Today, December 14, the 538 electors who make up the Electoral College will meet in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to cast their ballots for the next president and vice president of the United States. Most electors from each state will go to their respective state capitol buildings to cast ballots at the time specified by state law.
Most states provide free access to live streams. You can visit your state website and look for the live stream, usually offered by the state legislative body.You can also watch live coverage on C-SPAN of the Electoral College votes in several key battleground
states. The coverage began at 10 am ET with Indiana. Depending on the state, most votes will happen between 11 am and 2 pm local time. A few states do not have set times for ballots to be cast.
All times are local.
Alabama: Noon
Alaska: 11 a.m.
Arizona: 2 p.m.
Arkansas: 10 a.m.
California: 2 p.m.
Colorado: Noon
Connecticut: Noon
District of Columbia: No time set
Delaware: No time set
Florida: Noon
Georgia: Noon
Hawaii: 2 p.m.
Idaho: Noon
Illinois: 10 a.m.
Indiana: 10 a.m.
Iowa: No time set
Kansas: Noon
Kentucky: Noon
Louisiana: No time set
Maine: 2 p.m.
Maryland: No time set
Massachusetts: 3 p.m.
Michigan: 2 p.m.
Minnesota: Noon
Mississippi: No time set
Missouri: 2 p.m.
Montana: 2 p.m.
Nebraska: 2 p.m.
Nevada: 2 p.m.
New Hampshire: Noon
New Jersey: 3 p.m.
New Mexico: 11 a.m.
New York: Noon
North
Carolina: Noon
North Dakota: 1 p.m.
Ohio: Noon
Oklahoma: 10 a.m.
Oregon: No time set
Pennsylvania: Noon
Rhode Island: Noon
South Carolina: 11 a.m.
South Dakota: Noon
Tennessee: No time set
Texas: 2 p.m.
Utah: Noon
Vermont: No time set
Virginia: Noon
Washington: Noon
West Virginia: No time set
Wisconsin: Noon
Wyoming: Noon
KEY DATES BETWEEN NOW AND INAUGURATION DAY
Dec. 23 - Electoral votes must arrive on Capitol Hill: The USPS has nine days to deliver the certified electoral votes from their states to the Senate in Washington, DC.
Jan. 3 - New Congress sworn in: Members of the House and Senate take the oath of office at noon in the official start of the 117th Congress.
Jan. 6 - Electoral votes counted: Members of the House and Senate meet in the House chamber. Vice President Mike Pence in his role as president of the Senate presides over the session and the electoral votes are read and counted in alphabetical order by two appointees each from the House and Senate. They give their tallies to Vice President Pence, who announces the results. If there are objections, the House and Senate consider them separately to decide how to count those
votes. There are 538 electoral votes: one for each congressman and senator plus three for Washington, DC. If no candidate gets 270 votes, the 435 members of the House decide the election. The House has until noon on January 20 to pick the president and each state gets a vote. If they can't, it becomes the vice president or the next person in the line of presidential succession.
Jan. 20 - Inauguration Day: A new president takes the oath of office at noon. In a disputed election, if the House has not chosen a president but the Senate has chosen a vice president, the vice president-elect becomes acting president until the House makes a choice. And if there's no president-elect and no vice president-elect, the House appoints a president until one is chosen.
