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"If you want to live a better life, vote for Rex."

On the road at the entrance of Carnegie Library, Hu Shuying and Wang Jiaming also became Wang Lei's supporters, distributing leaflets and sample ballots to residents who came to vote to win the ballots they had.

Sample ballots are printed in the style and content of the real ballot, because the ballots not only contain the names of the mayor candidates, but also have to select town council members, as well as other items that require referendums. These contents are all on the same ballot. Some people do not read them carefully and may fill in the wrong ones.

With sample votes, voters can choose according to the same choice, and that's fine.

At six o'clock in the morning, the polling station officially opened. Voters lined up to enter the library. Wang Lei waited outside for a while. Seeing that no one came over at this time, he walked in.

In the lobby at the entrance, the staff sat behind the table, responsible for checking voter information and sending formal votes. Wang Lei walked there, greeted them with a smile, and then handed over his voter's certificate. In addition, such as driver's licenses, passports and other documents are also fine. Even if he has not brought the certificate for a while, he can register to vote first and then check it back.

In short, the entire procedure is both rigorous and takes care of everyone's right to vote.

The staff found Wang Lei's name on the voter registration book, checked the ID with the registered information, and it was accurate, so they marked it on it, and then sent him a vote.

Wang Lei walked to the room next to him with the ballot. During this process, he met other voters and could only smile and nod. There was absolutely no election-related activities in the polling station.

There are several tables in the room, each table is divided into a separate partition by wooden boards. You don’t have to worry about being seen and disturbed by others. This is a real secret voting.

On this paper ballot, each candidate has a blank circle in front of him. If you want to choose, you can paint the circle in front of his name. It is said that electronic voting machines have begun to be used in some places, but Braddock's financial situation is tight and there is no plan for this.

Wang Lei quickly filled in the ballots in his hands. Among the candidates for town mayor, he chose himself, which was impossible and needed to be humble; then there were the members of the town council, with a total of five people, and there were eight candidates, which was the largest number of candidates in the past decade, and was obviously influenced by Wang Lei's participation in the election and his lively campaign with Hawke.

Among these eight candidates are Wang Lei’s acquaintances Brady, Walker and Colin, but he can only choose one person, and Wang Lei voted for Colin.

The third column of the ballot is some important matters submitted to the referendum this time, including a bill to reduce property tax rates but charge service fees, a bill to demolish football stadiums and build a new neighborhood, a closing of the Carnegie Library and arranging a small library.

Except for the first proposal, Wang Lei voted in favor, the remaining two Wang Lei voted against.

These three proposals are basically dominated by Hawke, aiming to balance the town's fiscal budget and try to save financial resources to carry out some necessary construction. Among them, tax cuts and service fees are often preferred by conservative Republicans. It can be seen that when governing, both the Republicans and the Democrats will pay attention to effectiveness, and will not say that this is the Republican approach, and Democrats will not do it.

After Wang Lei filled in the ballot, he carefully checked it, then walked to the ballot box and voted in. At this point, he completed the entire voting process.

After walking out of the library gate, his role immediately changed from a voter to a candidate, facing the town residents who had just arrived who were preparing to vote, saying, "Hi, Samantha, hello, please vote for me."

"Rex, you have a really good memory." Samantha smiled and shook her thumb at Wang Lei, but she didn't say who she would vote for.

"Rex, have you completed the voting? Can you tell us whose vote you voted?" Rachel just interviewed a Braddock resident who voted and immediately reached the microphone in front of Wang Lei.

The news station brought a live broadcast car this time. Perhaps they were broadcasting the voting situation at the moment. Wang Lei immediately replied with a smile: "Of course, I think I can be fully qualified, so of course my vote is for myself."

"Wow, I'm really confident. So, who do you think will win in the end? Will it be you, or..." Rachel continued to ask. In fact, Wang Lei felt that the problem of this big-mouthed girl was really not very good. Maybe it was because of the intern reporter. The answer to such a question is obvious.

"Yes, it must be me!" Wang Lei said, pointing to the camera's camera.

Seeing voters coming, Wang Lei quickly greeted Rachel and said, "Victor, please vote for me."

"Of course, our Braddock Star, you are a celebrity, I will support you!" Victor smiled and opened his arms, and hugged Wang Lei enthusiastically. This was the best news Wang Lei heard today. He already has the halo of "Town Star" and "Community Star" and "Young Leader" halo, which can magnify all the support he receives.

Rachel turned around and said to the camera: "Dear viewers, Braddock's election has begun thirty minutes, and the earliest group of voters have completed their votes. We interviewed a total of thirteen voters who completed the vote. Eight of them think Hawk will be elected, and only three think Rex will be elected, including himself. It seems that most people are optimistic about the previous mayor Hawk, not the 18-year-old Rex."

"In addition, only five people made their votes public, four of which were Hawke and only one voted for Rex, which was voted for Rex himself."

"From the information we obtained in our interview, Hawke is likely to be re-elected, and our 18-year-old boy Rex has very little hope of being elected. What will happen in the end? We will follow up the reports in real time. Please continue to lock in the cable news station."

Obviously, Rachel was doing live reports on the spot, and the cable news station made live connections in the morning news, transmitting the real-time situation to thousands of households through radio waves.

"Rex, things are a little bad."

Wang Lei's campaign team is also in touch at any time. In order to do this, they tried every means to make everyone hold a mobile phone, mostly temporarily borrowed from their parents.

Colin was responsible for observing and analyzing the situation at the polling station. He looked at the library for a while and said to Wang Lei with a serious face: "The number of people voting this year seems to be more than in previous years."

The large number of voters means that Wang Lei must get more votes to win the election.

Wang Lei nodded: "I can see it too. Please confirm with everyone and see if the residents who may vote for me have come out to vote, especially the members of the club and mutual aid club. If not, contact them immediately and ask them to come out and vote for me."

"Okay, I'll go right away." Colin nodded and rode away immediately.

The turnout rate in local elections is usually very low. Whoever can win the election often depends on whose supporters have higher turnout rates and who can pull their supporters out, and there will be great hope of winning.

At this time, the people who are competing for whom the supporters come out to vote, and outside the polling station, who can influence those middle-aged voters who have not made up their minds or who don’t care whom they vote for, and let them vote for themselves.

There were many people voting for a while in the morning. Wang Lei persisted until noon, and then ate some food delivered by Hu Shuying. In the afternoon, he went to other polling stations for an hour each until 6 o'clock in the evening when the polling station closed.

Staff will order tickets overnight, and the results will not be announced at 9:00 the next morning.

This is destined to be a sleepless night.

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