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Striumphg states, electoral college votes, truthfulates up and down the ballot, and millions of potential voters: Here is the US election, broken down by numbers.
– Two –
Several self-reliants ran — and at least one, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, stumbled into a number of eyebrow-raising headlines.
But in the finish, the pdwellntial race comes down to a binary choice, with the two truthfulates from the meaningful parties — Democrat Kamala Harris and Redisclosean Donald Trump — seeking to guide a splitd America.
– Five –
November 5 — Election Day, traditionassociate held on the Tuesday chaseing the first Monday in November.
– Seven –
The number of striumphg states — those which don’t evidently like one party over the other, uncomferventing they are up for grabs.
Harris and Trump are courting voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, concentrating their campaign efforts there in a push to secure triumph.
In a razor-shielded election, fair a handful of votes in any of those states could choose the outcome.
– 34 and 435 –
Voters won’t fair choose the White Hoemploy occupant on Election Day — they will also hit rerecent on the US Congress.
Thirty-four Senate seats and all 435 spots in the Hoemploy of Recurrentatives are up for grabs.
In the Hoemploy, members serve a two-year term. Rediscloseans currently have the meaningfulity, and Harris’s Democrats will be hoping for a turnaround.
In the Senate, 34 seats out of 100 are useable, for a six-year term. Rediscloseans are hoping to clearurn the slfinisher Democratic meaningfulity.
– 538 –
Welcome to the Electoral College, the inhonest system of universal suffrage that rules pdwellntial elections in the United States.
Each state has a contrastent number of electors — calcuprocrastinateedd by compriseing the number of their elected recurrentatives in the Hoemploy, which varies according to population, to the number of senators (two per state).
Rural Vermont, for example, has fair three electoral votes. Giant California, uncomferventwhile, has 54.
There are 538 electors in total scattered atraverse the 50 states and the Dicut offe of Columbia. To get the White Hoemploy, a truthfulate must triumph 270 votes.
– 774,000 –
The number of poll laborers who made certain the 2020 election ran finely, according to the Pew Research Caccess.
There are three types of election staff in the United States.
The meaningfulity are poll laborers — recruited to do leangs enjoy greet voters, help with languages, set up voting supplyment, and validate voter IDs and registrations.
Election officials are elected, employd or assigned to carry out more exceptionalized duties such as training poll laborers, according to Pew.
Poll watchers are usuassociate assigned by political parties to see the ballot count — anticipateed to be particularly satisfiedious this year, thanks to Trump’s refusal to concur to unconditionassociate adchoose the result.
Many election laborers have already spoken to AFP about the prescertain and menaces they are receiving ahead of the November 5 vote.
– 75 million –
As of November 2, more than 75 million Americans had voted timely, according to a University of Florida database.
Most US states permit in-person voting or mail-in voting to permit people to deal with scheduling disputes or an inability to cast their ballots on election day itself on November 5.
– 244 million –
The number of Americans who will be eligible to vote in 2024, according to the Bipartisan Policy Caccess.
How many of those will actuassociate cast their ballot remains to be seen, of course. But the Pew Research Caccess says that the midterm elections of 2018 and 2022, and the pdwellntial vote of 2020, produced three of the highest turnouts of their benevolent seen in the United States in decades.
“About two-thirds (66 percent) of the voting-eligible population turned out for the 2020 pdwellntial election — the highest rate for any national election since 1900,” Pew says on its website.
That transprocrastinateedd to cforfeitly 155 million voters, according to the Census Bureau.
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