Does GSA get to "deem" anyone the winner of the 2020 Presidential Election?

Of course not. Neither do Decision Desks or Big Media.

Earlier this week County Examiner encouraged readers to become familiar with the Presidential Transition Act. The Act governs reponsibility and oversight of a Presidential transition through a law passed by Congress in 1963.

The General Services Administration aka GSA oversees this transition process.

The WaPo signalled to its readers the GSA needs to sign off on--- aka make a formal declaration of the winner of the Presidential race. Signoff by the GSA not only releases tens of millions of dollars to support the transition team, it also allows access to classified information and the ability to issue national security clearances.

So a cowardly anonymous source within the Biden transition team is threatening to sue the GSA because the GSA hasn't "deemed" Biden the winner. (CE cannot independently confirm this threat).

According to Newsmax:

GSA Administrator Emily Murphy, a 2017 Trump appointee, has not made a determination about who won, and the GSA is not yet allowing Bidens' team to access resources needed for the transition process.

The resources include access to $6.3 million appropriated by Congress to support the transition. The GSAs refusal also blocks the Biden team from classified information for incoming national security officials, security clearances and background investigations for possible nominees or officials, and office space and equipment.

In addition, with the GSA refusing (as the votes have not been certified -ed)  to acknowledge Biden as the winner, the team is not able to hold State Department-facilitated calls with foreign leaders who are already starting to contact the former vice president, the team claims. 

The Office of the Director for National Intelligence confirmed in a statement to ABC News that it has not yet made contact with Biden's team because the GSA has not ascertained him the race's winner. 

"ODNI follows the statutory direction provided in the Presidential Transition Act, which requires ascertainment of the candidate by the administrator of GSA prior to supporting a potential presidential transition," a spokesman said in the statement. "ODNI would not have contact with any transition team until notified by the GSA Administrator."

This is one of mounting signals (see here and here ) Big Media is panicking over growing interest, attention and reporting on the Electoral College Timelines and the Presidential Transition Act.

Then there's the growing media attention on county, state election officials reporting they will go to recounts or have experienced "magic votes" caused by machine "glitches".

Bottom line:

• The states' Secretary of State have not certified the results of the 2020 Presidential election. That process is underway and has a deadline of December 14th in accordance with the Electoral College Timeline.

• The GSA Adminstrator cannot in good faith --sign off, aka "deem" anyone--neither President Trump nor Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 Presidential Election.

Big Media knows this. 

Remember: "once you tell the lie and repeat the lie, you must double-down and keep telling the lie."