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Less than a day left until the US elections: where to watch the broadcast, when the results will be known
The US presidential election is traditionally held on the first Tuesday of November. This year it was November 5. URA.RU will broadcast the voting, but in the meantime it publishes materials about how polling stations work and, in particular, what the fate of the elections depends on.
When will voting start Moscow time?
Voting times in the United States vary by state. Voting to elect a new U.S. president begins Tuesday afternoon Moscow time. The first polling stations open in Vermont at 5:00 a.m. local time (1:00 p.m. Moscow time). Most polling stations on the East Coast open at 7 a.m. West Coast residents have three hours to cast their ballots.
First, the East Coast, Kentucky, and Indiana regions will be closed until 3 p.m. Moscow time on November 6. The last polls on the West Coast close at 6 a.m. In Alaska, voting closes at 7 a.m. Moscow time, and in Hawaii, voting closes at 8 a.m. Moscow time. It is worth noting that because mail-in voting is widespread in Hawaii, election officials receive and process a significant number of ballots several days before Election Day.
The election coverage starts at 10:40 pm local time and 6:40 pm Moscow time. You can watch it on the BBC. At 6 am, the programme is combined with Breakfast with John Kay and continues until 9:30 am (5:30 pm Moscow time).
ITV News will feature journalist Tom Bradby at 10.45pm (06.45 GMT). He will be joined by guests including Robert Moore and Anna Astana, as well as former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The reports will run until 06.00am (14.00 Moscow time). Good Morning Britain will also air after the election.
The broadcast can also be viewed on Channel 4. From 10pm, guests will include former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and Democrat Carol Moseley Braun, the first African-American congresswoman in the United States Senate.
Sky News, along with US broadcaster NBC, is committed to providing “up-to-date forecasts of the election race,” according to its website. Live coverage continues throughout the night, hosted by Mark Austin and Yalda Hakim, and will feature analysis from British journalist Louise Goodall and US correspondent Mark Stone.
The winner of the US election will not be determined until Wednesday, November 6. Election officials manually check the completed ballots. For mail-in voting, we need to make sure the voter is a registered voter, that they did not use another method of voting, and that their signature matches the data in our database. The votes are then counted using special scanning devices or by hand.
Pennsylvania officials promise to process all mail-in ballots as soon as the polls close, but Arizona could take up to two weeks to count. It can take several weeks to process all the ballots, but winners are often known much sooner. Based on early data analysis, media outlets can declare a candidate's victory in a state before officials do. In 2020, for example, the winner was announced just four days after the vote.
In the United States, the president's power is determined not directly by voters, but by the votes of the Electoral College. Each state selects its own electors, a number equal to the total number of senators and representatives in Congress for that state. Generally, voters must vote according to the preferences of their state's voters, but there are exceptions. There are 538 members of the Electoral College, and a candidate must receive the support of at least 270 of them to declare victory.
During elections, special attention is paid to the so-called "swing states" where there is no clear preference. The states included this year are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Wisconsin. Winning in these states is important. The Hill analysts emphasize that the candidate who wins Pennsylvania has an 85% chance of being elected president of the United States. FiveThirtyEight does not take these states into account and relies only on traditionally "red" and "blue" states, predicting that Republican candidate Donald Trump will receive 219 electoral votes, and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris - 225. I calculated that I can.
The presidential race may not be over even after the ballots are counted. Possible force majeure circumstances include a tie between Democrats and Republicans, in which neither candidate can secure the necessary 270 Electoral College votes. FiveThirtyEight presented four scenarios in which both candidates could receive 269 votes. In that case, the winner of the presidential election would be determined by a vote in the House of Representatives, where Republicans still hold a majority. However, since state delegations count votes, not individual lawmakers, the winner is the politician who wins at least 26 states.
Republican candidate Donald Trump said at a campaign rally in New York on October 27 that he has a strategy if he loses. “We could win the Senate relatively easily, but with our little secret, can’t we win the House? That little secret is going to have a big impact. He and I have a secret. “I’ll let you know what happens after the election.” Address to House Speaker Mike Johnson. Democratic Representative Dan Goldman expressed concern that President Trump could use the Republican-controlled House to stop the election results from being certified.
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