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Why does it show four months of countdown if voting's in a bit more than two months?
by d33 10y ago
Why does it show four months of countdown if voting's in a bit more than two months?
- tempestn 10y agoBecause the sitting president doesn't leave office on voting day. The actual hand-off (Inauguration Day) doesn't happen until January.
- ianai 10y agoIf I remember right pardon day is right before the transition.
- vidarh 10y agoEffectively, in that it's "tradition" for the president to issue a bunch of pardons right before leaving office, largely because it's the last chance to do so, partly because at that point it's too late for any political opponents to use it against him. But the sitting president can issue pardons at any point during the presidency.