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The two United States came out on Tuesday to vote and protest.
The vote had been massive for days.
And it was the culmination.
By mid-afternoon in Washington,
more than 100 million mail-in
and early
votes
had already been counted
, as many states began voting in September.
That was a whopping 73% of all votes tabulated in the 2016 election. In some states, early turnout was simply staggering.
In Florida, which can decide the election, when the schools were opened yesterday,
no less than 65% of the people with the capacity to do so
had already voted
, reports
Carlos Fresneda
from Miami.
If only another 9% voted in person, the 2016 figure would have already been exceeded.
With so much up-front voting,
the schools were surprisingly calm
.
"There are few people here today, just about 100 people," explained to EL MUNDO Brett McBride, the coordinator of the school located in the Marie H. Reed municipal swimming pool, on 18th Street in Washington, in the Adams Morgan neighborhood, an area that until recently was predominantly Hispanic and popular but is dominated today by professionals working in
lobbies
and international institutions.
The school, in addition, had been open since Tuesday.
And this Tuesday at one in the afternoon, after four hours of voting,
barely 100 people had passed by
, according to McBride.
On 18th Street in Washington, the only question
was whether Donald Trump was going to get a vote
.
This was obviously not the case in other parts of the country.
The allegations of fraud and duress were already flying after just three hours of voting.
Although that was not exclusive to the presidential.
Even in the Marie H. Reed municipal swimming pool
there had been allegations of vote buying at the very door of the voting center
, not for the presidential elections, but for those who decided, yesterday also, the positions of Washington councilors.
The fact that all the candidates for councilman there are from the same party, the Democrat, did not prevent that propensity for deception.
Outside of the Democratic and Republican monocultures,
protests were more widespread
.
They were made by the supporters of Donald Trump and the right - who had been organizing caravans of vehicles for days, especially pick-up vans, with which they blocked traffic on the highways and sometimes harassed Democratic candidates - who yesterday stood in front of schools in certain areas to block access to them or defend their candidate.
And they were made by the followers of Joe Biden and the left
, who at four in the afternoon had planned to start a demonstration in front of the White House, at the corner renamed by the Washington City Hall Plaza de las Lives Negras
Matter (Black Lives Matter Square
) .
Vote and fight
The vote and the anger.
And, for some, the vote and the bullet,
judging by the depletion of ammunition stocks in stores
.
That is what unites the United States.
At least, there is the consolation that the people - the people who are always talked about even though they do not know who they are - believe in democracy.
Because, otherwise, there is no explanation for the massive attendance at the polls, which began a month and a half ago, when the first polling stations were opened in states like Virginia (and protests in front of them predictably began).
That was
the positive aspect of these elections in a society divided
by absolutely everything: even by the public toilets, since Democrats defend unisex, while Republicans demand that the traditional separation between men and women be maintained.
When a society throws the clutter at its head about how to go to the service, it is effectively experiencing
a true culture war about values that confronts two irreconcilable halves
, or, at least, two halves whose leaders and elements more Assets are irreconcilable because they have discovered that this is the best way to have power.
That attitude of the American political leadership was evident yesterday, when the people were already voting.
President Donald Trump visited his campaign headquarters in Virginia and said, "Winning is easy. Losing, no. Not for me."
No one knew last night if, in the event that he lost the election,
Trump would admit it, particularly in the event that the result was tight
.
What was clear was that he was going to lose the popular vote by a margin of historic dimensions.
That meant very little, however, given that in the US electoral system
the president can get fewer votes than his rival
and win without any problem.
So Joe Biden, in a
desperate attempt to scratch the last vote
of the crucial state of Pennsylvania, in which he was born, was campaigning there yesterday morning.
Between protest and protest, democracy kept going.
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