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The Presidential transition is within a few days of one month after the voting in the election that elects the President (and even less time after those votes a
by dragonwriter 1y ago
The Presidential transition is within a few days of one month after the voting in the election that elects the President (and even less time after those votes are counted.)
It’s about 2½ months after the elections in which the people that elect the President are elected, but that’s a whole separate election.
- swores 1y agoYou're pedantically correct, but in a way that's irrelevant unless the Electoral College sees its electors vote against the wishes expressed by the public in the public elections (which is now legally restricted from happening in the majority of states anyway). Realistically, unless there's either effectively a coup by the Electoral College, or an incredibly close election that needs to wait for recounts or a runoff (second) public election in one or more states to know who the president will be, the president is known after the public election even if the paperwork for the votes that technically elect them don't happen until a couple of months later. So I'd consider the comment you replied to to be more true than yours despite yours being technically more accurate.