The intensity with which Americans have lived through Election Day has resulted in few incidents, all minor ones
The United States experienced an election day this Tuesday of an intensity unknown in its recent history. Many voters felt a huge responsibility to straighten out the country’s course, while others went to the polls to save the integrity of democracy. However, under heavy scrutiny from threats of violence and intimidation of civilians and election officials, the day passed without major setbacks and considerable sobriety, albeit in an atmosphere tainted by the specter of electoral fraud conspiracies that have fueled them for months from the Republican side related to former President Donald Trump.
Suspicion of possible electoral sabotage made vigilance more urgent. Irregularities that had gone undetected in the past came to light this Tuesday, such as the two vote tabulators that were out of operation in one New Jersey county and another in Arizona, requiring votes to be counted by hand; or the delay in workers arriving at some Pennsylvania polling stations, which led to a delay in schools opening. More serious was what happened in the town of Beaumont, Texas, where reports of harassment of African American voters by white pollsters and an emergency court order forbidding approaching voters from seeing their voting options were reported and made it illegal to vote for them. force them to give their address out loud.
In addition, a polling station in Kenner, Louisiana, with a sizable population of black and Latino residents but a majority of white Republicans, received the second bomb threat in a week, forcing an emergency move to another location. In addition, a mobile application, an internet portal and a hotline with information on polling stations and ballot papers experienced technical problems within hours of the polling stations opening. Cases like this required federal observers to be present at many schools.
The day also recorded incidents involving election monitors, such as in Fulton County, Georgia, where two workers were fired after learning of their participation in the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
In addition, voters in many constituencies in populations with a significant proportion of minorities were forced to patiently wait in long lines for their turn to vote after scheduling the day to exercise their right to vote, with almost heroic efforts to save work, family and transportation. to coordinate.
For many African Americans, often excluded from economic prosperity, voting in these elections represented a commitment to a political option that offers fairer opportunities. Meanwhile, the elderly, a solid voting segment, went to the polls for the safety and tranquility of their citizens. In the case of minorities, whose older generations have witnessed the struggle for the right to vote, the exercise of their right represents a greater civic duty.
Poor white communities, displaced by the globalization and digitization of the economy in recent decades, voted to justify a Republican-fueled grudge against a country they don’t recognize themselves in: a more educated America, with dozens of languages they don’t. , thriving minority communities, emerging women, greater social and environmental engagement, and the decline of ways of life that will not return. Clinging to an outdated libertarian decalogue encompassing the border, hatred of the imposed pandemic, and a general perception that their freedoms are under threat, their protest vote signaled support for Republican extremism.
While many results were decided quickly, others will take weeks to process all incoming votes. In 2020, it took up to fifteen days. Hundreds of election contests at the local, state and federal levels will determine the balance of power in Congress and thereby the course of the country, a decision that hangs mainly over the swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia, with very close results.
Source: La Verdad
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