Many polling stations in the US are reporting high turnout, a change from normally sluggish numbers that come in midterm election years.
A suburban Chicago polling station has reported twice the number of voters compared to 2016 — a presidential election year — while in downtown Chicago, people gathered before polls opened at 6:00 a.m.
In the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove, at a church along a leafy street, 500 people had voted in the first two hours of the morning — twice as many as two years ago, according to poll worker David Mendalski.
Virginia residents line up in the pouring rain to vote at Robious Middle School November 6, 2018 in Midlothian, Virginia. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)
The story was the same in Maryland, where a Montgomery County election official reported that turnout has been “astounding” early on, speculating that it might also surpass participation in presidential elections.
There was a sense of urgency among voters flocking to the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, where production artist Gilad Foss warned that democratic values were “kind of under attack.”
Chicago, Brooklyn, and Montgomery County are all Democratic strongholds
— with AFP
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