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Expected closing time of polling stations – Source: REUTERS – Vietnameseization: BAO DUY
Democratic candidate Joe Biden once claimed that if he won in Florida, the game would be over. But according to the Brookings Institution, if it’s a narrow win, this year’s election will remain dramatic until the end.
The races of President Donald Trump and candidate Joe Biden are expected to take up to a week to determine the final winner. For states that have already counted early mail ballots, results will be announced the evening of November 3 (morning 4-11 VN time).
Florida it is the best place to observe both a large number of electoral votes and the first state to start counting votes by mail: 22 days before the election. Among the states that use Eastern Standard Time, Florida is the state with the ability to publish the preliminary results closest to the final result.
The last polling place in Florida closes at 20 o’clock local, that is 8:00 am 4-11 according to Vietnamese time, but most polling stations have stopped working an hour earlier. The unofficial results will be available shortly after.
Many US states will not release vote counting results the night of November 3 (US time), largely because there are more mail ballots that need to be counted than usual.
In 2016, Trump scored a narrow victory in Flordia when the popular vote rate was just 1.2% higher than his rival Hillary Clinton. With 29 votes electorateIf Trump or Biden won in Florida, the other person’s straight door was almost too narrow.
North Carolina is the next state to consider. The final voting point will close at 7:30 p.m. local time, that is 7:30 am 4-11 (time VN). This state with 15 electoral votes began to count the ballots by mail 14 days before the election.
If the North Carolina numbers were leaning towards Biden, that would be a good beacon for the Democratic nominee.
Sticker for voters who voted in Ohio – Photo: REUTERS
Ohio It’s also worth watching after candidate Biden’s last minute battle. Polling stations in Ohio were closed at the same time as in North Carolina.
The state has 18 electoral votes and has a tradition of successively voting for candidates of the same party on two consecutive occasions. In 2016, Trump won Ohio by a difference of 8.07 percentage points.
Illinois with 20 electoral votes will close at the end of the voting 8:00 am 4-11 (Time VN). The vote count and announcement will be quick. If the rate of support for Trump is higher than the preliminary results, according to the New York Times, it will be “too early to name the winner.”
Illinois receives ballots by mail until November 17, provided the postmark shows the voter mailed them by November 3. Biden proclaims that he will keep a close eye on states like Illinois and will not rush to accept Trump as the winner until the final vote is counted.
Faced with this situation, the Brookings Institution urged Americans “not to be impatient” and assured them that the slow release of the results showed that state governments were working diligently and meticulously to ensure fairness. Body.
“Do not think it is a sign of electoral fraud,” the Washington DC-based research institute closed the problem.
Be careful with initial results
According to the newspaper New York TimesMany states only publish the results of their direct vote count on Election Day and spend the following days counting and publishing the results of the votes by mail. So you can drive this state in favor of Trump in the beginning, but in the end, Biden is the winner and vice versa.
