{"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":"el-congreso-y-las-elecciones-presidenciales-preguntas-frecuentes-sobre-la-sesion-conjunta-del-6-de-enero","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articles\/congress-and-the-presidential-election-faq-regarding-january-6-joint-session\/","title":{"rendered":"EL CONGRESO Y LAS ELECCIONES PRESIDENCIALES: Preguntas frecuentes sobre la sesi\u00f3n conjunta del 6 de enero"},"template":"","class_list":["post-12178","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Your questions answered about Congress's January 6th meeting to officially declare President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris winners of the 2020 presidential election","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":10483}"],"related_issues":false,"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"On November 3, 2020, voters elected Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as our nation\u2019s next president and vice president by an electoral vote margin of 306 to 232 and a popular vote margin of more than 7.1 million votes.\r\n\r\nOn December 14, presidential electors met in their respective states, cast their ballots, then signed and certified their votes and sent them under seal to Washington, DC, directed to the President of the Senate (<em>es decir<\/em>, Vicepresidente Pence), como lo exige la Constituci\u00f3n de los Estados Unidos. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/amendmentxii\">12<sup>El<\/sup> Enmienda<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThe next step in our presidential election process is for Congress to meet on January 6 to count the electoral votes and officially announce the Biden and Harris as the winners.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>\u00bfCu\u00e1l es el proceso mediante el cual el Congreso cuenta los votos electorales?<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nEl <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/amendmentxii\">12<sup>El<\/sup> Enmienda<\/a>, junto con el <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/3\/chapter-1\">Ley de Recuento Electoral de 1887 (ECA)<\/a>, dispone que el d\u00eda 6 de enero, a partir de las 13:00 horas, ambas c\u00e1maras del Congreso se re\u00fanan en sesi\u00f3n conjunta en la C\u00e1mara de Representantes para el recuento de los votos electorales. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/12\/29\/sorry-president-trump-january-6-is-not-an-election-do-over\/\">El trabajo del Congreso<\/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>es decir<\/em>El vicepresidente Pence) act\u00faa como \u201cpresidente\u201d\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/12\/29\/pences-very-limited-options-challenge-bidens-win\/\">un papel estrictamente ceremonial<\/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>\u00bfQu\u00e9 sucede si los miembros del Congreso se oponen al resultado electoral de un estado?<\/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\">Se espera que decenas de miembros republicanos de la C\u00e1mara de Representantes se unan a una docena de senadores para objetar<\/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\">La ley federal establece<\/a> que si un estado hab\u00eda resuelto, para el 8 de diciembre, cualquier controversia o disputa con respecto a los resultados de las elecciones del 3 de noviembre, dicha determinaci\u00f3n del resultado electoral estatal ser\u00e1 concluyente y regir\u00e1 para el recuento de los votos electorales seg\u00fan lo dispuesto en la Constituci\u00f3n. Esto se conoce como la disposici\u00f3n de &quot;puerto seguro&quot; de la ECA. Cada estado <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2020\/12\/08\/wisconsin-only-state-miss-election-safe-harbor-deadline\/6496378002\/\">excepto 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>\u00bfQu\u00e9 sucede si el Congreso todav\u00eda est\u00e1 debatiendo las objeciones republicanas a los votos electorales el d\u00eda de la toma de posesi\u00f3n?<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nEs extremadamente improbable que esto suceda. Sin embargo, si ocurre, la <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/amendmentxx\">20<sup>El<\/sup> Enmienda<\/a> establece que \u201clos mandatos del Presidente y Vicepresidente terminar\u00e1n al mediod\u00eda del d\u00eda 20<sup>El<\/sup> d\u00eda de enero\u201d. Si al mediod\u00eda del 20 de enero<sup>El<\/sup> El Congreso todav\u00eda est\u00e1 debatiendo los votos electorales, luego el <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/3\/19\">Ley de Sucesi\u00f3n Presidencial<\/a> gobierna, con la presidenta de la C\u00e1mara de Representantes, Nancy Pelosi, primera en la fila para servir como presidenta interina hasta que se resuelva la disputa de las elecciones presidenciales."}},{"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\">Descargar estas preguntas frecuentes<\/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\/es\/articulos-2\/el-congreso-y-las-elecciones-presidenciales-preguntas-frecuentes-sobre-la-sesion-conjunta-del-6-de-enero\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\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\/es\/articulos-2\/el-congreso-y-las-elecciones-presidenciales-preguntas-frecuentes-sobre-la-sesion-conjunta-del-6-de-enero\/\" \/>\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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