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169 million voters in America's $6 billion
election
Monday November 05, 2012 07:35:17 PM,
Arun Kumar,
IANS
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Washington:
One of the world's largest electoral exercises in the world after
India, the world's largest democracy, gets underway Tuesday when
169 million American voters go to the polls to chose a president,
a new House of Representatives, 33 senators and thousands of local
officials at a whopping cost of $6 billion.
Key facts
. There are169 million registered voters, 86 million Democrat and
55 million Republican and 28 million others.
. They include about a half million voters from the 3.12 million
strong Indian American community.
. Besides the president, the voters would be choosing 435 members
of the House of Representatives and 33 of the 100 senators, one
third of whom retire every two years.
. Democrats are defending 23 of the 33 seats up for grabs in the
Senate where they currently have a majority of 53, including two
independents who caucus with them.
. Five Indian-Americans, four Democrats and one Republican, are
seeking election to the US Congress.
. A young Democrat woman from Hawaii is considered a shoo-in to
become the first Hindu-American woman in the Congress.
. Eleven governorships are also up for grabs besides thousands of
state and local officials.
. Voters will also tackle more than 1,000 local ballot issues
Tuesday.
. These include right-to die in Massachusetts, gay marriage in
Maine, abortion in Florida and Montana, death penalty in
California and segregation in Alabama.
. There are currently 29 Republicans, 20 Democrats, and 1
Independent holding the office of governor in the states.
. There are 27 Republican-controlled and 15 Democratic-controlled
legislatures besides 7 split legislatures and one officially
non-partisan (Nebraska).
. More than 45 million US voters, or one out of every four who go
to the polls, will cast a ballot on a machine that stores votes
electronically, but doesn't create a paper ballot, according to
Verified Voting.
. First of the Polls close at 7 p.m. (5:30 a.m. Wednesday India
time) in six states including the battle ground state of Virginia
(13 electoral votes) followed by all-important Ohio (18 electoral
votes) half an hour later.
. The last of the polls close in Alaska at 1 a.m. Wednesday (11:30
a.m. Wednesday India time).
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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