Anonymous wrote:From what I have read she is a responsible, ethical person. And if there were some law requiring her to conclude Biden was won (which, of course, he has), there would be no need to invest this duty in a particular office. I won't say it's not a big deal, because to all accounts this is highly unusual and nothing like bush v gore, but she will get there. Helps of course that Biden has experience in governance not just as a Senator but as VP. As a subplot of the series, I'm willing right now to assume this is a fairly minor one.

I would like to see more Rudy drunken comic relief, though.

Tangential--if this were a tv series, would it have been an easier to keep up with all the plot threads? I mean. Breaking Bad was manageable, by season 3 of Billions I was confused and didn't want to re-binge the previous season to refresh myself. The Trump Era--impossible, I would say. I'm amazed at the people who can follow all the strings between the pushpins.

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Anonymous wrote:When are the states required to officially announce the winners? Don't they have election commissions, a process?

There is a process, but the final certification of the electoral college vote doesn’t happen until around January 3. If Biden has to wait that long to fully launch his transition, we will lose valuable time for addressing the pandemic (plus the economy and other pressing issues).

Actually, states need to resolve the election counts and court cases and legal challenges by December 8. That is when the totals need to be finalized and the latest date when the GSA administrator can accept the result and move forward.

December 8 is when the state election boards need to certify their election counts and report to the state legislature. The state legislatures would then compile their slate of electors (usually those are completed before the elections are certified) and submit to the governor for signature. December 14, the electors report to the state capitols and actually cast their votes. The electoral votes need to be sent to Congress by December 23. January 3 is when the 117th Congress will be seated. January 6 is when the new Congress will count the state votes.

But essentially the GSA administrator has a deadline of December 8 when all court and legal challenges need to be resolved and election results delivered to state capitols.

I am well aware of all of the full timeline. With Republicans raising the prospect of faithless electors, though, that will give the GSA administrator over to delay until January.

I really hope she won’t do that, but I have no confidence anymore. I went to law school with her and never would have thought of her as someone who would play Trump’s game for even this long, so I don’t know what to think of her anymore.

Anonymous wrote:Now that Biden's presidency will be tarnished, Karl Rove writes things suggesting moving on with the Transition in the WSJ.

Anonymous wrote:Great, one republican senator has a tiny pair of balls.

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Anonymous wrote:When you've lost Newsmax...

THIS is really interesting. Seems to me that there's an effort to just do an end run around Trump.

Anonymous wrote:When you've lost Newsmax...

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