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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 at once like in Korea, but we follow the voting time set each week.
The winners scheme is expected to come out this afternoon or tomorrow morning as soon as our time comes, but there is concern that extreme confusion will arise if the delay in the count due to increased voting by mail and the closed match.
I will connect to the International Department for more information. Reporter Kang Seong-ok!
Now it has been more than 14 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 East first and voting takes place sequentially from Center to West.
Voting is now running smoothly in most eastern and midwest states.
[앵커]When the vote started, what did Trump and Biden do?
[기자]US President Donald Trump said he was feeling great and sent a message of optimism for a victory greater than four years ago.
According to the political outlet The Hill, President Trump appeared on Fox News on the morning of 3pm local time and said: “We feel very good” and “I hope to exceed the 306 voters we got four years ago.”
In the United States presidential elections, there are 538 electoral voters assigned by state, of which 270, the majority, are elected.
US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden began his first official itinerary with a visit to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on the morning of Election Day 3.
Pennsylvania is also home to Biden’s hometown, but he is said to have shown a strong determination to win in a situation where he emerged as the most important party for this presidential election.
Biden will then visit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and, in the evening, speak to the public at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, where he resides.
Pennsylvania, where Biden’s predominant ‘Rustbelt’ takes place, is one of the main battlegrounds for both candidates.
[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.
However, since FOX Broadcasting and AP News, who had participated in the past, withdrew in 2017, this year, four companies including CNN and NBC, ABC and CBS form and operate the ‘American Election Pool’.
Exit polls are not conducted in all 50 states, but in more than 20 major states, including competing states.
During the 2016 presidential election, exit polls were conducted in all 28 states and it is expected to be similar this year.
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 exit investigation of the matches of the six races and the so-called second frontal race coincide, the victory of this presidential election will be masked to some extent.
Major US media outlets publish their own predictive survey results during the counting process and exit polls. It is noted that the results of the planned surveys will be published 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.
Pennsylvania, a major owner of the competition, has also extended the validity period for postmarked mail ballots by several days on Election Day.
Trump has denied this externally, but internally he is said to be preparing a lawsuit in connection with the counting of vote-by-mail ballots and in Pennsylvania’s absence.
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.
The likelihood of America falling into extreme chaos and divisions that it has never experienced since the presidential election will increase.
Until now, I am YTN Sung-ok Kang from the International Department.
