"Contingent election" will be held if electors failed to vote on 14 December to elect new President

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Electors to vote on 14 December to elect new U.S. President. If there are no results, "contingent election" will be held

Reporter : Zhang Qiling / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/11/16/a102988391.html / Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA

On 14 December 2020, the electors of all states in the United States will vote in each state to elect the new President of the United States. As there are still six states that are proceeding with litigation or recounting the votes, the result is undecided. Current statistics show that US President Trump will win 232 electoral votes and Biden may win 227 electoral votes, excluding states under recounting, election lawsuits and appeals for recount. However, if after the electors have cast their votes, if no candidate has won more than 270 electoral votes by 6 January 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives will hold a contingent election, with one state, one vote for the new American president.

According to live data from The Epoch Times, currently, Trump is expected to win 232 electoral votes and Biden may win 227 electoral votes. At the same time, the Trump camp filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada, requested a recount in Wisconsin, and Georgia is recounting votes.

"Constitutional Research" author Paul Engel on 14 November 2020 commented, "Strictly speaking, we have not yet elected the President. Our election is to elect electors."

On 14 December, electors from each state will vote in each state to elect the President of the United States. However, if by 6 January 2021, no candidate has won more than 270 electoral votes, then the US Congress will pass a contingency election to determine the outcome of the presidential election.

Paul Engel added, "Even if one of the candidates wins a relative majority instead of a majority (270 or more electoral votes), the House of Representatives decides who is the President, and the Senate decides the Vice President."

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Pelosi, has also issued a warning to the Democratic Party. She pointed out in a letter, “If Trump fails to win the vote, she hopes that the House of Representatives can elect her as President.” In the House of Representatives, the delegations of each state each have one vote. The elector that gets 26 votes will be the new President of the United States."

Paul Engel said, "But there is an interesting difference here. When the House of Representatives votes for the President, it is not decided by the members of the House of Representatives, but by the national delegation. In other words, Each state has only one vote to elect the President."

The President and Vice President are elected by the Senate and the House of Representatives, which means that the final President and Vice President may come from different political parties. Contingency elections are very rare. There are only three contingency elections in American history, all in the 1800s.

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Nancy Pelosi urging House Democrats not to join Biden administration

Content : Jack Davis

Democratic members of the House of Representatives are being told not to join a potential Biden administration as part of a strategy to protect the fragile Democratic majority in the House, according to a  new report published in The New York Post.

The message to stay put is being delivered by both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, according to the New York Post.

“Nancy is telling House members, ‘Now is not the time to leave,’” the Post reported it was told by a “Democratic Party official who’s been briefed by Democratic congressional reps.”

Hoyer, in fact, has told the transition team assembled by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden not to take from the Democrats in the House as it seeks to fill administration posts.

Although President Donald Trump has not conceded the election, Biden has begun forming a transition team based on projections from news organizations that he has won the White House.

Vacancies are filled by special elections, which would give Republicans a chance to gain even more seats than they did in the November 3 election, when the minority party picked up at least a dozen seats.

“The Biden administration has to be a lot more sensitive of where you come from if you’re looking at members of Congress,” Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia said, according to Politico. “We cannot afford to put any seats in jeopardy.”

Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri said a Biden White House recruiting House Democrats is “not gonna happen. That’s the political reality and most people are going to see that.”

“That would be a dumb decision to put somebody from a seat that we turn around and lose in a special election. We don’t have a lot of seats in the House and the Senate to spare,” Cleaver said.

During a recent call among House Democrats, the topic of working for Biden was discussed.

“It’s not helpful to talk about that,” one Democratic leader said on the call said, according to the Post.

“The feeling is: Don’t make rash decisions about going to the administration without first considering consequences to the caucus,” a Democratic insider reportedly said.

The source said Democrats believe their majority is “razor thin.”

Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill denied she was behind such an effort.

“This is completely false,” Hammill said. “The Speaker wants the full contribution of House Democrats to the Biden-Harris mandate and to the future represented in the Administration.”

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said Biden should choose whomever he wants.

“I understand that one or two vacancies can make a difference, but if President-elect Biden thinks there’s someone in the Senate who is going to serve him well and is the clear best choice then he should choose that person,” Murphy said. “I would hope that Vice President Biden would look to members of Congress to fill out some key slots.”

News (2) is first published in The Western Journal, https://www.westernjournal.com/report-nancy-pelosi-urging-house-democrats-not-join-biden-administration/

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2600 uncounted votes cast during Georgia vote recount, bulk of which is for Trump

The recount in Georgia has found that more than 2,600 votes in one conservative county were never tabulated.

According to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, more than 2,600 ballots in Floyd County were not counted because a county election official didn’t upload a ballot-scanning machine’s memory card.

Gabriel Sterling, the state’s voting systems manager, said Floyd County’s elections director should resign over such “an amazing blunder.”

“It’s not an equipment issue. It’s a person not executing their job properly,” he told the Journal Constitution. “This is the kind of situation that requires a change at the top of their management side.”

According to the AJC, the blunder cost President Trump about 800 net votes — 1,643 of the new votes were for him and 865 for former Vice President Joseph R. Biden.
Mr. Trump trailed Mr. Biden by about 14,000 votes statewide before the hand recount began.

Luke Martin, chairman of the Floyd County Republican Party, said the newly found votes had been cast in person during early voting at the Floyd County Administration Building.

News (3) is first published in The Washington Times, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/16/georgia-recount-finds-2600-uncounted-ballots-floyd/?fbclid=IwAR1qqY1qV6IkyH2MupGB5x9HqVhTT0mAmSRloLdMLMc7yDVV6o5ueiTZjhY.