According to officials, on the first day of early voting for a US election, the battleground US state of Georgia has never seen such a large turnout. Over 300,000 votes were cast in Tuesday’s swingsaid Gabriel Sterling, responsible for elections at X Platform.
According to him, the last record of first day voting in 2020 was 136,000 votes. Sterling spoke of “spectacular participation” without adjectives.
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Early voting has also begun in other US states, either by postal ballot or by appearing in person at polling stations that are already open. According to the University of Florida More than five million American voters have already exercised this option.
Polls agree A very close presidential electionIt pits Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris against Republican former President Donald Trump. At the same time, the election is seen as a directional decision for the future of American democracy.
Georgia played an important role in 2020
The US electoral system is that the president is elected indirectly by 538 electors who are sent to an Electoral College by individual states. Whoever has at least 270 of these electorates wins the election.
Due to this special, presidential election is expected Decided in a few statesThe outcome of the election is particularly close. Georgia, with its 16 electors, is one of seven particularly hotly contested states — so-called swing states.
Georgia is one of the states that played a major role in the outcome of the 2020 election. Trump lost the 2020 election in Georgia to incumbent Joe Biden. The Republican Party later announced the election results are fake. Trump has been indicted in Georgia and at the federal level for trying to alter the election results.
There is still controversy over the rules for counting votes in Georgia. On the one hand, the regulation decided by the Republican-leaning Commission on Elections is being challenged, not only that ballots are sent by machines, But then have to count by hand. It is also not yet clear whether election officials in individual districts have the authority to challenge the vote count results if there are concerns about the vote count results. (AFP, dpa)
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