North Carolina’s election board additionally licensed the state’s presidential vote totals on Tuesday, awarding the state’s 15 electoral votes to President Donald Trump.
MeSlop had already projected Biden because the winner in each Pennsylvania, the place he was main by greater than 81,000 votes, and in Nevada, the place Biden gained by greater than 33,000 votes, in accordance with the secretary of state’s workplace.
“Right this moment @PAStateDept licensed the results of the November 3 election in Pennsylvania for president and vice chairman of america. As required by federal regulation, I’ve signed the Certificates of Ascertainment for the slate of electors for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,” Gov. Tom Wolf wrote in a Twitter put up.

Wolf went onto thank election officers for their work.

“Once more, I wish to thank the election officers who’ve administered a good and free election throughout an extremely difficult time in our commonwealth and nation’s historical past. Our election employees have been below fixed assault and they’ve carried out admirably and honorably,” Wolf added.

Pennsylvania’s certification comes after the state’s 67 counties licensed precinct results to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Kathy Boockvar.

Boockvar stated that the counties submitted their presidential vote totals late Monday.

Showing earlier than the Nevada Supreme Courtroom on Tuesday morning, Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske formally licensed Nevada’s 2020 common election results. Cegavske, a Republican, didn’t verbally acknowledge Biden the winner of the presidential race. The Nevada Supreme Courtroom signed the canvassing for every county previous to official certification of the results.

States are scheduled to certify their results by December 8, forward of the Electoral School assembly on December 14.

Tuesday’s certifications adopted a dramatic assembly on Monday of Michigan’s state election board, which additionally voted to certify election results for Biden after one of many board’s two Republican members determined to abstain.

That triggered the state of formal transition proceedings by the federal Normal Companies Administration.

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MeSlop’s Augie Martin, Dianne Gallagher and Devon Sayers contributed to this report.