The US midterm election counting work has entered the fourth day, and there has been no conclusion on which party to control the two houses of Congress. According to US media analysis, there are two main reasons for the difficulty. First, the election situation in key states is too stalemate, and second, more and more voters use time-consuming mail-in voting.
This year's midterm election seems to repeat the 2020 presidential election. The Democratic presidential candidate Biden was confirmed as the winner four days after the 2020 Election Day. It was announced in January the following year. This year's midterm election is not much inferior, and the Senate or the Senate is controlled by the Party, and there has been no conclusion until now.
According to the invoice statistics of CNN (CNN), as of 4 pm Eastern Time on the 11th (5 AM Taipei Time on the 12th), there are still 3 seats in the Senate and 25 seats in the House of Representatives.
The Republican and Democratic parties currently win seats in the Senate and House of Representatives, 49 to 48 and 211 to 199 respectively, which is still a bit far from the 51 seats that have the threshold for majority advantage (because the vice president who also serves as the Speaker of the Senate holds a key vote in the draw, the Democratic Party only needs 50 seats) and 218 seats.
The three seats not offered by the Senate include Georgia , Arizona and Nevada. Among them, , Georgia, , has completed 99% of the votes, and has not yet won more than half of the votes, and it is almost certain that it will enter the second round of the final election on December 6 (Joeu state stipulates that if no candidate wins more than half of the votes, the top two votes will be held in the second round of the final election).
In Arizona , Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, who is currently leading Republican opponent Blake Masters with a 5.6 percentage point or 115,000 votes, but 20% of the votes are still not selected.
As for Nevada, former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, who represents the Republican Party, continues to lead the Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto who is striving for re-election, but Masto keeps narrowing the gap. Currently, the two are only 1 percentage point apart, less than 9,000 votes, and 12% of the votes are still not finished.
CNN pointed out that the main reason why the election has not reached a conclusion for a long time is that the election situation in the key state is too stalemate, and the media dare not rashly declare the winner. In addition, many local voters choose to use mail-in voting, which is time-consuming to count votes.
Local officials in Maricopa County, Arizona said that the reason why mailing and delivering ballots is time-consuming to process is because staff must compare signatures outside the ballot envelope and in the voter database one by one; as of the 10th, CNN estimated that Arizona still has 665,000 ballots to be calculated.
As for Nevada, according to regulations, as long as the postmark date is before the election day, the deadline for receiving mail-in ballots is 12 days, and if there is a "technical error" such as no signature, voters still have a chance to correct the votes before the 15th, which means they need to know that the final number of votes is still waiting; as of the 10th, CNN estimates that there are still 120,000 votes to be calculated in the inner state.
If the Democratic and Republicans each win Arizona and Nevada seats, Georgia will once again become a decisive state in the Senate's control, and the results will not be achieved after December 6; but if the Democratic and Nevada take Arizona, Nevada will turn the tables again and Mastero will be re-elected. Whoever controls the Senate may be a conclusion in a few days.
In the House of Representatives, most of the unselected seats are concentrated in the West Bank, mainly because there are still mail-in ballots to be calculated.
" Washington Post " analysis pointed out that although the Republican Party is close to the threshold of 218 seats, many unsold seats are currently located in "blue-sided states" (democratic parties), and the final result is still difficult to say. But what can be confirmed is that even if the Republican Party wins a majority, the gap will not be as large as expected before the election, and may only win nearly 220 seats.
The new crown epidemic has changed the voting habits of American voters, and mail-in voting is becoming more and more popular, and the voting work is becoming more time-consuming. It may become increasingly difficult to know the election results in the future. Voters can only wait except waiting. (Xue Yang/compiled)
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