• PRINT EDITIONS
  • | CONTACT
  • | TEL: 304.645.1206 | E: hello@wvdn.com
Thursday, July 10, 2025
West Virginia Daily News
  • Home
  • News
  • Community
  • Obituaries
  • Sports
  • Government
    • All
    • City
    • County
    • State
    Governor Patrick Morrisey speaks during his press briefing on Wednesday, Jan. 29 after meeting with House and Senate leaders.

    Morrisey Sees Unique Opportunity to Grow West Virginia Economically

    Shelley Moore Capito

    Capito Votes to Confirm Sean Duffy for Transportation Secretary

    Capito, Whitehouse Announce EPW Subcommittee Assignments for the 119th Congress

    Senate President Randy Smith Names Leadership Team, Major Committee Chairmen for 87th Legislature

    Speaker Hanshaw Announces Plans for Upcoming 87th Legislature

    Miller’s Statement on Being Sworn in to her Fourth Term in Congress

    Trending Tags

    • Greenbrier County
    • Politics
    • Senate
    • Monroe County
    • White Sulphur Springs
    • Rainelle
    • Lewisburg
    • Alderson
    • City
    • County
    • State
  • Entertainment
  • PUBLIC NOTICES
    • PUBLIC LEGAL NOTICES
    • PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
    • STATEWIDE LEGALS SEARCH
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Community
  • Obituaries
  • Sports
  • Government
    • All
    • City
    • County
    • State
    Governor Patrick Morrisey speaks during his press briefing on Wednesday, Jan. 29 after meeting with House and Senate leaders.

    Morrisey Sees Unique Opportunity to Grow West Virginia Economically

    Shelley Moore Capito

    Capito Votes to Confirm Sean Duffy for Transportation Secretary

    Capito, Whitehouse Announce EPW Subcommittee Assignments for the 119th Congress

    Senate President Randy Smith Names Leadership Team, Major Committee Chairmen for 87th Legislature

    Speaker Hanshaw Announces Plans for Upcoming 87th Legislature

    Miller’s Statement on Being Sworn in to her Fourth Term in Congress

    Trending Tags

    • Greenbrier County
    • Politics
    • Senate
    • Monroe County
    • White Sulphur Springs
    • Rainelle
    • Lewisburg
    • Alderson
    • City
    • County
    • State
  • Entertainment
  • PUBLIC NOTICES
    • PUBLIC LEGAL NOTICES
    • PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
    • STATEWIDE LEGALS SEARCH
No Result
View All Result
West Virginia Daily News
No Result
View All Result
L-R Rod Graves, Anna Ziegler, Amy Moloney, Lavonne Paden, Ronnie Glover, Scott Mason, Laura Smith

Monroe County Farmland Protection Board acquires Conservation Easement

July 10, 2025
A classroom

College Student Helping Local Families with their Education Needs

July 10, 2025

Carnegie Hall Calendar of Events for July and August

July 10, 2025
Library Director Joann Hartzell is giving all she can to the Blood Drive

Red Cross Blood Drive to be held at the White Sulphur Springs Library

July 10, 2025
Photo provided by Wes Sheridan

Yurts on Potts Creek Blend Comfort, Local History and Nature for Unique Getaway

July 10, 2025

Tags

Art BU Business Carnegie Hall Charleston college Community County Court Dear Abby Dr EPA Fair Family Featured Gov Grant Greenbrier Greenbrier County Greenbrier East health Home Justice Land Last Lewisburg Local Man New NY Obituary Plan Project Ronceverte School Son State The Greenbrier University US VA Virginia West Virginia White Sulphur Springs WV
QR Code

Record Early Vote Leads To Tranquil Election Day At Polls

by The Associated Press
in National News
November 6, 2020
Reading Time: 4 mins read
0
Record Early Vote Leads To Tranquil Election Day At Polls
5
SHARES
33
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Despite fears of clashes at polling places, chaos sparked by the coronavirus pandemic and confusion due to disinformation and swiftly-changing voting rules, millions across the U.S. cast ballots in a historically contentious election with few problems.

About 103 million votes were cast before Election Day, an early voting push prompted by the pandemic. That took some of the pressure off polling places on Tuesday, which generally saw short or no lines as coronavirus cases were on the rise. Daily confirmed cases were up 43 percent over the past two weeks in the U.S., according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

Every Election Day comes with problems as millions of people try to cast ballots simultaneously in 50 states. But experts were relieved they were relatively rare at a time when partisan battles over voting reached a fever pitch.

“We were bracing for the worst, and we’ve been pleasantly surprised,” said Kristen Clarke of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.

Though the casting of ballots was relatively tranquil, legal storm clouds hang over the counting of those votes. Both parties had fought a massive battle in the courts trying to shape the contours of the election, and that seemed likely to continue beyond Tuesday.

President Donald Trump early Wednesday said he would take the election to the Supreme Court, although it was unclear what legal action he might pursue. The GOP has laid the groundwork for an effort to exclude ballots that arrived after polls closed in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, something several other states permit. Trump has railed over several days about the high court’s pre-election refusal to rule out those ballots and said he’d go in “with lawyers.”

Trump has spent much of the campaign groundlessly trying to sow doubt about the accuracy of the vote count and casting doubt on mail balloting. It led to great voter stress — but fears didn’t materialize at the polls.

“A lot of people were fearful to come out and vote today, and for me I didn’t want fear to stop me from voting on Election Day,” said Sadiyyah Porter-Lowdry, 39, who cast her ballot at a church in Charlotte, North Carolina.

In Iowa, hand sanitizer on voters’ hands caused ballot counting machines to jam briefly in Des Moines, but the problem was fixed and voting went smoothly. Officials reported a calm day.

“No armed people, no protesters, no pickups with Trump flags like they’ve seen elsewhere. Our voters have been ‘Iowa Nice’ through-and-through, and they have been patient,” said Joel Miller, the commissioner of elections in Linn County, the state’s second largest, which includes Cedar Rapids.

In Pennsylvania, a judge in Democrat Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton extended voting at two precincts inside an elementary school for 45 minutes beyond the normal 8 p.m. close of voting because machines had been down earlier in the day, said Lackawanna County spokesman Joe D’Arienzo. The last Las Vegas-area voters cast their ballots shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday after a court order kept 30 polling places open later in Nevada’s largest county, where some polling places had been slow to open.

There also were a few other issues with voting technology. Electronic pollbooks from voting equipment vendor KnowInk failed in Ohio’s second-largest county and in a small Texas county, forcing voting delays as officials replaced them with paper pollbooks.

Those who did vote on Election Day included some who wanted to vote by mail but waited too long to request a ballot or didn’t receive their ballots in time. Election offices had to scramble to rejigger procedures to allow for a huge surge in mail voting as voters sought a way to avoid exposure to the coronavirus at the polls.

Kaal Ferguson, 26, planned to vote by mail but was concerned he hadn’t left enough time to send his ballot back. So he voted in person in Atlanta, despite worries he could be exposed to COVID-19 by fellow voters.

“Obviously everybody has their right to vote,” he said. “But it’s kind of scary knowing that there’s not a place just for them to vote if they’d had it, so you could easily be exposed.”

Despite warnings of clashes between Trump and Biden supporters, there were no wide-scale instances of voter intimidation. Indeed, in battleground Michigan, demonstrators from the opposing camps initially shouted at each other through bullhorns outside a suburban Detroit polling place, but ended up joining together to sing “God Bless America.”

Law enforcement officials breathed an audible sigh of relief.

“I would say it is blissfully uneventful,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel told reporters. “We’ve had virtually no disturbances of any kind.”

There were reports, as there are every election, of efforts to discourage people from voting that surfaced in robocalls in a few states. The FBI was investigating. But there were no large-scale cyber attacks that upended voting.

Gen. Paul Nakasone, the commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, said in a statement that he was “confident the actions we’ve taken against adversaries over the past several weeks and months have ensured they’re not going to interfere in our elections.”

Instead, voters were often pleasantly surprised. Anthony Medina, of Phoenix, who turned 18 four months ago, accompanied his cousin, who turned 18 on Election Day, to the polls Tuesday.

“I wanted to see how it was to vote in person because I’ve never voted,” Medina said. “It was kind of nerve-wracking because I didn’t know if they were gonna ask for more stuff than they did. But it went pretty good overall.”

Amber McReynolds, a former Denver clerk whose group Vote from Home has helped local election offices step up their mail voting options during the pandemic, said the ability for more than half of all voters to cast ballots before Tuesday was clearly a significant factor in the quieter day.

She noted that the fairly smooth election operations came even as Congress wouldn’t give local officials an estimated $3.6 billion they needed to help transform their systems during the pandemic.

“Given the difficulty elected officials faced with Congress not giving them enough money, with all the disinformation and political fights — yes, I think today was an astounding success on all front,” McReynolds said.

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access.

The Associated Press

Related

Shelley Moore Capito
National News

Capito Statement on Certifying Donald J. Trump’s Presidential Election Victory

January 7, 2025
National News

Biden-Harris Administration, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Announce Over $122 Million from the America the Beautiful Challenge to Restore Lands and Waters

December 2, 2024
A sign displayed in a Greenbrier County yard
National News

Trump secures return to White House

November 6, 2024
National News

Gold Star Mothers and Family Day – September 29, 2024

September 25, 2024
Load More
[adrotate group="11"]
Next Post
Appalachian Headwaters Launches ABCHoney.org For Natural Honey, Related Products

Appalachian Headwaters Launches ABCHoney.org For Natural Honey, Related Products

West Virginia Daily News

The West Virginia Daily News has been serving the Greenbrier Valley and southeastern West Virginia since 1852.

Learn more

Information

  • Home
  • Subscribe to the WV Daily News
  • Grants & Assistance
  • Submit News and Events
  • Privacy Policy
  • Ethics, Standards & Corrections
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Contact Us

Copyright © 2022 The West Virginia Daily News, powered by ECENT CORPORATION. All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • Menu Item
  • _____________
  • Home
  • Editions
  • News
    • Local News
    • National News
    • State News
    • Crime
    • Business and Tech
  • Community
  • Obituaries
  • Sports
    • Local Sports
    • High School Sports
    • College Sports
  • Government
    • City
    • County
    • State
  • Entertainment
  • Public Notices

Copyright © 2022 The West Virginia Daily News, powered by ECENT CORPORATION. All Rights Reserved.