Biden Needs These 3 Things To Become President

On Nov 10, 2020

Joe Biden is now the president-elect, but here are three things that must happen first before he becomes president.

Here’s what you need to know.

Joe Biden

Obi criticizes work on Lagos-Calabar Highway amid protests

Several residents and a pastor were kidnapped by a group of…

For many, it feels like Joe Biden is already the president. However, before that happens, here are 3 things that must happen first for Biden to go from president-elect to president:

1. States must provide an official vote count

The news networks, newspapers and online media companies have declared Joe Biden the 46th president of the United States.
Despite this announcement, each state may have its own laws with respect to recounts or election challenges. President Donald Trump has vowed to challenge the election results.
Under federal law, each state must provide an official vote count.
Based on this official vote count, states will appoint electors who will vote for the president.
The deadline to appoint electors is December 8, 2020.

ALSO READ One Dies as Cultists Take Over Rivers Varsity

2. Electors vote for president

Although voters effectively “vote” for president, they specifically vote for a group of electors, which comprise the Electoral College.
There are 538 electors, which is equal to 100 U.S. Senators, 435 members of the House of Representatives and three electors from Washington, D.C.
Typically, electors vote for the candidate who won the popular vote in their respective state. Washington, D.C. and 33 states require the elector to vote for the candidate who won the popular vote in that state (or in Washington’s case, district).
Hypothetically, although rare, electors could vote for another candidate or not vote at all.
On December 14, 2020, electors vote by paper ballot in their respective state.

3. Congress counts the electoral votes

The paper ballots from electors are delivered to Congress by December 23, 2020.
On January 6, 2021, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives hold a joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes.
To become the next president, Biden needs 270 electoral votes.
Traditionally, the President of the U.S. Senate (who is also the U.S. vice president), announces the winner based on a final count of the electoral votes.

ALSO READ Breaking: Sunday Igboho absconds from Nigeria, nabbed in Cotonou

Inauguration

The presidential inauguration will be held January 20, 2021, and is held every four years at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Kamal Harris is sworn in first as vice president, and then Joe Biden is sworn in as president at about 12 pm.

Source: Forbes