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Twitter, Facebook suspend some accounts as US election misinformation spreads online - CNA

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday (Nov 3) suspended several recently created right-leaning news accounts posting information about voting in the hotly contested US election for violating their policies.

Twitter said the accounts had been suspended for violating its policy against "coordination", posting identical content while appearing independent or engaging in other covertly automated behaviour. Facebook suspended them for inauthentic behaviour.

One of those suspended, SVNewsAlerts, had more then 78,000 Twitter followers, after adding more than 10,000 in the past week.

READ: Twitter, Facebook outline action on posts claiming early US election victory

The account frequently warned of election-related unrest and highlighted issues with voting safety and reliability. It pointed to fraud claims about Democrats and called attention to Republican President Donald Trump's rallies and speeches.

Other accounts suspended by Twitter included FJNewsReporter, Crisis_Intel and Faytuks.

A Facebook page also named SVNewsAlerts, which was suspended on Tuesday afternoon, had more than 20,000 followers. Facebook declined to comment further.

False or exaggerated reports about voting fraud and delays at the polls circulated on social media throughout the day, in some cases helped along by Republican accounts and online publications.

The FBI and the New York attorney general also said they were looking into a spate of mysterious robocalls urging people to stay home, which were reported in multiple battleground states.

READ: US judge orders postal service to check for delayed ballots in battleground states

The hashtag #StopTheSteal spiked from a few dozen mentions to more than 2,000 mentions over a 15-minute period in the morning, according to media intelligence firm Zignal Labs.

Zignal said unfounded claims about closed polling stations and excessively long lines in Republican-leaning areas in Pennsylvania, one of the most hotly contested states, received more than 33,000 mentions on Twitter.

Twitter appended fact-checking labels to multiple tweets from the @PhillyGOP account, which was among those using #StopTheSteal. The Philadelphia Republican Party did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the Twitter labels.

Far-right sites Breitbart and the Gateway Pundit both published articles claiming "the steal is on" in Pennsylvania that racked up thousands of shares on Facebook and Twitter.

In one video shared widely among conservative audiences, a Trump poll-watcher was seen being turned away from a site. Philadelphia officials investigated and concluded the man had mistakenly been barred under an expired law, which required authorisation to enter a specific polling spot. He was then admitted.

The video was viewed 2.4 million times on Twitter.

Followers of the conspiracy movement QAnon also spread the Pennsylvania reports, according to researchers at misinformation tracking firm Alethea Group.

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Live updates: America decides between Trump and Biden in historic US election - CNA

Polls have begun to close in parts of the United States in the final hours of a historic US vote - set against the worst pandemic of the century and a global economic crisis - that will decide if President Donald Trump gets another four years in office or if his Democratic rival Joe Biden will be sent to the White House.

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US election: Trump, Biden tweet to rally supporters as polls open - The Straits Times

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump thanked his supporters and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden made a final appeal for Americans to vote as polls opened across the United States on Tuesday (Nov 3). 

Election Day marked the finale of a tumultuous election season marked by a surge in early voting, legal challenges over ballot counting and increasingly, fears of violence in the aftermath of Election Day. 

The country appeared headed for a record high voter turnout, testament to how fired up the electorate is amid a surging pandemic and after a summer of racial justice protests. 

Almost 100 million voters had already cast their votes before Election Day by mail or in person through early voting, more than 70 per cent of the total in 2016. That election had set the current record of 139 million people voting. Some 240 million Americans are eligible to vote this year, out of a population of about 330 million. 

In a tweet on Tuesday, Mr Trump thanked his supporters and said he will never let them down. 

“Your hopes are my hopes, your dreams are my dreams, and your future is what I am fighting for every single day!” he wrote. 

Mr Biden, meanwhile, rallied his supporters to go out and vote. 

“In 2008 and 2012, you placed your trust in me to help lead this country alongside Barack Obama. Today, I’m asking for your trust once again – this time, in Kamala and me,” he tweeted. “We can heal the soul of this nation — I promise we won’t let you down.”

Both candidates spent the eve of the election making a final push in key swing states - mostly Midwestern ones which Mr Trump won by razor-thin margins in 2016 - that could push either of them over the threshold of 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.

Mr Trump did a whirlwind five rallies in the four battleground states of North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, telling supporters that he would win and warning of violence from the losing side.

"Biden's far-left supporters are threatening to loot and rob tomorrow if they don't get their way," he said, adding they would be harshly prosecuted.

Mr Biden held three events in Pennsylvania and one in Ohio, slamming Mr Trump's divisive presidency and promising to get the coronavirus under control. America recorded its second-highest single-day total of more than 91,300 new cases on Monday, as the virus surges in the same Midwestern states that Mr Trump needs to win.

"We are going to beat this virus. We are going to get it under control. And the first step to beating this virus is to beat Donald Trump," said Mr Biden.

Though Mr Biden is favoured to win, things are still very much up in the air. The latest opinion polls continue to have Mr Biden ahead of Mr Trump nationally but his lead has narrowed slightly, with the race tightening in some key battleground states.

As at Monday, Mr Biden had a 6½ to eight-point advantage over Mr Trump nationwide, a margin of around one point down from seven days earlier, according to poll aggregator RealClearPolitics and poll site FiveThirtyEight.

Both men are tied in Arizona and North Carolina, according to a Reuters-Ipsos poll that also showed Mr Biden edging ahead in Florida. Meanwhile, a Quinnipiac poll also showed a narrow Biden lead in Florida, as well as Ohio, while a Monmouth University poll found Mr Biden's edge in Pennsylvania had narrowed.

"We're going to win Florida. If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole thing," Mr Trump told supporters in North Carolina.

Both parties are also battling over which ballots should be counted. On Monday, a federal judge ruled against a Republican push to reject 127,000 ballots cast in drive-through tents over the past few days in Harris County, Texas, a Democratic-leaning county in an otherwise red-leaning state.

On Monday, Mr Trump criticised an earlier Supreme Court decision allowing mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania and North Carolina to be received and counted after Election Day, as long as they were postmarked by Election Day.

"It will allow rampant and unchecked cheating and will undermine our entire systems of laws. It will also induce violence in the streets. Something must be done!" said Mr Trump in a tweet that was marked as misleading by Twitter.

But the prospect of unrest has the nation on edge. Retail stores were boarded up with plywood in cities from Washington DC - mere blocks from the White House - to Manhattan and Southern California.

States, including Massachusetts and Oregon, put their National Guard on standby in case post-election protests turn violent.


Workers board up a Zara store ahead of election results in Manhattan, New York, on Nov 2, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

Whether a winner will be called on Election Night may depend on how close the contest is, although candidates may declare victory before it becomes a certainty.

Mr Trump has urged that votes received after Nov 3 not be counted, and Axios reported on Sunday that Mr Trump may declare victory on Tuesday night if it looks like he is ahead.

The Biden campaign said in a briefing on Monday that "under no scenario" would Mr Trump be declared victor on Election Night, arguing that Mr Biden had more pathways to the presidency.

"When Donald Trump says that ballots counted after midnight should be invalidated, he's just making that up," said Mr Biden's campaign manager Jennifer O'Malley Dillon.

"There is no historical precedent that any of our elections have ever run and been counted and completely verified on election night. We do not expect that to happen in 2020," she added.

For live updates and results, follow our US election live coverage.

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Timeline: What to expect on US election night and beyond - CNA

NEW YORK: The coronavirus pandemic, an unprecedented number of ballots cast early, the lack of consistency about how these votes will be counted, as well as ongoing legal battles have made the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election one of the hardest to predict. 

As Americans head to polling stations on Tuesday (Nov 3), the question is not just whether Republican President Donald Trump will win a second four-year term or be defeated by his Democratic rival Joe Biden, but also when the result will be known.

READ: US Election Day begins as voters decide on Trump's fate

The latest opinion polls show the race is close enough in the battleground states to swing the outcome to either party, even as Biden leads Trump in national polls.

Some of these states do not begin to count early votes until after polling stations close, and some allow ballots that arrive after Election Day to be included as long as they are postmarked by Nov 3. If the presidential race depends on the outcomes in these states, America could be waiting for days.

Experts have cautioned against reading too much into early returns, which could be distorted by how each state processes the votes not cast in-person on Election Day.

Here are some moments to look for on Tuesday and beyond:

NOV 3

5pm ET (2200 GMT) - Edison Research will release preliminary findings from its exit polls, which are based on in-person interviews with voters on Election Day, in-person interviews at early voting centres before Nov 3, and telephone interviews with people who voted by mail.

The initial data will look at national and state voter sentiment and motivations, but not detailed percentage estimates. Results from ballot questions in individual states will be released after voting ends in the state.

Edison will refine and update its national and state exit poll results through the night, gathering more voter responses and adjusting the weightings to reflect turnout.

6pm ET (2300-0000 GMT) - some polling stations begin to close in the Republican strongholds of Indiana and Kentucky, the first in the country to close.

7pm ET (0000 GMT) - voting ends in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Virginia and Vermont.

Some polling stations begin to close in Florida, but many remain open until 8pm.

The initial results from Florida could favour Biden due to the high volume of early ballots that the state began to scan more than three weeks ago; opinion polls suggest more Democrats voted early, whereas more Republicans waited until Election Day. If there is a "blue mirage", it will fade as more in-person ballots from Tuesday are tallied.

READ: Biden leads in polls going into Election Day but battlegrounds tight

7.30pm ET (0030 GMT) - polls close in North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia.

Like Florida, the initial results from North Carolina and Ohio could favour Biden because the states began to scan early ballots weeks before Election Day. A truer picture of the vote will emerge as more ballots are tabulated.

North Carolina counts ballots that arrive as late as Nov 12 if they are postmarked by Nov 3. Ohio accepts ballots 10 days after the election if they are postmarked by Nov 2.

8pm ET (0100 GMT) - voting ends in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Washington DC.

Pennsylvania does not begin to process early votes until Election Day and the state will accept mail-in ballots up to three days after the election if they are postmarked by Nov 3. As a result, the initial vote counts from Pennsylvania may show a "red mirage" favouring Trump until the absentee ballots are counted, experts say.

READ: Trump or Biden? What impact the US election result may have on Asia

8.30pm ET (0130 GMT) - Reuters expects to publish updated national exit poll results from Edison Research, with percentage estimates of support for Biden vs Trump.

Polling stations close in Arkansas.

9pm ET (0200 GMT) - voting ends in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Like Pennsylvania, the early results from Michigan and Wisconsin are expected to favor Trump because ballots cannot be counted before Election Day. (Michigan does allow some ballots to be opened, but they cannot be counted.)

Arizona allows ballots to be scanned 14 days before the election. 

READ: In photos: Scenes from the campaign trail as US election goes down to the wire

10pm ET (0300 GMT) - polls close in Iowa, Montana, Nevada and Utah.

Iowa allows ballot envelopes to be opened on the Saturday before the election and tabulating to begin on Monday. Ballots postmarked by Nov 2 can arrive as late as the Monday after the election.

Nevada allows ballot scanning to begin 14 days before the election, and accepts ballots up to seven days after the election if they are postmarked by Nov 3.

11pm ET (0400 GMT) - voting ends in California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

12am ET (0500 GMT) - polls close in Hawaii.

1am ET (0600 GMT) - voting ends in Alaska.

DEC 8

States have until this date, known as the "safe harbour" deadline under federal law, to resolve any disputes over their vote totals and certify the winner. If a state fails to finalise its vote count by then, Congress is no longer required to accept its results under the Electoral College system.

DEC 14

Members of the Electoral College cast their ballots for president. Under the US system, the winner of each state's popular vote earns that state's electoral votes, which are apportioned by population. The candidate who receives a majority of the 538 electoral votes available, or 270, wins the presidency.

READ: Win the vote but still lose? Behold the US Electoral College

JAN 6, 2021

Congress meets at 1pm in Washington to count the electoral votes and declare a winner.

JAN 20, 2021

Inauguration Day. The winner and his running mate are sworn in as president and vice president at the US Capitol in Washington.

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Trump says he feels 'very good' about chances, will declare 'when there's victory' in US election - The Straits Times

WASHINGTON (AFP, BLOOMBERG) - US President Donald Trump said he felt good about his chances for victory as the US election opened on Tuesday (Nov 3), predicting that he would register big victories in key states such as Florida and Arizona.

"We feel very good," a hoarse-voiced Mr Trump told Fox News in a phone interview. "I think we'll have victory."

Mr Trump said he expected victory in all the key states that will decide the election.

"We think we are winning Texas very big. We think we are winning Florida very big. We think we are winning Arizona very big," he said.

"I think we are going to do very well in North Carolina. I think we are going to do well in Pennsylvania. We think we are doing very well everywhere."

Mr Trump started his morning activities calling into the Fox & Friends programme and was asked about Democratic concerns that he may declare victory prematurely before mail-in votes are counted in key states.

"At what point will you declare victory," one of the hosts, Mr Steve Doocy, asked.

"When there's victory," Mr Trump replied.

"I think we'll have victory. But only when there's victory. I mean, there's no reason to play games. I look at it as being a very solid chance of winning here."

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Trump v Biden: US heads to the polls on Election Day as candidates tweet to rally supporters - The Straits Times

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump thanked his supporters and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden made a final appeal for Americans to vote as polls opened across the United States on Monday (Nov 3). 

Election Day marked the finale of a tumultuous election season marked by a surge in early voting, legal challenges over ballot counting and increasingly, fears of violence in the aftermath of Election Day. 

The country appeared headed for a record high voter turnout, testament to how fired up the electorate is amid a surging pandemic and after a summer of racial justice protests. 

Almost 100 million voters had already cast their votes before Election Day by mail or in person through early voting, more than 70 per cent of the total in 2016. That election had set the current record of 139 million people voting. Some 240 million Americans are eligible to vote this year, out of a population of about 330 million. 

In a tweet yesterday, Mr Trump thanked his supporters and said he will never let them down. 

“Your hopes are my hopes, your dreams are my dreams, and your future is what I am fighting for every single day!” he wrote. 

Mr Biden, meanwhile, rallied his supporters to go out and vote. 

“”In 2008 and 2012, you placed your trust in me to help lead this country alongside Barack Obama. Today, I’m asking for your trust once again – this time, in Kamala and me,” he tweeted. “We can heal the soul of this nation — I promise we won’t let you down.”

Both candidates spent the eve of the election making a final push in key swing states - mostly Midwestern ones which Mr Trump won by razor-thin margins in 2016 - that could push either of them over the threshold of 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.

Mr Trump did a whirlwind five rallies in the four battleground states of North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, telling supporters that he would win and warning of violence from the losing side.

"Biden's far-left supporters are threatening to loot and rob tomorrow if they don't get their way," he said, adding they would be harshly prosecuted.

Mr Biden held three events in Pennsylvania and one in Ohio, slamming Mr Trump's divisive presidency and promising to get the coronavirus under control. America recorded its second-highest single-day total of more than 91,300 new cases on Monday, as the virus surges in the same Midwestern states that Mr Trump needs to win.

"We are going to beat this virus. We are going to get it under control. And the first step to beating this virus is to beat Donald Trump," said Mr Biden.

Though Mr Biden is favoured to win, things are still very much up in the air. The latest opinion polls continue to have Mr Biden ahead of Mr Trump nationally but his lead has narrowed slightly, with the race tightening in some key battleground states.

As at Monday, Mr Biden had a 6½ to eight-point advantage over Mr Trump nationwide, a margin of around one point down from seven days earlier, according to poll aggregator RealClearPolitics and poll site FiveThirtyEight.

Both men are tied in Arizona and North Carolina, according to a Reuters-Ipsos poll that also showed Mr Biden edging ahead in Florida. Meanwhile, a Quinnipiac poll also showed a narrow Biden lead in Florida, as well as Ohio, while a Monmouth University poll found Mr Biden's edge in Pennsylvania had narrowed.

"We're going to win Florida. If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole thing," Mr Trump told supporters in North Carolina.

Both parties are also battling over which ballots should be counted. On Monday, a federal judge ruled against a Republican push to reject 127,000 ballots cast in drive-through tents over the past few days in Harris County, Texas, a Democratic-leaning county in an otherwise red-leaning state.

On Monday, Mr Trump criticised an earlier Supreme Court decision allowing mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania and North Carolina to be received and counted after Election Day, as long as they were postmarked by Election Day.

"It will allow rampant and unchecked cheating and will undermine our entire systems of laws. It will also induce violence in the streets. Something must be done!" said Mr Trump in a tweet that was marked as misleading by Twitter.

But the prospect of unrest has the nation on edge. Retail stores were boarded up with plywood in cities from Washington DC - mere blocks from the White House - to Manhattan and Southern California.

States, including Massachusetts and Oregon, put their National Guard on standby in case post-election protests turn violent.


Workers board up a Zara store ahead of election results in Manhattan, New York, on Nov 2, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

Whether a winner will be called on Election Night may depend on how close the contest is, although candidates may declare victory before it becomes a certainty.

Mr Trump has urged that votes received after Nov 3 not be counted, and Axios reported on Sunday that Mr Trump may declare victory on Tuesday night if it looks like he is ahead.

The Biden campaign said in a briefing on Monday that "under no scenario" would Mr Trump be declared victor on Election Night, arguing that Mr Biden had more pathways to the presidency.

"When Donald Trump says that ballots counted after midnight should be invalidated, he's just making that up," said Mr Biden's campaign manager Jennifer O'Malley Dillon.

"There is no historical precedent that any of our elections have ever run and been counted and completely verified on election night. We do not expect that to happen in 2020," she added.

For live updates and results, follow our US election live coverage.

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US Election Day begins as voters decide on Trump's fate - CNA

WASHINGTON: The United States started voting on Tuesday (Nov 3) in an election amounting to a referendum on Donald Trump's uniquely brash and bruising presidency, which Democratic opponent and frontrunner Joe Biden urged Americans to end to restore "our democracy".

The country is more divided and angry than at any time since the Vietnam War era of the 1970s - and fears that Trump could dispute the result of the election are only fueling those tensions.

Despite an often startlingly laid-back campaign, Biden, 77, leads in almost every opinion poll, buoyed by his consistent message that America needs to restore its "soul" and get new leadership in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 231,000 people.

"I have a feeling we're coming together for a big win tomorrow," Biden said in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a vital electoral battleground where he was joined by pop superstar Lady Gaga. "It's time to stand up and take back our democracy."

READ: Commentary: Two visions collide, as US head to historic polls this week

But Trump was characteristically defiant to the end, campaigning at a frenetic pace with crowded rallies in four states on Monday, and repeating his dark, unprecedented claims for a US president that the polls risk being rigged against him.

After almost non-stop speeches in a final three-day sprint, he ended up in the early hours of Tuesday in Grand Rapids, Michigan - the same place where he concluded his epic against-the-odds campaign in 2016, defeating the apparent frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

Despite the bad poll numbers, the 74-year-old Republican real estate tycoon counted on pulling off another upset.

"We're going to have another beautiful victory tomorrow," he told the Michigan crowd, which chanted back: "We love you, we love you!"

"We're going to make history once again," he said.

READ: Commentary: Polls are bullish on a Joe Biden win, but are they accurate?

PACKING TRUMP'S BAGS

While Tuesday is formally Election Day, in reality Americans have been voting for weeks.

With a huge expansion in mail-in voting to safeguard against the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 100 million people have already made their choice.

Biden has the wind in his sails after indications that Democratic enthusiasm in the early voting may be matching the more visible energy at Trump's impressive rallies.

In one of US history's great political gambles, Biden stuck to socially distanced gatherings with small crowds right up to the last moment, in stunning contrast to Trump's constant, large rallies where few supporters so much as bothered with masks.

READ: Win the vote but still lose? Behold the US Electoral College

READ: Commentary: Biden races to the White House finish line. What does this mean for America?

But the Democrat, making his third attempt at the presidency, clearly senses that his calmer approach and strict attention to pandemic protocols is what Americans want after four tempestuous years.

"It's time for Donald Trump to pack his bags and go home," Biden told supporters in Cleveland on Monday.

"We're done with the chaos! We're done with the tweets, the anger, the hate, the failure, the irresponsibility."

In chilly downtown Pittsburgh, Justine Wolff said she had cast her ballot for Biden already and was cautiously hopeful he would carry Pennsylvania, which along with Florida may be the tightest of all the swing states that decide close national elections.

"I hope that people have seen the writing on the wall," said the 35-year-old nurse. "We need some kind of change because this isn't working for anybody."

But where many early votes are believed to have been cast by Democrats, Trump's side is hoping for a massive wave of Republican supporters voting in person on Tuesday.

READ: In photos: Scenes from the campaign trail as US election goes down to the wire

"Whether he wins or loses, this is history," said Kolleen Wall, who turned out to cheer Trump in Grand Rapids. But "when you come to one of these rallies, all you think is, how could he not win?"

Polls opened at 6am local time (1100 GMT) in the eastern states of New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Connecticut and Maine.

But the first polling stations to open in the country were in two New Hampshire villages, Dixville Notch and Millsfield, starting at midnight.

A tiny hamlet of 12 residents in the middle of the forest, near the Canadian border, Dixville Notch has traditionally voted "first in the nation" since 1960.

The vote took minutes, as did the count: five votes for Biden, and none for Trump.

WARNING OF VIOLENCE

Trump himself is planning to visit his campaign headquarters in Virginia on Tuesday, while Biden will travel to his birthplace of Scranton, the scrappy Pennsylvania town where Trump also visited on Monday.

There are worries that if the election is close, extended legal chaos and perhaps violent unrest could ensue - not least because Trump has spent months trying to sap public trust in the voting process in a nation already bitterly divided along political fault lines.

He ramped up these warnings in the final days, focusing especially on Pennsylvania's rule allowing absentee ballots received within three days after Tuesday to be counted.

In a tweet flagged with a warning label by Twitter on Monday, he said this would "allow rampant and unchecked cheating."

"It will also induce violence in the streets. Something must be done!" Trump tweeted.

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