WASHINGTON: As People put together to vote on Election Day on Tuesday (Nov 5), officers are calling for persistence as they tally ballots in what could possibly be a historically close presidential race – and warning that it might take days to search out out who has received.
Below the US system, residents don’t vote immediately for his or her chief. As a substitute, their ballots elect the 538 members of a bunch known as the Electoral School, which then elects the president and vice chairman.
Every state casts its Electoral School votes for the candidate that received its standard vote. Greater states, with extra representatives within the US Congress, get a bigger share of the 538 Electoral School votes on provide.
Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and her Republican rival Donald Trump might be vying to get to the all-important 270 votes that pushes them previous the midway mark and ensures them the keys to the Oval Workplace.
However with this 12 months’s race taking place to the wire, consultants level to a rising threat of delays and problems like authorized challenges over the vote depend.
Round 81 million folks have voted forward of Tuesday, over half of the full ballots solid in 2020.
