Please change your mind, Don urges Hillary’s early voters

Please change your mind, Don urges Hillary’s early voters

IANSUpdated: Thursday, May 30, 2019, 11:37 AM IST
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US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on November 1, 2016. With one week to go until Election Day, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were barnstorming battleground states Tuesday, as the Democratic nominee tried to pivot away from attacks on her protection of US secrets. / AFP PHOTO / Jewel SAMAD |

Washington : Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has urged American citizens who have in early voting already cast their ballots for his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton to change their votes, reports IANS.

“This is a message for any Democratic voters who have already cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton and are having a bad case of buyer’s remorse — in other words you want to change your vote — Wisconsin is one of several states where you can change your early ballot if you think you’ve made a mistake,” Trump said on Tuesday.

In a rally in Eau Calire in Wisconsin, Trump said a lot of things had come to light since early voting began, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) reopening of the investigation against Clinton for using her private email server while she was Secretary of State (2009-2013), Efe news reported.

The real-estate tycoon said the option to change early vote was allowed only in some states like Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, all of them presumably Democratic states. For example, in Pennsylvania, voters who wish to switch their vote have to show up at the polling station on the election-day on November 8 and tell the staff that they would like to vote again.

The latest polls place Trump and Clinton neck to neck in the contest, following the reopening of the FBI investigation. Early voting in some US states is going ahead full steam, for example, in Florida, where 33 percent of the registered voters — over four million — have already cast their vote.

Early voting, a unique feature of the American democracy, is gaining popularity in this presidential election as nearly 28 million voters have already cast their ballots in the polls scheduled for November 8, reports PTI. This was evident at an election rally addressed by former US President Bill Clinton in St Petersburg in Florida, where most of the attendees raised their hands in unison when asked by the state’s governor Charlie Crist: Who have already voted?

The 28-million figure for early voting this year is quite impressive given that in 2012 presidential election an estimated 126 million people had exercised their right to franchise. In both 2008 and 2012 more than 30 per cent of the people cast their ballot through early voting.         “Early voting is convenient,” Clinton told her supporters at Sanford.        Clinton is a strong advocate of early voting. Exit polls suggests that she is leading in early voting.

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