{"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":"congres-et-election-presidentielle-questions-frequentes-concernant-la-session-conjointe-du-6-janvier","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/congress-and-the-presidential-election-faq-regarding-january-6-joint-session\/","title":{"rendered":"CONGR\u00c8S ET \u00c9LECTION PR\u00c9SIDENTIELLE : FAQ concernant la session conjointe du 6 janvier"},"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>c&#039;est \u00e0 dire<\/em>, vice-pr\u00e9sident Pence), comme l&#039;exige la Constitution am\u00e9ricaine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/amendmentxii\">12<sup>\u00e8me<\/sup> Amendement<\/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>Quel est le processus par lequel le Congr\u00e8s compte les votes \u00e9lectoraux ?<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nLe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/amendmentxii\">12<sup>\u00e8me<\/sup> Amendement<\/a>, avec le <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/3\/chapter-1\">Loi sur le d\u00e9compte des voix de 1887 (ECA)<\/a>, pr\u00e9voient que le 6 janvier, \u00e0 partir de 13 heures, les deux chambres du Congr\u00e8s se r\u00e9uniront en session conjointe \u00e0 la Chambre pour compter les votes \u00e9lectoraux. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/12\/29\/sorry-president-trump-january-6-is-not-an-election-do-over\/\">Le travail du Congr\u00e8s<\/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>c&#039;est \u00e0 dire<\/em>, le vice-pr\u00e9sident Pence) fait office de \u00ab pr\u00e9sident \u00bb \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/12\/29\/pences-very-limited-options-challenge-bidens-win\/\">un r\u00f4le strictement c\u00e9r\u00e9moniel<\/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>Que se passe-t-il si les membres du Congr\u00e8s s\u2019opposent au rapport \u00e9lectoral d\u2019un \u00c9tat ?<\/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\">Des dizaines de membres r\u00e9publicains de la Chambre des repr\u00e9sentants devraient se joindre \u00e0 une douzaine de s\u00e9nateurs pour s&#039;opposer<\/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 loi f\u00e9d\u00e9rale pr\u00e9voit<\/a> que si un \u00c9tat avait r\u00e9solu avant le 8 d\u00e9cembre toute \u00ab controverse ou contestation \u00bb concernant les r\u00e9sultats de son \u00e9lection du 3 novembre, cette d\u00e9termination du r\u00e9sultat de l&#039;\u00e9lection de l&#039;\u00c9tat \u00ab sera concluante et r\u00e9gira le d\u00e9compte des votes \u00e9lectoraux comme le pr\u00e9voit la Constitution \u00bb. C&#039;est ce qu&#039;on appelle la disposition de \u00ab sph\u00e8re de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 \u00bb de l&#039;ECA. Chaque \u00c9tat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2020\/12\/08\/wisconsin-only-state-miss-election-safe-harbor-deadline\/6496378002\/\">sauf le 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>Que se passera-t-il si le Congr\u00e8s d\u00e9bat encore des objections r\u00e9publicaines aux votes \u00e9lectoraux le jour de l\u2019investiture ?<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nIl est extr\u00eamement improbable que cela se produise. Cependant, si cela se produit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/amendmentxx\">20<sup>\u00e8me<\/sup> Amendement<\/a> pr\u00e9voit que \u00ab les mandats du pr\u00e9sident et du vice-pr\u00e9sident prendront fin \u00e0 midi le 20<sup>\u00e8me<\/sup> jour de janvier. \u00bb Si \u00e0 midi le 20 janvier<sup>\u00e8me<\/sup> Le Congr\u00e8s d\u00e9bat toujours des votes \u00e9lectoraux, alors le <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/3\/19\">Loi sur la succession pr\u00e9sidentielle<\/a> gouverne, avec la pr\u00e9sidente de la Chambre des repr\u00e9sentants, Nancy Pelosi, premi\u00e8re sur la liste pour occuper le poste de pr\u00e9sidente par int\u00e9rim jusqu&#039;\u00e0 ce que le diff\u00e9rend sur l&#039;\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle soit r\u00e9solu."}},{"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\">T\u00e9l\u00e9chargez cette FAQ<\/a>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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