UNS: The former US president Donald Trump has cast his ballot in Florida after he arrived at the voting precinct in Palm Beach with his wife, Melania Trump, CNN reports.
Speaking to the press after casting his ballot, Trump said he is “very confident” he will win the election and that “it won’t even be close,” while expressing frustration that it may take a while to call the results.
“I feel very confident,” Trump said. “I hear we’re doing very well everywhere.”
He added that this was the “best” of the three campaigns he ran.
“It won’t even be close,” Trump said. “But it’s gonna take a long time to certify.”
Trump continued to complain about how long it would take to tally up the results given that “they spent all this money on machines,” citing the French election as an example of a quick election.
Election Day voting unfolded largely smoothly across the nation but with scattered reports of extreme weather, ballot printing errors and technical problems causing delays, AP reports.
Most of the hiccups occurring by mid-day were “largely expected routine and planned-for events,” said Cait Conley, senior adviser to the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in a press briefing. She said the agency was not currently tracking any national, significant incidents impacting election security.
Helping voting run relatively smoothly on Election Day was the fact that tens of millions of Americans had already cast their ballots. Those included record numbers of voters in Georgia, North Carolina and other battleground states that could decide the winner.
