The first electoral colleges in the United States opened this Tuesday at 5:00 local time (10:00 GMT) to start a day in which the Americans will determine the composition of Congress, which will condition the last two years of the President Joe Biden.
The first polling stations to open were some in the small state of Vermontt, in the eastern United States and bordering Canada, where voting is carried out mainly by mail and where the polls are scheduled to close at 7 p.m. (00:00 GMT on Wednesday).
The states of Maine, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois they open their polling stations an hour laterfollowed by Ohio, North Carolina, and West Virginia half an hour later, and Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Delaware, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida at 12 p.m. :00 GMT).
Polling places open on a staggered basis in the rest of the US states., which is divided into nine time zones, and the closure will take place in most between seven and eight local time. in today’s election all the members of the House of Representatives and a third of the seats in the Senate will be electedwhich are currently controlled by Democrats, but polls suggest Republicans could regain control of both chambers.
The polls will begin to close between 18:00 local time (23:00 GMT) and 19:00 (00:00 on Wednesday), but it is possible that the final results will not be known until much later, especially if it is a question of very close elections between the candidates.
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