Coronavirus pandemic. Officials say more than 100 million votes came in before election day, the most ever. The university of florida is analyzing the trend and says about 65 million of the ballots came in by mail. The surge in mailin voting could have a major effect on election calls. Many people in florida said they wanted to make their voices heard. I know a lot of people especially on social media, younger people are really pushing the voting. Some said the voting process was unexpectedly easy, though there were adjustments for the coronavirus pandemic. There have been no extra long lines, and once the line got started everything just went smoothly. A lot of attention is on the results of six swing states, arizona, florida, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin and north carolina. Those difficulttocall states are essentially the tipping points and often decide who wins the electoral college. The two candidates appeared in public on the crucial day. Were doing very well in florida. Were
A new vaccine developed in germany and the us head of the Commission Says its the most promising results so far. U. S. President donald Trump Presses ahead with legal challenges to being electoral process with the backing of many Senior Republicans with racism. Man who says he was the victim of racist Police Violence and hear about a new study that suggests there may be others like him. Im for. Welcome to the program. All of hong kongs prodemocracy lawmakers have resigned after the territories government removed 4 of their colleagues. The 15 resignation came after the Chinese Parliament passed a law allowing the territories chief executive to expel legislators without having to go through the courts. Beijing has defended the legislation is necessary to uphold the rule of law in hong kong. Opposition. Lawmakers say it spells the end of the territorys fight for democratic rights. Yeah, that way if they were the last remaining prodemocracy lawmakers in hong kong, now they are resigning in
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Im fogel. Welcome to the program called prodemocracy. Lawmakers have resigned on mass after the territorys government removed 4 of their colleagues. The 15 resignations came after the Chinese Parliament passed a law allowing the islands chief executive to expel legislators without going through the courts. Beijing has defended the legislation as necessary to uphold the rule of law in hong kong. Opposition. Lawmakers say it spells the end of the territorys pfeifer democratic rights. That way, if they were the last remaining prodemocracy lawmakers in hong kong, now they are resigning in solidarity with their colleagues who were deemed threats to National Security by beijing. It is yet another blow for their prodemocracy movement. All i got that we got all the decision made by the National Peoples Congress Today is extremely ridiculous. It shows that the Central Government has completely given up the basic law and given up one country 2 systems. Dennis kwok is one of the 4, expelled lawma
Melissa chan. Welcome to news asia. Thank you for joining us. Hong kongs legislature now has effectively no opposition. Prodemocracy lawmakers have announced they will all resign. Its to protest against beijings new bill passed today. Wednesday, the law would allow the Hong Kong Government to expel legislators without due process. And as soon as that law went into effect, the executive expelled for lawmakers. The opposition called the act quote, ruthless and said it quote, sounded the death knell of the citys democracy fight. Joining us is holmes chan. A political journalist in hong kong holmes. Im a little curious this decision from beijing did that come as a surprise . Now the decision actually came as a result of chinas top law making Body National Peoples Congress standing committee. And the reason why i came as such a big surprise to people in hong kong was because this was not announced on the agenda beforehand. It was announced very rapidly and passed very quickly and taking eff