[AFP]Waiting outside polling stations across the country, American voters were a vision of orderly calm and quiet nerves. "The main issue for me is the continuation of our democracy," Ken Thompson, a 66-year-old mason told AFP, at Edison Elementary school in Erie, Pennsylvania. The lines outside polling stations along the East Coast early suggested that many Americans had embraced calls from the candidates, celebrities and activists to carry out their duty. "It's way, way, way more people here than the last" election, Marchelle Beason, 46, told AFP in Erie after putting on an "I voted" sticker. "I'll be glad when it's over," Guy Mills, 62, told AFP in New York.

Source: Daily Nation November 05, 2024 18:34 UTC