American Celestial Master

Chapter 277, Voting

However, the deployment of the federal peacekeeping force did play a role. At least, the direct conflict between the two sides disappeared. New York would still attack after the monsters crossed the border, but they would not send ground troops, only cross-border bombing, and they would not enter the so-called "danger zone" designated by the Mississippi Alliance. Their actions would be notified to the federal side in advance, and the federal side would immediately notify the Mississippi Alliance.

Although both sides continue to verbally accuse each other, they are temporarily limited to verbal accusations because a more important matter is imminent - the US election is about to take place. So at this time, everyone plans to put the conflict aside for now and talk about it after the election.

The current president has given up his re-election bid and replaced him with the vice president. Normally, changing the generals at the last minute is a taboo in military strategy. As soon as the decision was made, the former president of the Democratic Party said that he would definitely win this time. But soon, the opinion polls of major media outlets came out.

These polls are really interesting. At the beginning, the Orange Party was far ahead in the polls, but as time went on, the numbers in the polls began to change rapidly. Soon, the two sides began to tie. A few days later, the Vice President overtook the Democratic Party and even continued to widen the gap. In this process, nothing happened that was favorable to the Democratic Party.

In response, Orange Miracle of course said with disdain that the news media that produced such poll results were all fake news media, and these numbers were deceptive and not worth paying attention to. But Orange Miracle also knew that the problem behind this was not that simple. Because of the current situation, when voting, more people will choose to mail their ballots instead of going to the polling station to vote in person.

Historical experience has also proven that mail-in ballots are more prone to problems when they are counted than those at the polling station. The Elephant Party has won several elections due to mail-in ballots. And Orange Miracle has always believed that the reason he failed to be re-elected last time was because the Donkey Party played tricks and stole votes during the counting of mail-in ballots. So he is very worried that the fake poll numbers produced by these fake news media are preparing for stealing votes in the future.

Orange Miracle believes that most Americans, even many black and Latino Americans, actually support him. It's just that under the influence of political correctness deliberately constructed by the fake news media, everyone has become a silent majority. On the surface, everyone pretends to follow political correctness and oppose Orange Miracle, but when it comes to voting, they will vote for Orange Miracle. Because of this, he was able to win the first presidential election despite an overwhelming disadvantage in the polls.

So, the vigilant Orange Miracle began to remind his supporters that the bad guys of the Donkey Party wanted to steal votes again. So Orange Miracle even said: "I will definitely win this election. If I am not elected, it must be someone cheating, and this election will be the last presidential election in American history."

The Donald Trump Party, of course, strongly criticized this statement. They directly accused the Orange Miracle in the media of threatening American democracy and unity. However, everyone knows that under the current situation, if this election is not handled well, it will become the fuse for the division of the United States. So while everyone is bargaining, they are also preparing to split and put the blame for the division on the other side.

Precisely because of the preparations for such a major event, the minor frictions in West Virginia have come to a halt. Even the group of monsters staying on the West Virginia border have become much more obedient for the time being, and the attacks they launch have become much less frequent. Of course, both sides have different accounts of this phenomenon.

The statement from West Virginia is that these monsters in fixed restricted areas rarely attack outside of their entrenched areas, and the frequent attacks before were entirely due to the Yankees' own mischief and "throwing firecrackers into the toilet", causing trouble.

The argument from New York is, of course, that this is only because our previous attacks worked. We dealt a heavy blow to these monsters, making them temporarily unable to harm the American people. However, these arguments are also very quiet, because now the attention of the whole country is focused on voting in the presidential election.

After a round of mutual attacks, the US presidential election finally began. Due to the influence of various monsters, more than 70% of the votes will be cast by mail in this vote. The counting of these mail-in ballots will be slower than the ballots at the polling stations. The ballots at the polling stations will be counted quickly, but the counting results of mail-in ballots will be released several days later because the postal system is also affected by monsters and the delivery efficiency has become lower. In addition, due to the influence of monsters, some ballots will inevitably be lost during the delivery process. And which ballots are lost will also become a serious problem.

"I'm afraid the split is inevitable." Looking at the vote counts from some polling stations, Fidel sighed, "We should be ready to launch Plan A."

"Orange Miracle is currently in the lead, although the lead is not big. But if the reversal occurs during the counting of mail-in ballots, it would be difficult for him to accept the result of being overturned now," said Anne.

"What if, I mean, there is still no reversal in the mail-in ballot process?" Andres said, "I think it is possible. The Democratic Party government has done a really bad job over the years. Everyone may want to try a different hand."

"The Donkey Party will not allow such a thing to happen, so even if it does happen, they will prevent it from happening. Now it feels a bit like a game of chicken. If no one gives in, it will be a lose-lose situation. But whoever gives in will win unilaterally. A double loss is better than a unilateral win. So I agree that it's time for us to start Plan A." Lin Qiu Sheng also said.

On the other hand, before the results of the mail-in ballots were counted, the Orange Wonder had already begun cheering and declared that it had won the election.

Next comes the most critical mail-in ballot.

Just like Andres was worried, the situation of mail-in ballots was not optimistic for the Donkey Party. Although the Donkey Party candidate's vote rate increased slightly in the mail-in ballots, Orange Miracle's vote rate was not low. If we look at the results of the first day of mail-in ballots, Orange Miracle will probably continue to maintain his advantage - although this advantage is also very small. After all, Orange Miracle is a very interesting guy - many people voted for him because they like him, but many people voted for his opponent, not because they really support his opponent, but simply because they hate him.

This advantage lasted until the third day of counting mail-in ballots. There were not many ballots left to be counted, and the Orange Miracle seemed to be making a comeback.

(End of this chapter)