Political commentators are warning Americans not to expect to learn on election night who won the 2020 presidential election because it will take days or even weeks to count the expected surge in mail-in ballots.
Actually, we will be lucky if we know who won by January 20, 2021, which is Inauguration Day.
If a state finishes its count, any recounts and judicial review by December 8, then Congress must accept that state's electoral vote as conclusive.
The states report their electoral vote counts to Congress, which counts them at a joint session on January 6, 2021 and declares the result.
If the electoral process seizes up this way, no winner will likely be declared by Inauguration Day.
ADVERTISEMENT. In another war game scenario, Biden decisively won the popular vote but narrowly lost in the Electoral College, the third time this has happened to Democrats in the last 20 years.
The furious American public will rise up and demand an end to the Electoral College so that the presidency can be decided by the popular vote, with ample time to count it, and we will never again have to go through an electoral nightmare.
Sunday, August 30, 2020
Will we even know by Inauguration Day who won the election?
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