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The elections for president of the United States are in full swing.
Due to the time difference, we do not start all at once like in Korea, and we follow the voting time set each week.
The winners scheme is expected to come out this afternoon or midnight as soon as ours, but there is a fear that if the votes are delayed due to the increase in vote-by-mail and the match between the ballots and the overwhelming party, it will emerge. extreme confusion.
I will connect to the International Department for more information. Reporter Kang Seong-ok!
Now it has been more than 16 hours since the voting began. Tell us what the current situation is.
[기자]The United States presidential election began in two places, including Dixville Notch, a small town in New Hampshire, beginning at 0 a.m. local time on the 3rd and at 2 p.m. our time on the 3rd.
After that, weekly voting begins between 5 and 8 a.m. local time on the 3rd and continues from 7 to 9 p.m. local time.
All voting ends today at 1:00 PM our time across California and 2:00 PM in Hawaii and Alaska.
In the case of the continental United States, there is a 3-hour time difference between East and West, so voting begins in the East first and votes are carried out sequentially from the Center to the West.
Voting is now running smoothly in most eastern and midwest states.
[앵커]Results were released for a small town in eastern New Hampshire, which was the first to vote for a late-night midnight ballot.
[기자]So is. Republican President Donald Trump won his first vote on Day 3 in a vote in two mountain towns in northern New Hampshire, where the first US presidential election began.
President Trump won 16 votes from two places, Dixville Notch and Millsfield, leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden with 10 votes to six.
Dixville Notch, with 12 residents and 5 voters, has been famous for being the first place to vote in presidential elections in the 60 years since 1960 when Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon met.
[앵커]The main interest is when will the exit investigations of the main media organizations come out? How do you forecast?
[기자]In the 2000s, the US presidential election exit poll was conducted jointly by a consortium of major media companies.
This year, four companies, CNN and NBC, ABC and CBS, are operating the ‘American Election Pool’.
Exit polls are not conducted in all 50 states, but in more than 20 major states, including competing states.
However, the results are not announced all at once.
This is because there are time differences by region and voting times themselves vary from state to state.
Therefore, while voting is ongoing in some states, exit poll results are published sequentially in states that have already completed.
[앵커]It is noted that Biden’s dominance in the US presidential election nationwide, but since the fierce battle unfolded in the last race, the exit investigation here is drawing more attention.
[기자]So is. At around 8 am our time today, the exit poll results for Indiana and Kentucky will be announced shortly after the polls close.
However, this place is not getting a lot of attention because it has a small constituency and traditionally has strong Republican support, so it doesn’t have a huge impact on the market.
The most focused areas of interest are the six competitive states that can make a difference.
These are Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Arizona.
The Florida exit poll, which has the most electoral votes among the race states, with 29 members, is expected to be announced as soon as voting closes at 9 a.m.
Additionally, around 9:30 a.m., an exit poll is also announced in Ohio, which ranks as another race state called Second Front.
There are 18 Ohio voters. The release of an exit poll after Florida is expected to be an important indicator of the early market trend.
Therefore, it is observed that if the investigation of the 6 races and the so-called 5 races of the second front goes out, the game of this presidential election will be masked to a certain extent.
Major US media outlets publish their own predictive survey results during the counting process, as well as exit polls. The results of the planned polls are expected to be released around the afternoon.
[앵커]The problem is that, as this election unfolds in a more divisive pattern than ever, public opinion in the United States is divided into extremes and the possibility of objection to the presidential election is being discussed, right?
[기자]So is. There are observations that the United States is likely to fall into the worst chaos after the presidential elections.
US President Donald Trump is concerned that the worst will happen if US President Donald Trump unilaterally declares victory early or enters a vote-by-mail lawsuit despite poor voting results. .
If this happens, the United States is expected to be engulfed in a post-civil war storm.
Trump has denied the possibility of an ‘early victory declaration’ externally, but is said to be preparing a lawsuit over the counting of votes by mail and absentee ballots.
If voting is delayed and candidates do not approve the results of the presidential elections until a judicial conclusion is reached, divided public opinion in the United States is expected to go further to the extreme.
Until now, I am YTN Sung-ok Kang from the International Department.
