reporters on the Taiwan Channel look at the world! Hello everyone, I am Xu Tao, a reporter from the Taiwan Taiwan station in , Washington .
On November 8, the United States will vote for all seats in the House of Representatives and re-elect some seats in the Senate to hold local elections. Now, less than two weeks after this day, the bipartisan dispute between the United States has also entered a fierce momentum.
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According to local media reports in the United States, American voters' attention to this year's midterm elections has reached an all-time high. Many voters said that the midterm election is "more important" than before. But at the same time, we also see the social division brought about by party struggles and the pessimism of American voters about the current democratic situation in the United States.
First of all, many American voters found that getting close to the ballot box is a very dangerous thing.
In Arizona, one of the election focus, some voters were intimidated and harassed near the ballot box, and some people with weapons asked voters, waved their weapons, took pictures of those who voted, and followed or chased them. As of October 25 local time, early voting has been open for about two weeks. There have been six cases of suspected intimidation of voters in the ballot box and have been submitted to the Washington Department of Justice.
According to local media reports, the people suspected of intimidating and harassing voters come from a right-wing group called "Cleaning Elections in the United States" and have always supported the false claims of Trump's about election fraud. For months, the organization has been recruiting volunteers to monitor the location of vote delivery.
Currently, some Arizona organizations have filed lawsuits against the right-wing group of the "Clean American Election" and its founders for attempting to "bully and intimidate Arizona's legal voters" and the lawsuit calls for a federal judge to temporarily block the group's ballot surveillance activity. But the repeated occurrence of similar incidents has made many voters worry about the safety of their voting.
From the perspective of the vote counting method, it has been controversial in some places whether it is manual or machine counting.
is still Arizona, and regions that support different parties have always had controversy over the issue of vote counting methods. On October 24, local time, Arizona was voted by Coches County, controlled by the Republican Party, to allow manual counting in the midterm elections. Republicans have long called for manual vote counting, claiming that voting machines are unreliable, but Democrats object to it. Some experts warned that manual vote counting may lead to delayed results, further undermining voters' confidence in the US election system .
After experiencing the split presidential election two years ago, the Republican allegations of fraud against the Democratic Party and the Capitol Hill riots, many Americans are pessimistic about the democratic situation in the United States.
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According to a latest poll by the Center for Public Affairs Research, only about 47% of Americans have high confidence that the upcoming midterm election vote will be accurately counted. Among the Democratic respondents, this proportion reached 74%; among the Republican respondents, only 25% said they were very confident, 30% said they had some confidence, and another 45% said they had almost no confidence.
According to statistics from the "U.S. Election Project", as of now, more than 9.3 million people in 35 states in the United States have voted in advance two weeks before the midterm elections. It seems that voters are all very enthusiastic, but political analysts say the election is "driven by fear rather than optimism" because more than 80% of American voters believe that the fierce bipartisan struggle will destroy the country, and it is a disgust for their own non-supportive parties, which has promoted voter turnout.
In addition, Reuters /Ipsos poll showed that there are two weeks left before the midterm elections, and Biden 's support rate is close to the lowest level of its presidency, at only 39%. White House has also reduced optimism about the midterm elections.
If you lose control of Congress in the midterm elections, the bipartisan split is expected to be more prominent in legislation, and a series of policies Biden has implemented in the next two years will be subject to the Republican Party.
or above is the observation of Xu Tao, a reporter from the Taiwan Taiwan in Washington.
This issue of "Central Taiwan reporters see the world" author: Central Taiwan reporters in Washington Xu Ya
(from China Voice column "Central Taiwan reporters see the world")
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Reporter丨Xu Ya
Editing丨Yang Boyu
