Chapter 1173: Election Results

Election Results

During this week, Director Luo Bu was very busy because Mr. Potter had work for him.

He needed to take his people to those swing states and the Social Party states where deals had been made to keep an eye on the voting, ensuring no mistakes were made and that every ballot was correctly cast into the ballot box.

No one was washing votes, no one was voting.

This related to the key of whether Mr. Potter could become the Federal President next. Although Director Luo Bu had some private matters to attend to, he didn't dare not to work.

A week of time always becomes both fast and slow in anxiety and busyness.

Fast refers to the fact that every day when he could sit down to rest and think about how to deal with Lans, it was already late at night.

A day seemed to disappear without a trace in his life in an instant, never to be found again, so fast that he basically had no reaction before it was noon, evening, and time to sleep.

Slow refers to the fact that in this fast time, every once in a while, there would be those few minutes of anxiety that would seem exceptionally long.

Even if he looked at his watch several times, time might have only passed a few minutes, ten minutes or so.

It formed a sharp contrast with the fast feeling of time passing in the blink of an eye every night.

However, fortunately, there were no problems with the ballots. His people kept a close eye on those polling stations and ballot boxes, the twenty-four-hour kind.

Anyone who did anything other than voting at the polling station would be searched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

No one felt that Mr. Potter was making a mountain out of a molehill, nor would they mock him, because everyone knew very well that this would be the biggest change in the federal political scene in the last twenty years.

Any caution was not excessive.

Time passed in this feeling of chaotic time. The Federation's three major consulting agencies would predict the election results every day, and people loved to watch this.

Those voters, and those who were keen on politics, now had no interest in work at all. They were always discussing who was most likely to win, and what would happen to the Federation after the win.

Everyone was paying attention to the results of this election, whether it was Mr. Potter or other candidates.

When all the ballot boxes gathered in the Congress, the critical moment of vote counting began.

A large number of people gathered outside the Congress, and there were also many reporters inside the Congress recording every process of the vote counting.

This was not a simple matter. About tens of millions of ballots came from various states of the Federation, eventually gathering here.

The vote-counting staff needed to take out the ballot cards in their hands and hold them high to ensure that the three vote inspectors could see them before recording them as valid votes.

The entire vote-counting process also required several days. They first counted the votes for each political party's fixed territory because the results of these counts would not make people dissatisfied, nor would anyone have any objections.

In fact, this was indeed the case; soon, the ballots of fifteen states were finished being counted.

The election result of the Federal President is not a direct presidential election, but the electoral votes played a key role, which is to measure public opinion.

Regional senators and representatives come from direct voter election. In a sense, senators and representatives are the embodiment of public opinion, so these people, as the electors who truly have the decision-making power in the general election, are the ones who finally decide who is the President.

But they have to consider whether the voters who support them can accept their voting results. If they don't want their political careers to end there, they had better obey the voters' general election results.

This can also be considered a... manifestation of democracy.

But in reality, whether it is senators or representatives, they are all results produced by political party manipulation of the election.

Those voters in the Federation never understand one truth—

They can only choose who to vote for, not choose who to let do the work!

It sounds like this is a contradiction, but in reality, it is not a contradiction.

Major political parties nominate "candidates," and these voters can only vote for these candidates. This is the root of hypocritical freedom.

You think Mr. Smith is an excellent politician, but he cannot get the nomination of the political party. He is not a candidate, and you don't have this option when voting.

When you can only choose between some people you don't know and one person you know and feel is okay, people often just randomly fill in the name of someone they are familiar with.

And when necessary, they will directly tamper with the election results to let the people they want to push up become senators or state representatives.

But regardless, these people need to comply with public opinion to a greater extent in order to continue to vote for this official who looks pretty good in the next vote.

With the appearance of the ballot and electoral vote results of fourteen states, the Social Party occupied a clear advantage. They clearly had the upper hand by taking the votes of seven states.

The Liberal Party only got the votes of five states, the Federal Party had two states, and the Labor Party got the votes of one state.

There were still four states left, four swing states. Even if the Social Party was clearly dominant now, as long as they couldn't take at least one state among the four swing states, they would be in danger.

The Social Party candidate's face seemed to be filled with a relaxed smile, as if the current lead gave him the illusion that he could win!

"I think we can win!" The Social Party candidate stood there looking at the constantly changing vote counts. He turned around and looked at the gentlemen behind him, including Senator Cleveland who was also here.

The fanaticism and excitement on his face could not be hidden at all. Leading by two states meant that as long as he took one swing state among the four, he would have a great chance of winning.

Although he understood when he was nominated as a presidential candidate that there was a high probability this would just be a run as a runner-up, when he truly reached this moment, who could face such a result with composure?

He still wanted to fight for it, what if?

Senator Cleveland appeared very rational, very calm, and even had a somewhat cruel feeling.

He looked calmly at the presidential candidate and shook his head, "I'm afraid it's difficult. You know, we have been in power for too long, and these people below have more dissatisfaction with our rule."

"And these years we have been trying to solve the problem of mountain-topism, letting each state return from the local interest groups to the federal government, which has already caused harm to the interest groups in some swing states."

"This time it is very difficult for them to support us again, so in the short term, we will not consider these for now."

"You have to adjust your mindset."

The presidential candidate was originally a bit excited, but after being told this by Senator Cleveland, he was suddenly a bit discouraged.

He gave a somewhat sullen "um," and after glancing at Mr. Potter from afar, he focused his attention on the vote counting results again.

The results of the first swing state came out, and the Liberal Party almost won a complete victory.

Then it was the second state's, and without a doubt, they achieved a huge victory.

By this time, the electoral votes of the Liberal Party candidate and the Social Party candidate were almost tied, and the remaining two swing states represented the final outcome!

Just as mentioned earlier, although the Social Party side knew that the probability of being a token candidate this year was very high, and they were prepared for the probability of being a token candidate, but when it really reached this moment, they still hoped that the Social Party could win in this election.

The results of the third swing state also came out quickly, and the voters still gave their votes to Mr. Potter.

Compared to the "coldness" on the Social Party side, the Liberal Party side seemed to have already begun to prepare for celebration activities.

Mr. Potter's face was also filled with an uncontrollable smile, occasionally shaking hands with people who walked over to greet him and chatting for a few sentences.

The Social Party side could only look coldly, as they once were like this, looking down on the other side with the posture of a winner.

Facts proved that such a feeling was not good.

"Let's go, let's go back."

There was still one state's result that would only come out tomorrow. The Social Party candidate stood there staring at Mr. Potter for a while before turning around and leaving with others.

At night, countless phones were picked up and put down. In every newspaper office and magazine office, editors were working overtime.

If there were no accidents, the probability of the Liberal Party winning was very high, because electors would still obey the results of the general election in most cases.

Early the next morning, rumors about Mr. Potter's high probability of winning had already begun to appear in newspapers. Some newspapers, such as the "Federal Daily," used some exaggerated terms to embellish this "cross-century victory."

It seemed that the entire Liberal Party camp had begun to open champagne in advance, while the Social Party side was much colder.

The "Federal Post" also commented and counterattacked on this matter. The article was written by the gold-medal editor-in-chief, who believed that before the electoral vote results came out, the general election votes only had reference value.

In other words, the Social Party side still had a certain chance to win this election.

Everyone knew that this was just a kind of comfort, but the Social Party people seemed willing to believe such a result and prayed for the occurrence of a miracle.

The next morning, the ballots of the last swing state came to an end. The Liberal Party was far ahead with a general election support rate of nine states, the Social Party was second, and as for the Federal Party and the Labor Party, they didn't have much presence.

One week after the general election ended, the electoral vote would be conducted, and the candidate who obtained at least half of the electoral votes would win.

They still had one week to do the final public relations.

This was also the busiest time in the entire Golden State. Those political speculators and capitalists were all waving banknotes to help their front-stage figures get as much support as possible.

The resources on the Social Party side had clearly shown a disadvantage. Capitalists would not invest more money in a candidate who was very likely to lose and make them lose everything.

On the contrary, on Mr. Potter's side, a large number of capitalists and speculators took the initiative to contact him every day, hoping to provide him with some "help" within their power.

A week passed quickly, for Mr. Potter.

In the fourth week of November, the final electoral vote results began.

This time, the eyes of the whole world were focused here.

Watching the electoral votes of the three presidential candidates constantly increase, the scene was accompanied by warm applause with every vote.

The Labor Party candidate was the first to be eliminated. He took the initiative to withdraw from the election. He was the one who was truly running as a token candidate throughout, but people would not look down on them because of this.

They used withdrawing from the election and giving up more electoral votes as bargaining chips to reach some agreements with the Liberal Party in private.

With the support of more than ten votes in the hands of the Labor Party, at least Mr. Potter was already in a leading position.

The remaining two hundred plus votes began to revolve around the final battle between the Liberal Party and the Social Party.

Watching the relatively anxious votes, Mr. Potter also became nervous.

He knew his winning percentage was very high, but what if?

He held a cigar in his hand, constantly using nicotine to force himself to calm down. He would also look at his opponent, the Social Party camp, from time to time, trying to obtain some important information from the faces of these people.

As the vote-counting process continued to advance, the increase in the Social Party's electoral votes began to slow down, while the increase in the Liberal Party's electoral votes did not slow down.

Maintaining a steady increase versus starting to decrease the speed of increase, the gap would only get bigger and bigger. When the Liberal Party side had just obtained over one hundred and ten votes, Mr. Potter had already obtained one hundred and forty-five votes, successfully becoming the new President of the Federation.

Everything was just as people expected, obtaining a result that... some people were satisfied with and some were dissatisfied with.

Senator Cleveland also sighed. In fact, the gap between them was not very large, and some tense and dangerous situations had occurred during this process.

Although the general election votes in the swing states almost all supported the Liberal Party, in the electoral votes, a portion of the electors did not fully obey public opinion; they cast their votes for the Social Party.

This made Mr. Potter break out in a cold sweat!

In fact, considering it now, if it weren't for the dozen or so votes given to them by the Labor Party, they would at most be leading the Social Party by twenty or so votes, and there might not have been no chance of being beaten down.

But rules are rules. Exceeding half meant that even if all the subsequent votes were given to the Social Party, they wouldn't be able to gather the same number of votes, because there was still the Federal Party.

Mr. Potter, just like every winner in the election, tidied up his attire, walked to the Social Party side with the posture of a winner, and took the initiative to reach out to the Social Party candidate.

The reporters who were allowed to enter began to take pictures frantically. This would be an important page in history!

"Congratulations, David," the Social Party candidate said with a straight face.

His sour face made Mr. Potter unable to help but laugh out loud, "Almost, you might be a bit unlucky. Perhaps you might win next time. After all, the gap between us is not so big that it cannot be made up."

"But if it is next time, I believe I will still be the winner!"

He let go of the Social Party presidential candidate's hand and looked at Senator Cleveland beside him, "A wonderful confrontation. I look forward to our cooperation next. There shouldn't only be competition between the Presidential Palace and the Congress; there should also be cooperation."

It sounded like there was no problem with these words, but Senator Cleveland could hear a hint of mockery in them.

He pursed his lips, "Very good confidence. I also hope you can always be so confident!"

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