After the vote: A timeline of how a president takes power

Election Day is typically the end of the contentious fight for the White House.With both Democrats and Republicans preparing for possible legal fights over the vote count, the post-election process for seating the winner is getting a closer look.The two-plus-months of often-ignored procedural steps are laid out by the U.S. Constitution and federal law and they're far more complicated than simply handing over the keys to the White House to the winner.