The US goes to the polls with fear

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Trump’s shadow and the spread of election fraud hoaxes hovers over the legislature renewing Congress

In the country that pretends to be a beacon of democracy, people will vote with fear tomorrow. And it’s not just fear of losing hair, it’s physical, impending fear. Even before the day of the midterm elections, according to the Electoral Council, a polling station in Harlem had to be closed on Sunday due to a bomb threat. Imagine what it will be like to vote in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada or Georgia, the four most decisive states, where the difference can be a handful of votes.

“Here we go again! rigged elections!” Donald Trump wrote on social media on Sunday. The only proof he offered that “the fraud” can deprive his own victory, as he claims happened to him in 2020, was an article on a far-right website protesting the accumulation of false votes in Pennsylvania without providing any evidence.

With the latest strike from the Democrats, who have put all the heavyweights on campaign in recent days, party sources believe things may not be going as bad as everyone expects. And if so, there is no doubt that Trump is “fraud!” will call. This time you are not alone. For the two years since his defeat in November 2020, the former president has maintained tight scrutiny in the Reagan and Bush parties, purging in primaries those who did not want to follow him in his false accusations. The test of baptism in Trump’s world is to proclaim loud and clear that he has been robbed, no matter how much evidence is provided to prove otherwise.

Among his loyalists is the Pennsylvania legislature. “Honourable Francis X. Ryan,” heads the letter addressed to him by the local State Department in response to his false accusations that there are already 240,000 “unverified” ballots. The complaint “is not only false and reflects a lack of understanding of the system,” Acting Secretary of State Leigh M. Chapman replied, copying more than a dozen lawmakers, but also misrepresents the testimony he is providing. the board committee of the meeting has met with Secretary of State Jonathan Marks.

According to Reuters’ hoax-checking process, there are fewer than 7,600 ballots marked ‘unverified’, which just means they need additional checking. Under the law, voters have up to six days after the election to provide the requested information. The United States electoral authorities do not certify the results when polling stations close. On the contrary, victory often depends on voting forecasts made by the media when they think the outcome is very clear. That probably won’t happen tonight, barring a Democratic Party debacle.

Trump deniers don’t care about facts, they play with the world of perceptions, ready to stir emotions. His Pennsylvania governor candidate Doug Mastriano publicly wondered why “it’s always the cities where the Democrats win that don’t count the votes on election night.” The statement is, of course, incorrect. There are countless counties in Texas and other states in the country that don’t do that in one day either, although it’s true that Obama’s and Biden’s party usually wins in big cities, where there are more votes to count than in a small town.

And even if everything is in order, the Senate candidate who backs Trump in Arizona, Blake Masters, has twice said that if he wins by 30,000 votes against his rival, former astronaut Mark Kelly, he “cannot guarantee” that 40,000 votes won’t go down. will appear. “by unidentified persons” in favor of Kelly. Obviously, there’s no guarantee that what never happened and may never happen, won’t happen, but it’s enough to shake the mind to plant the seed of anger in the paranoid minds already bred by Trump for rebellion in the last six years.

As a result, armed vigilantes have been stationed outside polling stations for weeks, pointing their automatic rifles at voters and taking pictures of their license plates. The authorities have had to choose fortification barriers to protect the buildings in which the votes will be counted. There are officials who have installed Plexiglas screens to protect themselves from violence and “panic buttons” to call for help. Some organizations have prepared to respond quickly via social media when false claims of voter fraud surface.

NGOs that regularly travel to monitor elections in fragile democracies ask candidates to commit to respecting the results. And counties particularly vulnerable to hysteria, such as Maricopa, Arizona, have installed cameras to monitor every stage of the tabulation process.

In theory, a third of the Senate will be elected and the renewal of the entire House of Representatives, in addition to 36 governors and more than 10,000 junior positions that will be very important in organizing the election process for the White House in two years. But in practice, “democracy is at stake,” Obama and Biden said in their campaign closings until they get hoarse. Judging by fear and security measures, American democracy doesn’t have to wait until tomorrow, it’s already in trouble.

Source: La Verdad

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