WASHINGTON (AP) – Latest news about the presidential crusade (every hour):
4:45 p. m.
The Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity firm said the U. S. election had presented the same old technical and regime problems, but without obvious symptoms of malicious cyber activity, at least not yet.
The cybersecurity and infrastructure firm also said it is too early to claim victory, as polls near the country’s closure on Tuesday and counting and certification days approach.
A senior firm official said, “The stage has been quiet and we are confident, but we are still out of danger. “The official spoke on condition of anonymity to inform experts about the follow-up efforts of national elections before any kind of official assessment was published.
The official warned that local and state electoral systems may suffer unrest when the effects are reported, however, the maximum likely cause would be a superior call to place in the system, as others are overwhelmed to check the effects.
– By AP Ben Fox
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE:
It’s U. S. Election Day, President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, are competing for the White House. Arizona, Iowa, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin are among the states that will help the candidate get all 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.
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HERE’S MORE HAPPENING:
4:30 p. m.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris travels to Wilmington, Delaware, after spending the afternoon campaigning on the Battlefield of Michigan.
She reminded the electorate at a Detroit church on Tuesday how narrow Donald Trump’s margin of victory in the state was in 2016, and suggested that they review for two other people to vote.
He also suggested to others why they vote if they are trapped in long queues.
Early Tuesday, he campaigned with Democratic Senator Gary Peters, who will be re-elected, Senator Debbie Stabenow and Rep. Brenda Lawrence in Southfield. Peter is in a competitive race for Republican John James.
He will sign up for Joe Biden in Delaware on Tuesday night.
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4:25 p. m.
A spokesman for the Iowa secretary of state said the hand sanitist in the hands of voters would get stuck in a voting scanner at an electoral college in Des Moines.
Spokesman Kevin Hall said some voters’ hands were raining when they manipulated the ballots and the buildup of disinfectant prevented the scanner from working.
The device repaired in about an hour.
At some other court, election officials moved the disinfection workplace further to the queue so that voters’ hands would be dry when they first contacted the ballots.
It’s an exclusive challenge from the coronavirus era. Iowa is thought to be one of the states in Tuesday’s election between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden.
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2:30 p. m.
A federal ruling in Washington, D. C. , ordered U. S. Postal Service inspectors to scan more than two dozen mail processing services for persistent postcards and send them immediately.
The order, which includes centers in central Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, South Florida, and parts of Wisconsin, occurs after delays in pre-election domestic deliveries and fears that the company may not deliver ballots on time.
The Postal Service’s ability to manage the rise of mail-in ballots is a fear after its new boss, Post Office Minister Louis DeJoy, a major donor to the Republican Party, implemented a series of policy adjustments that delayed mail hours across the country this summer. recovered, but has not consistently met the agency’s internal goals of delivering more than 95% of first-class mail in five days, and service in some battlefield spaces is far behind, according to postal data.
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2:25 p. m.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections voted Tuesday to keep 4 polling stations open longer because they opened late, which is expected to curb effects across the state.
The longest forty-five minute extension for a site in Sampson County. This means that the state cannot publicly report statewide effects until 8:15 p. m.
The state’s more than 2,600 polling stations are also expected to close until 7:30 p. m. But state election officials said in a press release last week that if hours in polling stations continue, they will publish any effect until all polling stations are closed.
President Damon Circosta showed at Tuesday’s assembly that extended hours would delay the results.
Expired polling stations come with one in Cabarrus County, one in Guilford County and two in Sampson County. Delays were due at least in part to problems with printers or other electronic equipment. to others in those counties, the diversity from 17 minutes to forty-five minutes and correspond to the additional time required to open them.
The council’s executive director, Karen Brinson Bell, said at a pre-vote press conference the morning before the vote that voting hours should not be increased on polling day.
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2:05 p. m.
Long queues were reported across the country, which is not unusual, and sporadic reports of opening expired polling stations. There have also been unrest with voting apparatus in Georgia, Ohio and Texas counties.
But overall, things are going well in the top places, with an enthusiastic electorate waiting patiently to vote. Experts expected the total number of votes to exceed 139 million cast in 2016. About 101 million others voted before Election Day, taking into account warnings about the coronavirus pandemic.
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2:00 p. m.
Senator Kamala Harris is on the battlefield in Michigan to vote on Election Day.
He landed in Detroit, a predominantly black city, about six hours before the polls closed. As Joe Biden’s running mate, Harris largely aimed to motivate the black electorate to run. He told reporters that she in Michigan, so the electorate in Detroit would know “that Joe and I notice and listen to them. “
Trump Michigan in 2016.
When asked how confident she was, Harris replied, “Look, the day is over. “
“I’m just here to remind other people to vote because the election is still ongoing. It’s not over,” he says.
Michigan polls at 8 p. m.
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1:45 p. m.
The most recent count of early voting in the United States shows that nearly 102 million Americans voted before Election Day, an astonishing total representing 73% of the overall turnout in the 2016 presidential election.
The Associated Press says early voting in several large states, including Texas and Arizona, has already exceeded the total votes four years ago.
Early voting, whether in person, by mail or mail, increased the COVID-19 pandemic, as the electorate sought the safety and comfort it offers. The biggest gains were noticed in Kentucky, where nearly thirteen times as many electorates voted in early 2016.
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1:20 p. m.
Supporters applauded and applauded President Donald Trump at the headquarters of his crusade, where he visited Tuesday to thank dozens of workers running for re-election.
Trump predicted his victory, but declared that he could lose.
“I think we’re going to have a good night, but it’s politics and elections and you never know,” Trump said.
He said his crusade is going well in states like Florida, Arizona and Texas. He lobbied for the importance of winning Pennsylvania.
“Winning is easy. Losing is never easy,” he said. “Not for me, that’s not the case. “
The president visited the Annex of the Republican National Committee in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, after days of road campaigning.
“After making so many rallies, the voice becomes a little choppy,” Trump with his speech now gravely.
Trump said good fortune will bring unity and index what he believes his achievements are with the coronavirus and the economy.
More than a hundred members, almost all dressed in masks, covered the the back wall of the operations center to hear their candidate. Some of the masks had the words “Trump” and “MAGA” for Trump’s crusade slogan “Make America Great Again. “
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12:20 p. m.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she is “absolutely sure” that Democrats will “keep their majority solid” in the House.
In a call to the convention with reporters on Election Day, the California Democrat said that “this election is all about regaining America’s soul, whether our country follows the voices of concern or hope. “
Pelosi and Rep. Cheri Bustos say the party is penetrating Trump’s account to win seats. Rural Virginia.
Bustos says Democrats “will see victories in those deep red districts. “
Pelosi says she’s Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden will win the White House with President Donald Trump.
Biden spent the day visiting Pennsylvania and Trump had a phone interview on Fox News Channel.
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11 a. M.
The first girl, Melania Trump, cast her vote through prevention at a polling station in Palm Beach, Florida, near President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
Trump moved his from New York to Palm Beach County last year and voted as a user on October 24 in early voting. When asked why she didn’t vote with the president, the first girl told reporters Tuesday: “It’s Election Day, so I wanted to come here and vote for the election today. “
The first girl greeted and smiled at the journalists, the only user who didn’t wear a mask to protect he he or she from the coronavirus when she entered the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center to vote, possibly for her husband.
Ms. Trump spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said the first lady, who recovered from COVID-19, the only user at the polling place, with the exception of some election officials and their own employees, all of whom were examined.
Grisham says no one close to the first girl “because of the social distance and intimacy” that other people get when they vote.
Ms. Trump announced in a blog post last month that she had recovered from a combat COVID-19 that included headaches, pains and fatigue and said she had tested negative.
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10:40 a. m.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden returned to his roots on his final day of campaigning with a home from his training years in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Biden arrived in the small two-story blank space to greet a hero of more than a hundred people clapping across the street. Biden greeted the crowd and said, “It’s smart to be home!”
Biden lived in space until the age of 10. On Tuesday, he climbed the steps of the entrance and spoke with existing owners before entering with their granddaughters. When Biden left, he said that existing citizens had made him point to his wall.
Biden then crossed it to greet the weight of the followers, who applauded and applauded.
Pennsylvania is the key to Biden’s hopes at the White House, and plans to go to Philadelphia later.
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9:45 a. m.
The federal government monitors voting and any electoral risks across the country at an operations center outside Washington, D. C. , through the cybersecurity component of the Department of Homeland Security. Local officials said no primary disorders had been detected early Tuesday, but suggested that the public be suspicious and patient.
U. S. Agency for Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Director Christopher Krebs said the medium was “the first symptoms of the formula disruption,” but did not specify. He says he has “confidence that the vote is Array that the count is and that the effects will be. “
Krebs says officials have realized that foreign actors tried to “intervene in the 2020 elections,” but says officials “reacted temporarily to those threats” and “comprehensively. “
Krebs says Election Day “in a sense, it’s halftime. “He says that “there may be other occasions or activities or efforts to interfere and undermine confidence in elections. “He calls on all Americans to “treat all sensational and unverified claims with skepticism and not forget that the generation fails. “
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9:20 a. m.
For Joe Biden, it all comes down to Pennsylvania.
Biden spent Election Day campaigning in his hometown of Scranton and Philadelphia and will meet with the city’s electorate.
Pennsylvania is the key to Biden’s hopes in the White House. While his assistants say he has several ways to get 270 votes in polling schools, the way is to win Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Biden campaigned in Keystone state more than any other.
The cities Biden will visit on Tuesday are strategic and symbolic: Biden has made his working-class education in Scranton a centerpiece of his campaign, framing his economic argument from Scranton’s vision opposite Wall Street as he seeks to regain blue. Philadelphia has been the backdrop to some of Biden’s top speeches and will want strong participation in the highly democratic sector, especially among the black electorate.
As he boarded his flight on Tuesday morning, Biden raised his thumb to the traveling press and felt “fine. “
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8:50 a. m.
President Donald Trump says he believes his giant crowds of demonstrations in his rapid crusade weeks are the “final poll” and result in many votes for re-election.
Trump Fox News Channel Tuesday on Fox
Trump said he would claim to be the winner of the election “only when there is victory. “Trump is feared to claim victory before the vote count is final. But the Republican president told Fox that there is no explanation as to why “play games. “He says he thinks he has “a very smart chance of winning. “
Trump also says he understands why corporations are packing their windows, but he thinks it’s very unhappy that they feel the desire to do so. He predicts that if there is violence and unrest, it will be in democratically governed cities like Chicago; New York City Portland, Oregon; Oakland, California; Baltimore and accuses of “weak leadership. “
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08:30 am.
Joe Biden began election day with a stopover in the church and at the grave of his deceased son, Beau.
Biden and his wife, Jill, stopped early in the morning in San Jose at the Brandywine in Wilmington, Delaware, the church he visits on Sundays at his home.
After a brief trip to the church, the four walked to Beau Biden’s tomb in the church cemetery.
Beau died of brain cancer in 2015, and Biden spoke of his bravery during his deployment to Iraq as a primary in the Delaware National Guard.
Biden’s wife Neilia and granddaughter Naomi died in a car accident in 1972, shortly after Biden was elected senator, and are also buried in the cemetery.
Biden spends the rest of his day in Pennsylvania while making an effort to get the vote.
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