Bomb threats to New Jersey polling stations, a voter roll mishap in Pennsylvania potentially affecting thousands of voters and warnings by President Donald Trump against California’s mail balloting system marked the final day of voting in an off-year election with several nationally prominent races.
They were deciding governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia, a mayor’s race in New York, Supreme Court elections in Pennsylvania, and voting and gun control measures in Maine. A redistricting initiative in California that was a response to Trump’s push to redraw congressional lines in GOP-controlled states ahead of next year’s midterm elections has been of particular interest to the Republican president.
Claims of election rigging are almost routine for Trump in the run-up to elections and sometimes on the day of voting itself. On Election Day last year, before he was declared the winner, he claimed without providing any details or evidence that there was “talk about massive cheating in Philadelphia” and said law enforcement was on the way. He continues to lie about his loss in the 2020 presidential election.
