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US Presidential Election Remains Undecided

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - The U.S. presidential election remained unsettled
   Thursday, with Democratic challenger Joe Biden nearing an Electoral
   Collegemajority and President DonaldTrump demanding that thevotecountbe
   stoppedwhile Republicansare filinglawsuits alleging vote tabulation
   irregularities.

   Biden leads in the Electoral College count 253-214, with a majority of
   270 needed to claim the presidency for a new four-year term. Butvote
   counting is still underway infour states that will decide the
   election--Georgia and Pennsylvania in the eastern part ofthe countryand
   the adjoining Western states of Arizona and Nevada.

   Where things stand

   IFRAME:
   [1]https://projects.voanews.com/us-election-map-2020/?lang=en&voa

   Trump is ahead in Georgia and Pennsylvania and Biden is leadingin the
   other two, withboth oftheir leads indecisive.

   In the U.S. Electoral College system, the popular vote winner in each
   state'¯--'¯with two exceptions, Maine and Nebraska'¯--'¯receives'¯all
   of'¯that state's electoral votes, which are allocated'¯on the basis
   of'¯population.'¯

   If Biden can hold hisvoteleads in Arizona, with its 11 electors, and
   Nevada with six, hewill reach the 270 Electoral College majority and
   would become the country's 46thpresidentat his inauguration in January,
   no matter the outcome in Georgia and Pennsylvania.

   Trump needs to hold all the states he is leading in and pick up either
   Nevada or Arizona, where Biden currently holds the lead.

   The vote count is close in all four states. In Georgia, with 16
   electoral votes at stake, Trump holds a15,000-vote lead with more
   than50,000ballots yet to be counted.

   In Pennsylvania, Trump leads by 116,000 votes,but a bigger total
   remains to be counted. Twentyelectoral votesareatstake.

   Bidennowleads by12,000votes in Nevada, whichhas six electors,andby
   68,000inArizona, which has11 electors.Many more votes are yet to be
   counted in both states.

References

   1. https://projects.voanews.com/us-election-map-2020/?lang=en&voa

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