Winner take all system. Which encourages people to vote for the lesser evil. Englands reimposing restrictions following examples of france and germany and a big slow record sergeant because the case is that many e. U. Citizens are fuming at the message. In my opinion the measures come too late and i think they should have been different the minute. If you have no savings or support it isnt enough and its very welcome and thank you for joining us as we continue to bring you the latest on the race for the white house. With the u. S. A vote tomorrow by uncertainty and claims of electoral fraud thousands of people around the country have taken their anger to the streets demanding all votes are counted some of the protests have turned violent with demonstrators facing off with police up to 60 people have reportedly been detained in new york. America is gripped by an easy anticipation with ballot counting entering the final stages but with no clear winner yet lets take a look at how things stand Democrat Joe Biden has the backing of 264 lectors while his rival donald trump has 240 the threshold for winning the race is 270 votes winning just one more states like nevada would mean victory for biden whos reportedly only 16 votes from his goal the state will continue counting in the morning while trumping the old in order to turn the tide would have to take hold uncounted battleground states some like North Carolina and pennsylvania will not announce too late. But 2020 votes already been marred by claims of electoral fraud and arrows the trunk campaigns filed lawsuits in pennsylvania michigan and georgia demanding that absentee ballots which arrived off to be election day deadline should not be included. Joins me in the studio to break down the disagreements. Democratic candidate joe biden is very close to that threshold but the winner has not been announced so more than a day after polling station is closed the country still doesnt have a president elect what the nation has instead are protests some of them are angry and violent also lawsuits and also a feeling of a flawed system so protests have broken out in different corners of the nation the left side is chanting pretty much make sure that every vote counts while the pro from supporters are screaming stop the count what is this if not an indication of a lack of trust for the electoral system i could remind you that before the november votes donald trump called on his supporters to vote in person and warned that there could be potential fraud with absentee and mailed in the votes and at this point the trump camp is saying that they have the ground to bring this to court in fact theyve already filed several lawsuits they say they have proof of fraud including secret the dump ballots will be going to the u. S. Supreme court we want to. Voting just. We dont want them to find any ballots at 4 oclock in the morning in them to the list ok. Not a single republican has been able to look at any one of these mail ballots they could be from mars as far as were concerned or they could be from the Democratic National committee joe biden could have voted 50 times as far as we know a 5000 times. The ballots could be from camden. Philadelphia unfortunately and say this about my own city has a reputation for voter fraud and one of the districts of the state of wisconsin while of the results were being announced an extra 0 was added to the total number of voters and instantly that number became higher than the entire population of that district which put joe biden in the lead and the weird bits and that curve summarizes it all however then the mistake was corrected still though the republicans demand that the votes in wisconsin be recounted now the republican camp also filed a lawsuit in the state of georgia where the aim is to pretty much make sure that all the absentee and mail the ballots that were handed in past the election day deadline are rejected several lawsuits were also followed in the states of pennsylvania and michigan and there there the claim from the republican is that the counting wasnt transparent enough and this explains why the Program Supporters are chanting stop the count like here in detroit. To. The. To the to the if you listen to the speeches that we heard from both candidates pretty much their message was that they had already d won the message was very close to that perhaps it was way too soon for donald trump to do that because the numbers arent looking good for him at all however the latest speech by democratic candidate joe. Biden once again im going to say that he already sounded like hed already become president he called on the nation to unite once this election is finalized and behind us it will be time for us to do what weve always done as americans to put the harsh rhetoric of the campaign behind us to lower the temperature to see each other again to listen to one another. To hear each other again respecting to care for one another to unite to you to come together as a nation so mr biden is calling on the nation to get together to unite which is in stark contrast to what we were hearing from the democrats ahead of the paul one they pretty much called all donald Trump Supporters and it means some very nasty things were said however it doesnt look like the nation is uniting with all the protests some of them are violent with both sides but at this point especially donald trump sides being ready to take the cases to court and also like i said again its not been decided yet it looks like some of the results were not to go into here until the next few days so watch this space we discover situation with guests some of whom think developments point to a wide to failure if the u. S. System. Theres an acquiescence to that in fact biden has won the presidency i would say dont think that whatever the Court Challenges are going to change anything with the possible exception of wisconsin where you have some implausible numbers that are coming out and ive seen a lot of a lot of vetting on line about these strange amount of turnout which seems like you know beyond belief level of turnout and so there seem to be a lot of mystically manufactured votes in wisconsin im not sure that actually change the outcome of the social media has been manipulated in this election banning accounts that are not quite to their liking pushing people to do this to do that i mean its with been the most manipulated election certainly in my lifetime theres no question about that and we all know which way the manipulation is going so this is this is not a mystery right this is not we all know which way the social media giants were leaning the way the major media was leaning so of course you know if biden ekes out this little bit this time in victory with a couple of states that swing swing states where theres some suspicious ballot you know biden comes becomes president with with almost you know with very little the gentleman say and certainly no you know serious consensus so there will be no mandate for biden and this will last for 4 years this is a tremendous failure of the american system i dont know what else to tell you usually after every election people like well we argued a lot we debated things a lot but now the system has worked this year. That is not happening theres nobody in this country who thinks the system actually worked it was either rigged or its broken or didnt work or something so this in a strange way at least at the president ial level election really settled absolutely nothing i think because i think that theres a lot to contest i mean this is a election unlike any other with all of the mail in ballots with all the early voting we knew it was due to be chaotic from the beginning unless it was a massive landslide direction everyone were sort of expect that this was going to drag out and maybe drag out until december but by law we have to have a winner by december 12th i believe it is and this reviewer is probably where this going to go no side is going to give up easily and i know we have all of these incredibly shady stories popping up 100000 ballots here for joe biden 120000 ballots in pennsylvania recently per job id offer joe biden what is this venezuelan voter fraud is a big concern we see this public now you always you know a little anomalies popping up here and theyre going to school errors but were seeing instances where people. Got a mail in ballot and then they decide to vote in person so how we should ensure that they didnt vote twice on those ballots are canceled out we are seeing instances rigged or not being allowed to look at signatures on voter rolls not be able to verify voters that there are some districts that are being very close about how theyre recounting the ballots why would you do that why would you want anything but transparency but yet where did this come from and i wouldnt put anything past the left of the Democratic Party look at the fraud that they have perpetuated on this nation blessed for years they still havent conceded the 2016 election no one but theyre going to concede this one so. Its well worth looking into i would not put it past the Democrat Party to pull Something Like this. Pennsylvania is still counting votes which could prove crucial to the outcome of the election turn one there and 2016 with us in the long run of democrat wins i think the trade to chavez looks at the deep divisions within the state. Pennsylvania with nearly 13000000 residents is arguably the single most important state of the 2020 but in many ways the keystone state mirrors the country while its rust belt is dotted with the shuttered factories and rundown chimneys its also a place of affluent liberal suburbs and conservative countryside reflecting a divided america i mean the devices in this sense going on in this country right now its ridiculous and i dont care what anybody says that it is a race. And very lucky that somebody like donald trump is. My president and i can vote for him again while the northeast and the southwest corners of pennsylvania residents come from a long line of Blue Collar Workers like old coal mines and Steel Industries the States Eastern and western borders hold the biggest Population Centers and a lot of industry and heartland in between and although pennsylvania is considered a blue wall state as it has a history of voting democratic that changed in 2016 when donald trump won the state over democratic contender Hillary Clinton by point 7 percent congratulations mr president but now 4 years later controversial Pipeline Projects have helped make fracking a political flashpoint in the debate over energy the Climate Crisis and the influence of big business these 2 parties are radically different and that what i think is that each party is controlled much more by its what would be the stronger i guess its extreme wing youre right. Both candidates focusing on pennsylvania President Trump folding several rallies theyre trying to woo the region with promises of coal and steel jobs while insisting that joe biden what a limb in a bracket hard for barges averred do or if youre. For our cue to deliver economic ruin. Your families but youve got to be pretty clear biden who grew up in pennsylvania says he isnt calling for the immediate end to the oil industry but is pushing for ending federal. Subsidies for fossil fuel companies and ending new permits on public land for fracking crash in the tropics terrified of what will happen to the president you know as the people pleasuring gets have their sand if you ever shy he doesnt stand a chance as pennsylvania is the 2nd largest producer of natural gas in the United States and the 3rd largest net supplier of energy the American Petroleum institute estimates its Natural Gas Industry contributes nearly 35 1000000000. 00 to the state and combined with its oil industry it supports about 340000. 00 local jobs were afraid that if they buy a ticket wins that the gas and oil thing is going to be shut down in spite of what they say. But in both 202016 count as low as despite winning the popular vote the countrys Electoral College system. Early and my colleagues on skits harlow spoke with representatives from americas 3rd parties the libertarians on the greens and whether the current tea Party Domination gives americans any real alternatives. The one percent that libertarians get. Does play a significant role i dont know if libertarians or other 3rd parties are or will ever consistently get high enough to win a National Election maybe not win in elections but impacting policy debates and reaching out to voters is what we do how its want to pick up on something that was just said to him he said you know were talking about a single percent support for thought party town today thats right its kind of spread quite even 4849 for the republicans and democrats so its almost sad to say that the republicans or democrats at this point represent the will of the majority of americans do you think that as you know you disagree with that absolutely when you look at Public Opinion polls majority of americans want a Green New Deal which is what the green party is for to deal with the Climate Crisis get the economy going again majority of americans want medicare for all and both democrats and republicans oppose those posts the problem is that our electoral system. We have a plurality winner or Single Member districts when you take all system. Which encourages people to vote for the lesser evil the most people are voting against the other major party rather than for their own party so i think if we can change the electoral system in place the Electoral College with a National Popular vote used the right Choice Voting for president ial elections. I think the greens will move way up and in the boat we get currently the state in the us is kind of how how it hearkens mentioned its people for trump and people who hate trump thats what theyre voting about and theyre there strategically choosing one of the major parties its not that they necessarily agree with the platforms of those parties and was that there is a lot of oh ive had criticism voting for a party actually can create problems more problems and build and just wason the device and because that essentially is stealing quote you know folks from parties that would actually when for example the republicans or the democrats in this particular case why it is so close and those states that were saying i sometimes even less than a percentage point how would you react to people who say that if i had to choose we want 21. 00 of the major parties i would flip a coin because i equally dislike both of them. The difference between the republicans and democrats is mostly about personality and style when it comes to the substance of the issues theyre both for the deficit spending theyre both for spending and taxing too much theyre both for continuing the wars and those are things that libertarians oppose and even grains oppose some of that stuff as well so i actually like it when the republicans and democrats get mad at libertarians because it causes them to focus on us and it gives us an opportunity to say hey heres why you guys are wrong and heres why we wont vote for you this is what we stand for what we need real Political Parties that actually have members i mean what we have now are 2 major parties you tell the state which party youre in in order to vote in primaries theres no local organization no local chapter of the party no you dont agree to a set of principles and they do sort of party to join you just tell the state which party you can so the electorate is adam honest and disconnected from the political process. With the ballot counting extremely tight heres how it looks at this point where Democrat Joe Biden has the backing of 264 electors one his rival donald trump is 214 the threshold for winning the race is 272 votes now winning just one more state like nevada could mean a victory for biden who is reportedly only 6 of votes from his goal the stage will continue counting in the morning trump in order to turn the tide it would have to take all uncounted battleground states someone North Carolina and pennsylvania will not announce until late. I am. I am. Lets turn our attention to some other world news now major members are returning to lockdowns following a record surge in coded cases with in some instances a 43 percent rise in victims and those reimposing restrictions following the examples of france and germany in order to slow down the spread of the virus france has more than 40000 new cases a day italy is introducing curfews from 10 pm and in germany a new infections grew by more than 2700 over the last 24 hours russia meanwhile registered more than 900000 new cases on wednesday and on takeover classic scene of russian origins in the final stage of trials where there is growing public anger and restrictions across the continent our europe correspondent peter all of our explains. Were 4 days into whats being called lockdown light here in germany younger merkle put this in place with the idea being to keep schools kindergartens as much of the economy open as possible at the expense of social life essentially bars restaurants theaters cinemas gyms all of these closed down in order to keep open schools and kindergartens and as much business that doesnt involve direct contact as possible although those businesses that are open are under some restrictions so far though its a fairly mixed bag when it comes to opinion on these measures here in berlin. In my opinion the measures come too late and i think they should have been different shutting down businesses at 10 pm i find absurd it looks like the virus only comes out at night during the day you can do whatever you want but then at night you have to close because the virus comes with barnsley i find in justified partly im sad about the restaurants but overall i find the look down necessary for the money and. If you have no savings or support it isnt enough in berlin as a freelance musician suddenly everything is gone there isnt enough help at all the numbers dont paint a pretty picture when it comes to infections in germany on wednesday germany recorded 1900990 new cases of covert 90 now thats gone beyond what was initially put forward by Angela Merkel is a doomsday scenario for the Health Care System of 19200 cases its the 6th straight day germanys record of over 15000 cases the plan from Angela Merkel and her government is to get infections down by 75 percent with this new lock down like this for the next month well for the month of november with the hope being that if we suffer through november then we might get a little bit of a reprieve in terms of the restrictions anyway over the Christmas Period he said so i dont think that an op this this. Depends on what we can achieve in november so if we have very sensible now then we will be able to allow ourselves more freedom for christmas but i dont think that there will be lavish new year parties we have to wait and see but it will be christmas and the chronic conditions but it should not be a lonely christmas over the western border into france and as of a very bleak picture being painted by statistics put forward by French Health minister. He says that one person in paris every 30 seconds this week of being contracting covert 191 person every 15 minutes requiring medical attention theres no chance of a christmas break in what hes saying he says that people are going to have to make plans around covert 19 because the virus isnt going to make plans around them weve also youre seeing protests in france as well High School Kids out on the streets this week protesting against what they see as a lack of social distancing or article it and coronavirus measures taken in Schools Police used tear gas against some in paris the schools in france went back on monday. In the United Kingdom and england has entered a month long lockdown but on wednesday evening just before that came into play you wouldnt think that anything was about to happen in places like old compton street in london where revelers packed in for a last pint nearly a mask nor any kind of social distancing in evidence there over in sweden a couldnt tree that had been peled up as an example of how to limit corona infections without making measures law well it seems that theyre going to have to make some of those measures law thats according to stefan levin the Prime Minister of sweden who says this may be. Needed in order to keep numbers down and not country increased as strict new measures come into place in thessaloniki where no nonessential flights will be allowed in or out theres also limits on when and for what reason you can leave your home in portugal the Prime Ministers put in place a new state of emergency and in italy a new curfew has come into play as european nations try and get rising infection numbers down they seem to be fighting a losing battle in lots of different places but they did these obstructions all continuing to come in in the hope that in a couple of weeks they can try and suppress this 2nd wave of the virus thats related to announce the international thank you for joining us were back at the top of the hour. 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