United States presidential election, 2024
Americans who have not already voted in advance (this is the case for 82 million people) are called to the polls this Tuesday for a presidential election which promises to be extremely close between the Republican candidate and former president Donald Trump and the outgoing Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
The stakes of the election are such, the voting intention polls are so undecided, particularly in seven states considered likely to fall into one camp or the other (“swing states”), and the ballot counting system is so variable. from one state to another that the winner may not be known for several days.
To be elected, a candidate must win at least 270 of the 538 “electors” who will formally designate him president on December 17. The fate of the election could therefore be decided in one or two states, such as Pennsylvania and its 19 electors, against a backdrop of fear of a repeat of the violence which followed the 2020 election won by Joe Biden against Donald Trump, including the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
In addition to the presidential election, Americans are called upon to completely renew the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate.
Here are the latest developments:
12:00 p.m. – Polling stations opened at 6:00 a.m. local time in several states on the East Coast, including New York.
As has been tradition since 1960, the residents of Dixville Notch, a small village in New Hampshire, were however invited to vote at midnight. They gave three votes to each of the two candidates.
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(Written by Tangi Salaün, edited by Sophie Louet)
