Washington.- Most of the polling stations on the east coast of the United States, which this Tuesday celebrates the mid-term elections, closed their doors at 00:00 GMT on Wednesday.
The first to close the day, at 11:00 p.m. GMT on Tuesday, were Indiana and Kentucky, in the midwest and south of the country. They were followed an hour later by Florida, Georgia, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia.
At 00:30 GMT on Wednesday and again in the eastern United States, it will be the turn of North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia.
The last state in the country to put an end to election day will be Alaska, which with two time zones, will do so at 06:00 GMT on Wednesday with the closure of polling stations in its western part.
Americans today choose the 435 members of the House of Representatives, 35 of the 100 senators and 36 governors, as well as thousands of local and state positions, and hold referendums on issues such as the legalization of marijuana or the abortion.
Results may take days to be known in some states. In the 2020 presidential elections, the country’s major media took four days to declare the current president the winner, Joe Biden and, for the elections this Tuesday, the White House has already warned that “counting the ballots in an orderly manner takes time.”
These mid-term elections are the first since the presidential ones, which were marked by unfounded allegations of fraud by the Republican side and by the then president himself, Donald Trump (2017-2021), who still considers that he won two years ago.
