US voters are casting their votes in one of the most pisive races in decades, US Election 2020, the race in which Democratic candidate, former Vice President, Joe Biden, is competing with Republican President Donald Trump tonight, Tuesday.
The first polling stations opened their doors at ten in the morning GMT Tuesday is located in the state of Vermont.
Nearly 100 million voters had already cast their ballots before voting day, indicating that this election will witness the largest turnout in nearly a century.
The two candidates spent the last hours of their campaign attending election rallies held in a number of inconclusive (or swinging) states, according to BBC.
Despite Biden's lead in most nationwide polls, these polls indicate that the race will be intense in states that may decide the US election outcome.
Some businesses and shops in Washington DC and New York City began covering their facades in anticipation of the outbreak of violence.
It is reported that American voters vote at the state level and not at the national level to choose their president.
To win the presidency, a candidate must have at least 270 votes in the so-called electoral college. Each state obtains a certain number of members of this complex. The total number of electoral college votes is 538.
The mechanism by which the US electoral system operates may explain why a candidate may win the majority of the vote nationally - as Hillary Clinton did in the 2016 election - but still loses.
The 2020 US elections coincide with the spread of the novel coronavirus. The United States has recorded more infections and deaths due to the virus than any other country in the world, and on Monday alone, it recorded more than 84,000 new cases.
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