The much-awaited US. elections kicked off Tuesday with polls opening Tuesday across the country, including the seven battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, for the 2024 United States of America presidential election, Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, and her Republican rival, Donald Trump, are going head-to-head in a race that remains too close to call. Election Day is just one of the many key dates in this hard-fought presidential race, even Election Day voting seems to go smoothly as there seems to be a great deal of enthusiasm as voters across the country head to the polls, with long lines reported in various places.
In the first hours of voting, some isolated reports emerged of hiccups common to every Election Day, including delays in getting e-pollbooks up and running in Louisville, Kentucky, and a power outage requiring the use of a generator at a polling location in St. Louis, Missouri, according to AP. In Pittsburgh and the surrounding areas in Pennsylvania, two polling places faced delays opening when election judges did not arrive or showed up late.
Allegheny County officials said one of the sites was up and running, and the other would be soon, the news agency reported. ‘Trump is so impatient and given to simplistic narratives’ Dan Perry, former regional editor for the Associated Press and former chairman of the Foreign Press Association in Israel, told Al Jazeera the Israelis are paying a “t.
