{"id":12178,"date":"2021-01-05T11:59:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T16:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/congress-and-the-presidential-election-faq-regarding-january-6-joint-session\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T11:59:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T16:59:55","slug":"kongress-und-prasidentschaftswahlen-faq-zur-gemeinsamen-sitzung-am-6-januar","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/articles\/congress-and-the-presidential-election-faq-regarding-january-6-joint-session\/","title":{"rendered":"KONGRESS UND PR\u00c4SIDENTSCHAFTSWAHL: FAQ zur gemeinsamen Sitzung am 6. 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Januar ab 13 Uhr beide Kammern des Kongresses zu einer gemeinsamen Sitzung im Repr\u00e4sentantenhaus zusammenkommen, um die Stimmen der Wahlleute auszuz\u00e4hlen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/12\/29\/sorry-president-trump-january-6-is-not-an-election-do-over\/\">Aufgabe des Kongresses<\/a> on January 6 is to make sure that the electoral votes received by Congress are the ones cast by electors appointed by the states\u2014authenticating the returns to ensure they are not counterfeit papers\u2014and then counting the votes.\r\n\r\nNeither the Constitution nor the ECA grant Congress power to scrutinize the validity of ballots cast by voters on Election Day. Election disputes are to be resolved by courts. President Trump and his allies have lost at least 60 lawsuits challenging the November 3 election results, failing to produce evidence to support their allegations.\r\n\r\nThe President of the Senate (<em>dh<\/em>, Vizepr\u00e4sident Pence) fungiert als \u201eVorsitzender\u201c \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/12\/29\/pences-very-limited-options-challenge-bidens-win\/\">eine rein zeremonielle Rolle<\/a>\u2014and opens \u201call the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes\u00a0\u2026\u00a0in the alphabetical order of the States.\u201d For each state, the Vice President will call for objections, which must be made in writing, clearly stating the ground, and signed by at least one Senator and one Member of the House (see below).\r\n\r\nAfter the votes of each state have been read and counted, the presiding officer announces whether any candidates have received the required majority votes (270) and, if so, the candidates are declared elected president and vice president.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Was passiert, wenn Kongressabgeordnete Einspruch gegen das Wahlergebnis eines Bundesstaates erheben?<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/senators-challenge-election\/2021\/01\/02\/81a4e5c4-4c7d-11eb-a9d9-1e3ec4a928b9_story.html\">Es wird erwartet, dass sich Dutzende republikanische Abgeordnete dem Widerstand von einem Dutzend Senatoren anschlie\u00dfen werden.<\/a> to the counting of electoral returns from six states in which President Trump has unsuccessfully challenged election results: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.\r\n\r\nWhen an objection is made to a specific state\u2019s electoral return, the Senate withdraws to its chamber and the House and Senate separately deliberate the objection, with debate on the objection capped at two hours. Following debate, the House and Senate vote in their respective chambers on the objection, they immediately reconvene in joint session and the presiding officer announces the decision on the objections. Congress may not move on to the consideration of the next state\u2019s votes until the previous objections have been finally disposed of.\r\n\r\nA state\u2019s electors cannot be rejected unless both the House and Senate agree to do so by a simple majority vote. Given Democratic control of the House, objections from Republicans on January 6 will not change the outcome of the election.\r\n\r\nFurther, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/3\/5\">Bundesgesetz sieht vor<\/a> Wenn ein Bundesstaat bis zum 8. Dezember alle \u201eKontroversen oder Streitigkeiten\u201c bez\u00fcglich seines Wahlergebnisses vom 3. November beigelegt hat, ist diese Feststellung des Wahlergebnisses endg\u00fcltig und ma\u00dfgebend f\u00fcr die Ausz\u00e4hlung der Wahlstimmen gem\u00e4\u00df der Verfassung. Dies ist als \u201eSafe Harbor\u201c-Bestimmung des ECA bekannt. Jeder Bundesstaat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2020\/12\/08\/wisconsin-only-state-miss-election-safe-harbor-deadline\/6496378002\/\">au\u00dfer Wisconsin<\/a> reportedly met the December 8 \u201csafe harbor\u201d deadline. (Wisconsin had a legal challenge pending on December 8, but the litigation was resolved in time for electors to cast their ballots on December 14.)\r\n\r\nThe federal law \u201csafe harbor\u201d provision requires Congress to count electoral votes sufficient to confirm the Biden\/Harris victory, even in the presence of objections by House and Senate Members. The electoral votes from states that met the \u201csafe harbor\u201d are presumed valid and must be accepted by the House and Senate.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Was passiert, wenn der Kongress am Tag der Amtseinf\u00fchrung immer noch \u00fcber die Einw\u00e4nde der Republikaner gegen die Wahlstimmen debattiert?<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nDies ist \u00e4u\u00dferst unwahrscheinlich. Sollte es jedoch passieren, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/amendmentxx\">20<sup>th<\/sup> \u00c4nderung<\/a> sieht vor, dass die Amtszeiten des Pr\u00e4sidenten und des Vizepr\u00e4sidenten am Mittag des 20.<sup>th<\/sup> Tag im Januar.\u201c Wenn am Mittag des 20. Januar<sup>th<\/sup> Der Kongress debattiert noch \u00fcber die Wahlstimmen, dann <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/3\/19\">Gesetz zur Pr\u00e4sidentennachfolge<\/a> regiert, wobei die Sprecherin des Repr\u00e4sentantenhauses, Nancy Pelosi, als erste in Frage kommt, um als amtierende Pr\u00e4sidentin zu fungieren, bis der Streit um die Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen beigelegt ist."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<a class=\"button1\" role=\"button\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Congress-and-the-Presidential-Election-FAQ-1.5.2021.pdf\">Laden Sie diese FAQ herunter<\/a>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: FAQ Regarding January 6 Joint Session - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/artikel-2\/kongress-und-prasidentschaftswahlen-faq-zur-gemeinsamen-sitzung-am-6-januar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: FAQ Regarding January 6 Joint Session\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/artikel-2\/kongress-und-prasidentschaftswahlen-faq-zur-gemeinsamen-sitzung-am-6-januar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/congress-and-the-presidential-election-faq-regarding-january-6-joint-session\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/congress-and-the-presidential-election-faq-regarding-january-6-joint-session\/\",\"name\":\"CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: FAQ Regarding January 6 Joint Session - 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