The events are playing out in the exact order that they have played out in every election since WW2.
Yup, and even before then...
Your refusal to accept the events doesn't change the simple fact that the winner has been decided
Nope. There is no winner at this moment. The election remains indeterminate.
and the electoral college vote is known at this point by everyone that is of sound mind.
No, it is not. They have not voted yet, genius... How can you know the EC vote before the EC itself is even chosen by each State Legislature, let alone before they actually cast their votes?
On election day, voters voted.
Yup.
On election day and the days after the votes were counted and submitted to the state office in charge of elections
The votes reported to the state were released to the public and reported on by the media.
Yup. This is a part of the process that remains indeterminate, due to alleged fraud and disregard for State election laws...
Based on the reported votes the media declared a winner in each state.
The media can "declare" whatever they wish to, but their "declaration" has absolutely no effect on the election itself. They don't have the power to decide who wins/loses elections. State Legislatures hold the power of choosing which elector slate to send forward.
(In no election has this resulted in a state changing the declared winner after the winner was universally projected by the media.)
WRONG. The media declared Al Gore to be the winner of the 2000 election, only to have to backtrack on that declaration and to later discover that George Bush actually ended up winning. Same with the Dewey & Truman election. Media declared Dewey the winner, but the winner actually ended up being Truman.
Each state certified the vote totals. (No certified vote total where a candidate has led by 500 votes or more has ever been overturned.)
State Legislatures have yet to certify...
The states then declared the electoral college voters based on the certified vote totals. (No state since WW2 has ever rescinded its declared slate of electoral college voters.)
This is the part of the process that we are still awaiting... We don't know which elector slates the State Legislatures will decide to send forward.
The only thing that is left is the following which is a foregone conclusion based on the reality of what has already occurred.
The process is still playing out. You envision one way of it playing out, but it might not play out like that.
The electoral college voters will meet and cast their ballots in support of the candidate that won the majority of the certified vote.
You don't know how they will vote.
Congress will open the sealed ballots and count them.
Indeed they will.
There will be no surprise because the electoral college voters are chosen to support the candidate that won the majority of the popular vote as certified in each state.
So there was "no surprise" in 2016 when seven electors voted for neither Trump nor Clinton?
You seem to at least have SOME clue about how the process works, yet you're getting most of the important details completely wrong...
