A quiet morning in Michigan due to early voterspublished at 15:5415:54Madeline Halpert Reporting from MichiganIt’s relatively quiet here in liberal Washtenaw County in Michigan, where more than 3.2m people have cast early votes.That’s over half of the total voters in 2020, when 5.6m people filled out a ballot.Courtney Kutcher walked to the polls in Ann Arbor with her coffee on this warm morning, wanting the satisfaction of seeing her ballot go into the machine on election day.She voted for Harris because she believes the candidate will “give our kids, both boys and girls, a better future in America”.The Harris campaign is counting on moms like Ms Kutcher to turn out in large numbers in liberal counties in the state to make up for Trump’s expected wins in more rural areas.Share
A slow start in storm-ravaged North Carolinapublished at 15:5115:51Brandon Drenon Reporting from North CarolinaI’ve just arrived to a polling location in Buncombe County, North Carolina, one of the areas most devastated at the end of September by Hurricane Helene.With little time to respond, the state’s election officials placed generator-powered “festival tents” for voters here and at six other locations in the region.Where I am, in the Broad River Township, the wounds of the storm are still raw. Dump trucks carrying debris led the way as I made my way to the polling site on this rainy Tuesday morning.“Just what we need, more rain,” jokes Amanda Lambert, an event staff member who’s been hired to monitor this polling site.By 09:00 local time (14:00 GMT), roughly 35 people had made their way up the windy mountainside – past chain sawed tree trunks and crumbled concrete roadsides – to cast their votes here.It’s been fairly slow going this morning.But Lilian Govus, Buncombe County’s communication director, estimates that western North Carolina will break its total voter turnout record of 78% that it set in 2020.
It’s relatively quiet here in liberal Washtenaw County in Michigan, where more than 3.2m people have cast early votes.That’s over half of the total voters in 2020, when 5.6m people filled out a ballot.Courtney Kutcher walked to the polls in Ann Arbor with her coffee on this warm morning, wanting the satisfaction of seeing her ballot go into the machine on election day.She voted for Harris because she believes the candidate will “give our kids, both boys and girls, a better future in America”.The Harris campaign is counting on moms like Ms Kutcher to turn out in large numbers in liberal counties in the state to make up for Trump’s expected wins in more rural areas.Share
Brandon Drenon
I’ve just arrived to a polling location in Buncombe County, North Carolina, one of the areas most devastated at the end of September by Hurricane Helene.With little time to respond, the state’s election officials placed generator-powered “festival tents” for voters here and at six other locations in the region.Where I am, in the Broad River Township, the wounds of the storm are still raw. Dump trucks carrying debris led the way as I made my way to the polling site on this rainy Tuesday morning.“Just what we need, more rain,” jokes Amanda Lambert, an event staff member who’s been hired to monitor this polling site.By 09:00 local time (14:00 GMT), roughly 35 people had made their way up the windy mountainside – past chain sawed tree trunks and crumbled concrete roadsides – to cast their votes here.It’s been fairly slow going this morning.But Lilian Govus, Buncombe County’s communication director, estimates that western North Carolina will break its total voter turnout record of 78% that it set in 2020.