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U.S early ballots hit 90 million on Friday

U.S Early Ballots Hit 90 Million On Friday

• Trump, Biden ‘Square Up’ in battleground states

• 60% of votes already cast, four days to Election Day
• California, Nevada, New Jersey expand vote-by-mail option

Four days to Election Day, the number of early votes for Tuesday’s Presidential Election in the United States has hit 90 million, with 53 million ballots coming as drop-box mail votes.

Of the 240 million U.S eligible voters, experts estimate a 158 million turnout in this year’s crucial elections.

In what appears a strong motivation for change, over 20 million more Americans are expected to vote in 2020 than in 2016.

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Zero turnout as Poland holds bizarre ghost election

Zero Turnout As Poland Holds Bizarre Ghost Election

Poland’s election day Sunday will be one for the history books as polling stations remain closed and turnout will clock in at zero due to a political crisis set off by the coronavirus pandemic.

The EU member of 38 million people has found itself in the bizarre “Twilight Zone” predicament in which the presidential ballot is formally neither postponed nor cancelled, because the government and opposition were unable to agree on a constitutional and safe solution.

“We’re in a fog of legal absurdity,” Warsaw-based political scientist Stanislaw Mocek told AFP, echoing the widespread head-scratching and concern.

The government “should have …