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With fear and prayers in mind, Americans are voting this Tuesday in the most existential and precarious midterm elections in recent history. This is one of the reasons why more than 42 million voters (according to monitoring by the NBC network) have already expressed their views in advance, both in person and by mail, even though the bulk of citizens this Tuesday at thousands of polling stations across all 50 states.
The geographic vastness of the country, with different time zones from coast to coast, and the complexity of some areas will mark the counting of the ballots tonight. It is not an electoral dawn as it can happen in Spain in a legislature. The president himself, Joe Biden, recently warned that the final results “will be known in a few days.” Several people in charge of the electoral system have echoed this idea, recalling, as with previous elections, that the delays in some states are a result of the difficulties in recounts and “it doesn’t mean anything catastrophic is happening,” he said. the Secretary, Acting State of Pennsylvania, Leigh M. Chapman, in response to Republican leaders already predicting an equivalence between voter delay and voter fraud. In the case of Pennsylvania itself, the final results of the 2020 presidential election were known within 20 days. In Michigan it took three days.
In fact, the elections two years ago have been pivotal in the passing of new voting restriction laws in more than 20 states since then and the reconfiguration of many constituencies in favor of Republicans. For this reason, far-right extremism is playing this Tuesday with greater benefits than ever. In Florida, for example, organizations that facilitate voter registration or African-American families have denounced the impositions and confusion created by Governor Ron DeSantis’ new laws, inflicting heavy fines on many voters who struggle to vote.
On the other hand, and as confirmed by the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Jen Easterly, the current risk of internal electoral threats is considered greater and more complex than ever. Federal agencies and the FBI have tried harder than ever in this perverse electoral climate that has been seeded since Trump’s defeat in 2020 to verify that all infrastructure has not been altered by hostile actors and has ruled out sabotage or problems with the tally or tally. . Two years ago, the former Republican president falsely claimed that hackers had manipulated the voting machines in Biden’s favor. By the way, Donald Trump’s Republicans have gained the support of billionaire Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, breaking the platform’s traditional political neutrality.
In a broad perspective, political violence has always been part of the history of the United States, and worse than better, the country has survived past moments of national heaviness, such as the assassinations of President John Kennedy and his brother Bobby Kennedy, or of leaders as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, among many others. Not to mention a century earlier, the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln himself, which took place just after the Civil War at a time of maximum division and great instability in the country.
Yet the new generations have experienced nothing close to national commotion and a sense of insecurity comparable to what is currently experienced in American society. In addition to the angry and hateful speeches cited by analysts as one of the reasons for this feeling of general unrest, there is also the weight of the attack on the Capitol, which is pervasive across all sectors of the population. Under that syndrome, a large part of millions of voters will go to the polls this Tuesday.
Likewise, the majority of the white population has not suffered from the experience of voting restriction laws or electoral harassment, as it has traditionally weighed heavily on minorities, especially African Americans, Latinos and Asians, to whom none of this is new. Restriction laws known as Jim Crow, or the usual KKK (Ku klux Klan) raids of intimidating violence in neighborhoods before elections, remain fresh in most minds.
Source: La Verdad
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