THOMAS SLATER CENTER STARTS DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING FUND DRIVE
WESTCHESTER SPREADING CORONAVIRUS POSITIVE PERSONS AT RATE OF 768 NEW CASES A DAY OVER LAST 7 DAYS.
WPCNR CORONAVIRUS REPORT. January 3, 2020:
Sunday’s New York State Covid Tracker reports Westchester County testest 8,333 persons Saturday, the 2nd, and 591 persons were found to test positive, maintaining infection rate of positives at 7.1% compared to the Friday 7.9%.
In seven days since December 27 , 5,381 Westchesterites have tested positive, a rate of 768 New cases a day.
The Republican 11: What Effects Will the Refusal to Approve Electoral Results Have on Certification of the Electoral Vote? None.
WPCNR CAMPAIGN 2020. News and Comment By Stephen Rolandi January 4, 2021:
Editor’s Note: This weekend 11 Republican Senators announced they would not vote to certify the results of the Electoral College count unless certain state electoral results were recounted. WPCNR asked Stephen Rolandi to comment on what effects this action will have on as the U.S. Senate meets in Washington. Mr. Rolandi’s analysis follows:
Congress passed in 1887 The Electoral Count Act (see US Code Title 3, Chapter 1) which establishes procedures for the counting of the Electoral College votes by Congress following a Presidential election.
This is the last step in the process before a new President/V.P. takes office on January 20th.
The current Vice President (Mike Pence) along with Speaker Pelosi preside over the January 6th joint meeting of House and Senate.
VP Pence has little discretion in this meeting, and a Federal judge threw out a lawsuit brought by Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas to give Pence authority to unilaterally overturn the election results.
In the joint meeting, members of the House may “object’ to a state’s electoral votes. If one Senator agrees with the objection, the both houses adjourn to separately debate and vote on the objection.
Previous objections were raised in 2001 and 2017, but no Senators joined in the objection.
Hypothetically, if enough House and Senate members voted to sustain an objection, a given state’s electoral votes could be disqualified; if enough states were disqualified, then no candidate would have an electoral majority, thus forcing a contingent election by Congress. The last time this occurred for a Presidential election was in 1825.
It looks as if about 120 House members and 12 Senators will object to one or more state’s electoral votes, but that will not be enough (majority required) to disqualify any states.
The meeting on January 6th will be lively, no doubt. Biden and Harris will be certified as the winners by Congress.
In my view, this is nothing more than a ploy to keep the Trump base happy and is the opening salvo in the race for the 2024 GOP Presidential nomination.
Stephen Rolandi analyzed the Presidential Election for WPCNR predicting a Joseph Biden victory. Mr. Rolandi’s views of the Georgia Primary runoff Monday published earlier today are solely his own opinions and do not reflect the views of his employers, Pace University and City University of New York.
WESTCHESTER NEW COVID CASES HIT 1,000 POSITIVES A DAY PACE OF FIRST WAVE. INFECTION RATE: 7.9%–1,013 COUNTY PERSONS TEST POSITIVE ON JAN 1. Highest Total since April 9, 2020
WPCNR CORONAVIRUS REPORT. January 2, 2020 UPDATED JANUARY 3, 12 NOON EST:
Westchester County daily new positive infections numbered 1,013 on New Year’s Day.
This figure approaches the 1,100 positive cases of April 9 within 200 cases of the highest level of infections reached March 25, 2020 of the horrifying sweep of the first surge of the disease.
The hightest number of positive covid cases in Westchester County all of 2020 was 1,300 on March 25 2020 just after New York State shut down.
With the positives going up inexorably the month of December, and the evidence of higher infections within the possible infection period, with the New Years week of gatherings across the county still not over, the infections may continue at this higher rate for another two weeks.
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, speaking on Meet the Press said today January 3: “Rather than sit back and throw up our hands and say, ‘oh my goodness, it’s getting worse,’ we need to double down on some of the fundamental things that we talk about all the time — the uniform wearing of masks, the physical distancing and the avoiding of congregate settings and crowds, particularly indoors”
The total number of active cases in Westchester County as of Friday is 9,208, with 870 of those new cases new according to the Westchester County Dashboard today. It should be noted that those cases are not necessarily those that were discovered to be infected yesterday.