On Tuesday, American voters began voting in several of the swing states, which are expected to be decisive for the outcome of the presidential election.
First, the polls opened in North Carolina. It happened at 06:30 local time, before the sun rose. Here it was 12:30 in Denmark.
Then followed the polls in Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Images from Scranton and Erie in Pennsylvania, among others, show voters queuing in the dark, waiting to be let into polling stations.
At 2:00 p.m. Danish time, voters began voting in the swing states of Arizona and Wisconsin, and at 4:00 p.m. the doors to the polling stations in the seventh and westernmost swing state, Nevada, open.
According to the opinion polls, there has been an extremely close race between the Democrats’ Kamala Harris and the Republicans’ Donald Trump leading up to the election.
Therefore, the focus is on the seven swing states.
To win the presidential election, a candidate must have the support of at least 270 electors. There are a total of 538 electors nationwide.
The candidate who receives the most votes in North Carolina wins all of the state’s 16 electoral divisions. In Georgia, there are also 16 electors up for grabs.
Michigan has 15 electors, while the top vote-getter in Pennsylvania gets 19. Pennsylvania is the swing state with the most electoral votes and is considered the most important of the seven states.
Finally, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada have 10, 11, and 6 electors, respectively.
It is not just in the swing states that the polling stations have opened. A large number of states on the American East Coast have offered the electorate within. Including New York and the big city of the same name.
The last polling stations open at 18.00 Danish time in the westernmost USA – namely on the island group of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. Parts of the Aleutian archipelago, which belong to Alaska, also close the polling stations at this time.
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Source: www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
