Although the results of the polls in some constituencies have not been confirmed, US President Donald Trump has announced his victory over Democrat challenger Joe Biden today.
As a result, it has raised concerns among Democrats as Trump will seek to dispute election results. This is because the dispute will raise some big issues for the country.
Preliminary polling data shows Democrats vote by mail in much larger numbers than Republicans. In states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that did not count votes until election day, preliminary results were allegedly in favor of Trump because they were slower to count the votes cast. As such, Democrats have predicted that Trump will declare victory earlier before the vote is fully counted.
It will result in a court process in the court regarding the voting procedure. Cases filed in each country will be referred to the U.S. Supreme Court, as was the Florida election in 2000, when Republican George W. Bush defeated Democrat Al Gore by only 537 votes in Florida after a court ruled to stop the recurrence.
Trump, who appointed Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court judge just days before the election, created a 6-3 conservative majority that could elect a president.
Moreover, the US President will not be elected by a majority of the popular vote. Under the Constitution, the candidate who won a majority of 538 votes, known as the Electoral College, became the next president. In 2016, Trump lost the nationally popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton but garnered 304 preferred votes for him.
Candidates who win the popular vote of each state usually get the voters of that state. This year, voters will meet on December 14 to vote. Both houses of Congress will meet on January 6 to count the votes and declare the winner.
Typically, governors will confirm decisions in their respective states and share that information with Congress.
Next, if no candidate gets a majority of votes will lead to a ‘contingent election’ based on the 12th Amendment of the Constitution, which allows the House of Representatives to elect the next president, while the Senate elects a vice president.
