Find out that there is no central election authority in the United States. The 2022 midterm elections are shaping up to be one of the largest in the nation’s history, with control of Congress at stake.
Tuesday, November 8, 2022. Election Day.
With their vote, the Americans will decide on the renewal of most of the two houses of Congress: the 435 seats that make up the House of Representatives (where the deputies remain in office for two years) and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate (where the mandate is six years and the date of their election varies).
In addition, governorships in 36 states and a variety of state and local government positions, such as secretary of state, are at stake.
So far the Democrats hold the majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate, albeit with a narrow majority with half of the senators and the tiebreaker of US Vice President Kamala Harris.
Since there is no central election authority in the United States and secretaries of state in each of the country’s 50 states are responsible for counting the votes, the results could take a few days to be known. .
Then, after the polls close, the winners will be judged only on the predictions of the mainstream media and their exit polls..
Nearly all East Coast polling stations have been closed
Most polling stations on the US East Coast close at 00:00 GMT or 19:00 on Wednesdays.
Indiana and Kentucky were followed an hour later by Florida, Georgia, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia.
Wednesday at 00:30 GMT, and still in the eastern part of the United States, it will be the turn of North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia.
President Biden calls on people to vote
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday called on Americans lining up to vote in the midterm elections to stay in line, not leave it, and to make their voices heard.
« As polling places begin to close in some parts of the country, if you’re lining up at your polling place before it closes, stay in line. Make your voice heard“the president said on Twitter.
Trump talks about voting failures
Former President Donald Trump took to his social network Truth to report what was happening in some counties.
“Reports are coming from Arizona that voting machines are malfunctioning in predominantly Republican/conservative areas,” he wrote.
“Can that be true when the vast majority of Republicans waited to vote today? Yet ? People won’t shut up!!!! “He added.
Republicans criticize the failures
Some Republicans have already used Tuesday’s isolated incidents to blame the fraud.
Kari Lake, a Trump-backed gubernatorial candidate, criticized the incidents and suggested they may be deliberate. “It’s incompetence. I hope it’s not harmful, but we’ll fix it, we’ll win,” she said.
Here’s a timeline of how the last closed polling stations by state, all ET:
7:00 pm: Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia (ballots close in parts of Indiana and Kentucky at 6:00 PM ET)
7.30pm: North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia
8:00 pm: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, DC, FloridaIllinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee
8.30pm: Arkansas
21:00: Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New YorkNorth Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin, Wyoming
10pm: Montana, Nevada, PennsylvaniaUtahPolling hours have been extended from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm in Luzerne County
11pm: California, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
Midnight: Hawaii
1 o’clock: Alaska
