| 14. Dezember ist der späteste Termin für Klarheit |  |
>... und die Military Ballots erst Freitag 17h Uhrzeits "fällig" sind und dann gezählt werden, wirds doch auch für diesen Staat frühestens morgen ein Ergebnis geben, oder? Ich bin echt baff wie diese Wahl abläuft, also auch rein organisatorisch.
Ganz offiziell ist alles erst am 14. Dezember final und der Streit muss am 8. Dezember beigelegt werden. Warum? Weil:
According to federal law, each state will have until Dec. 8 this year to resolve any “controversy or contest” concerning the appointment of its slate of electors under its own state laws. That effectively gives states more than a month after Election Day to settle any challenges to their popular votes, certify a result and award their electoral votes. If they do so by this “safe harbor” date, Congress is bound to respect the result. (The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2000 ruling in Bush v. Gore involved whether Florida was properly applying its own recount rules, and whether those rules ran afoul of the Constitution’s equal-protection guarantee.)
The electors will meet in their respective states on Dec. 14 – officially, the Monday after the second Wednesday in December – and formally cast their votes for president and vice president. The Constitution expressly forbids them from meeting as a single nationwide group, a provision the Framers put in to reduce the chances of mischief. The electors are supposed to vote for the candidates whose name they were elected under – in fact, 32 states (plus D.C.) have laws intended to bind the electors to their candidates. The Supreme Court this summer unanimously upheld such laws.