RESOURCES VARY FOR VOTING AROUND THE USA|投票所設備不足 馬里蘭州投票等1.5小時

The majority of the USA has to fit in voting around work and other activities because Election Day for the past 174 years has always been on a Tuesday. And this year is no exception. In the past, the country has been known for low voter turnouts, but this time around, as things heated up quite significantly in the past months, things may be a little bit different. The polls along the east coast are about to close at this hour, followed by poll stations in the mid-west, and finally, the west coast will close in about five hours. As the entire America votes, we'd like to take you to a few polling stations and show you what it's like on Election Day for many Americans. Voters in Greenbelt, Maryland, had to wait to use just one scanner for the entire precinct. One voter said it took her just 30 minutes to vote, but then an extra hour and a half to get her ballot scanned. ==ANNE WELDON Greenbelt, Maryland voter== We're frustrated, however, I met some nice, I was in line with some nice people, which made it go by faster, but I kept wondering why there was only one scanner and it should have been better prepared. The people should have been better prepared than this. I was also wondering what would happen if the one scanner we had broke? In other places, the atmosphere was more laidback, and the voting public was also in evidence early in the day. In California, a polling station volunteer reported strong turnout early in the morning. ==STAN JOHNSON California polling station volunteer== We're probably, at 9 am, two hours in, are probably two-thirds of what the last election was for the whole day for our precinct. So, yes we are very busy. In a benchmark for democracy, residents of Skid Row, the area in downtown Los Angeles with a predominantly homeless population, also took to the polls. At the Anne Douglas Center, voters started turning out from 7 a.m. to vote for their choice of political candidate. ==RAY ROBERT STOUT skid row resident== Either socialist or fascist. Trump being the fascist and Hillary being the socialist so we get either one. I just think the socialist, the Canadian type of government is better than a fascist type of government. Results will start to be known around lunchtime, Taiwan time. TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR