More voters in US cast ballots ahead of Nov 3 early voting deadline

The Star

The United States has recorded millions of early voters now about a week before the Nov 5 elections for presidency and other Senate and House of Representatives seats.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

Transcript

00:00Just hold right here.

00:02Is this okay?

00:04Yes ma'am.

00:14You can step right over there.

00:16I'll see you right there.

00:18I'll get you whatever one you want.

00:24You can take a picture.

00:26Thank you for coming.

00:30It's embarrassing.

00:32Just simply embarrassing.

00:34It's beneath any president.

00:36But that's what we're getting used to.

00:38That's why this election is so important.

00:40You know, most presidential scholars

00:42I've spoken to

00:44talk about the single most consequential thing

00:46about a president is character.

00:48Character.

00:50And he puts that in question

00:52every time he opens his mouth.

01:00So that was anyone Tuesday?

01:02Well, I feel like

01:04the election is a free and

01:06fair process, regardless of

01:08what he said.

01:10I think losers always cry the loudest.

01:12I feel like for those

01:14who vote, who take the time to read the ballots

01:16and actually

01:18go and do their civic duty

01:20there's no problem.

01:22There shouldn't be any problem. However, like I said

01:24losers cry the loudest.

01:26I know he's a little arrogant, but I feel

01:28like from what he did for

01:30over four years ago, the economy

01:32was better. It stinks as far as

01:34I'm concerned. We're having a hard

01:36time. My husband's self-employed and we're having

01:38a hard time making a living

01:40because of the way the economy

01:42is right now. And we just feel like

01:44that hopefully he's going to put us back on

01:46some kind of track. And I'll be

01:48honest with you, I'm worried about what the world is

01:50coming to. He fight for this country.

01:52That's how I like it. He put

01:54his heart into it. He fight for the country.

01:56He fight for the people in the United States.

01:58I mean, there's

02:00nothing I can do about it really, so I just have to put my

02:02trust in it and hope, you know, and trust

02:04the government to make sure

02:06every ballot is counted correctly.

02:14This cycle, it's been pretty

02:16steady the entire time. To the

02:18extent that you see behind me, that

02:20usually happens about when we get to

02:22about a week out.

02:24Obviously, it's a week

02:26till election day. It's on

02:28the people's top of mind

02:30and that's when we're the busiest.

02:32But we've had over 88,000

02:34people that have voted in person

02:36here in Franklin County.

02:38Yesterday we had about 7,700

02:40and we anticipate that that number

02:42will go up as we go

02:44through the end of early in-person voting

02:46which will end on Sunday of this week.

02:48I just thought the crowd

02:50would be a lot smaller than what it is now,

02:52but I would never wait for the last minute.

02:54I always come and vote earlier.

02:56It's important. I want to make sure that my

02:58vote is counted. Voting in general,

03:00it's important. We've got to get out here. Every

03:02vote counts. Every voice matters.

03:04I come out here for myself, for my nieces,

03:06for women everywhere.

03:08My rights are human rights. Women's rights

03:10are human rights. Abortion is healthcare.

03:12We're here for it.

03:14I have sisters.

03:16I have a wife. I have

03:18a mother. And considering

03:20some of the issues that

03:22have been decided

03:24at the federal and now state level

03:26in this nation over the past four years,

03:28I decided more

03:30than ever to come out early

03:32to make sure that I didn't miss my chance

03:34while working on Tuesday.

03:36I didn't want to come after polls close.

03:38The major concern which I have

03:40is

03:42our involvement

03:44in the rest of the world.

03:46What we are doing

03:48in Ukraine

03:50and especially what we are doing

03:52in

03:54Gaza,

03:56in Palestine,

03:58and in Lebanon now.

04:00I don't want

04:02us to be involved in

04:04someone else's war.

04:06We have enough of our

04:08own issues which we

04:10should be taking care of

04:12rather than spending

04:14billions and billions of dollars

04:16on others' wars.

Category

Transcript

Recommended