[트럼프 재집권] What steps will be taken until the official inauguration in January next year?

The election is confirmed only after an Electoral College vote… Federal General Services Administration provides ‘government transition’ service

Electoral College vote on December 17 → President and Vice President-elect announced at the Senate and House of Representatives meetings on January 6 next year

Former US President Trump declares victory

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(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Seong-min = With former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, elected in the November 5 U.S. presidential election, attention is focused on what procedures will be followed until the inauguration of the 47th President on January 20th next year.

The U.S. presidential election uses a kind of indirect election system through the Electoral College, so several procedures remain even after voters cast their ballots and the votes are counted.

The General Services Administration (GSA) immediately provides office space and various services to the ‘provisional president-elect’.

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It is a service for the transition of power, and an orientation hosted by GSA is provided for the provisional president-elect to carry out his duties as president, and a confidential information briefing related to national security is also provided to the provisional president-elect.

Once the results of the vote count in each state are confirmed, the list of electoral college members will be confirmed on December 11 according to the number of electoral college assigned to each state.

The electoral college is composed by each state’s political party. For this reason, in the November 5 presidential election, voters will vote not for the presidential candidate but for the electoral college formed by the political party.

The Electoral College vote takes place on the Tuesday following the second Wednesday in December. For this year’s presidential election, it is December 17th. At this time, the electoral college of each state gathers in that state’s legislature and votes.

Until the Electoral College votes are cast, the political parties of both candidates will ‘crack down’ on the Electoral College. In some states, there is no legal way to stop the electoral college from ignoring the results of the voter’s vote and voting for the candidate they want.

The results of the Electoral College vote are sent to the Federal Congress by December 25, and are counted and certified at a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives on January 6 of the following year.

As the president of the Senate, the incumbent vice president presides over the vote count and declares who the next president and vice president-elect will be.

This is the general procedure until the new President and Vice President take office on January 20th.

In this case, there is no problem because former President Trump’s victory was virtually confirmed, but it becomes a bit more complicated if no candidate receives votes from 270, the majority of the 538 electoral college members.

In this presidential election, which has continued to be a very close race, there was early interest in what would happen if both candidates secured 269 electoral votes each.

If no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the House of Representatives elects the president. However, the 435 members of the House of Representatives do not vote individually, but vote at the state level, and the voting method is determined by each individual state. In the case of Washington DC, it has three electoral votes, but since there is no state representative in the House of Representatives, it is not eligible to vote in this case.

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