OKDIARIO witnessed the few conditions required by the American electoral colleges to vote in the elections. He voting system of the world’s first democracy allows an American citizen to exercise their right to vote only upon presentation of proof of residence. They do not require a national identity document or any other certificate proving the individual’s personality.
This fact reveals a glaring lack of security in terms of proving the origin of the ballot, something the Republican Party has already warned against.
From the training led by Donald J. Trump, they assured that the security of the vote should not be exaggerated. could lead to electoral fraud. A crime feared by many Republican voters after the turbulent 2020 election, when Joe Biden took the White House from Trump and his supporters accused the Democratic Party of falsifying the results.
It must be said that the electoral college system of the United States allows the votes of certain states to have crucial weight in the election. Instead of winning directly by vote total, candidates must win strategic states to obtain the necessary 270 electoral votes. In 2016, it was precisely for this reason that Trump managed to defeat Hillary Clinton, obtaining a majority in key states, even though he lost the popular vote by almost three million votes.
This time, Donald Trump must win Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes, a state that has proven to be the key to getting to the White House, just as Ohio always has been. But what changed during these elections so that Pennsylvania emerge as a key state?
Pennsylvania is traditionally part of what is considered the Blue Wall (blue wall), color with which Democrats are identified, alongside Wisconsin and Michigan. Instead, in 2016, former President Donald Trump won Pennsylvania by breaking the Democratic wall. In 2020, President Joe Biden won this state with just over 1% of voters. These narrow margins have turned this state into a battlegroundwhich also served as a study for Democratic strategists on why Hillary Clinton lost Pennsylvania in 2016.
