Elections to elect the President of the United States will start at 2:00 pm today (3rd) our time and 0am today (3rd) local time.
The 22-month long campaign, which started with the Democratic candidates' declaration of run in January last year, reaches its end with votes from US voters.
The presidential election starts at 2 p.m. our time in two places, including Dixville Notch, a small town in New Hampshire.
The outline of the winners may take several days if the ballot count delays due to the surge in votes by mail are combined with a close match.
The election was held in a fierce bilateral confrontation between President Donald Trump seeking re-election and former Vice President Joe Biden of the Democratic Party, who succeeded in winning the presidential position after three runs.
President Trump appealed for'four more years' with the banner of'America First' that puts the interests of the United States first and the economic report card during his tenure, but this year, the unexpected Corona 19 crisis broke out and struggled.
Candidate Biden broke through this gap, attacked President Trump's failure to respond to the epidemic, and fought all-out war against the three ``anti-Trump'' rally, advocating the restoration of the traditional American values.
President Trump and Candidate Biden have presented different solutions for the foreign and security policy of the'Hegemonic State' of the United States, and the direction of the president is expected to have a great impact on the situation on the Korean Peninsula as well as the world.
Since this presidential election is held in conjunction with the Senate and House elections by the parliament, it also attracts attention in terms of the reorganization of parliamentary power.
Currently, according to various opinion poll indicators, candidate Biden maintains a considerable edge at the national level, but it is not easy to predict the victory because there are places where there is a conflict with margin of error in the case of the race that decides the presidential election.
President Trump lost in the poll four years ago but was aiming for'Again 2016', which won the election day, while Biden held an election campaign focused on'solidifying' to maintain an edge in the poll.
There is also concern that it may take several days for the election results to come out as a large number of voters who are concerned about infection due to the corona 19 pandemic choose to vote in advance this year.
The surge in vote-by-mail is a factor that delays counting, and it takes longer to complete the counting than in the past.
According to the election prediction site, “The US Election Project,” there are 9536 million voters now, with pre-voting, surpassing 47 million times, the highest ever four years ago.
Among them, 64.8 million people voted by mail and 34.88 million people voted in advance.
If there is a shift toward one candidate from the beginning of the counting, the declaration of victory will be accelerated, but if the winner is difficult to determine the winner, a'winner's vacancy' may occur.
President Trump said post-election votes by mail, which have been highly favored by the Democratic Party, have been a hotbed for ``fraudulent votes,'' suggesting the possibility of dissatisfaction through lawsuits in the event of a defeat in the presidential election.
In this case, there are even voices of concern that the United States may fall into extreme division and confusion, and that it may lead to unrest amid physical clashes between supporters.
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