NEW JERSEY – Americans are voting for presidential election 2020 as the polling stations in eastern US states – New York, New Jersey and Virginia – was opened early Tuesday with President Donald Trump and Democrat’s Joe Biden are in the race.
Voters in Dixville Notch, a village of 12 residents in the US state of New Hampshire, started the polling at midnight by casting their votes unanimously in favour of Biden.
A record-breaking 100 million Americans have cast their votes in early voting in which Joe Biden is in strong position with strong lead.
Both main contenders – Republican’s President Donald Trump and Democratic’s Joe Biden – on Monday paced up efforts to woo maximum voters to bag victory. The candidates actively visited different states to look for the remaining voters.
Trump, 74, visited five states – Iowa, North Carolina, Michigan, Georgia and Florida – while 77-year-old Biden, who holds strong lead in the early voting ahead of November 3 polls, addressed to public in Pennsylvania.
Both senior politicians lashed out at each other with coronavirus pandemic issue at the centre. Biden slammed Trump for poorly handling the health crisis while the latter warned people that they should carefully select between “Biden lockdown” or a vaccine to end the pandemic.
In the US election, voters have to decide state-level contests rather than an overall single national one.
Each US state has a certain number of electoral college votes, which are made on the basis of its population.
In this elections, there are 538 electoral colleges so the winner is required to win at least 270.
Tuesday’s vote is being held amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in the country.
The number of coronavirus has reached to 9,488,789 after it detected 14,878 cases while death toll has climbed to 236,571 on Sunday.
