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Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Gillum is trying to become the first black governor of Florida. Here, he listens to locals at an election stop on Monday August 13, 2018 in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood. (AP Photo / Lynne Sladky)(Photo: AP)
WASHINGTON – Democrat Andrew Gillum and Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis have been engaged in a tight race from the Florida governor on Thursday night.
Gillum is trying to become the first black governor in Florida history and the first democratic governor in the Sunshine State since 1994.
In Georgia, Democrats Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp were also in a very tight race that, according to some analysts, would take a long time to decide the election results. Abrams is trying to become the first black governor in US history.
The 36 governor races decided on Tuesday will play a major role in the next two elections: the winners will help their party's presidential candidates in 2020 and play a key role in defining the new boundaries of the district's House for the elections of mid-term of 2022.
The voting process itself has become a major problem in the race in Georgia with Kemp accusing Democrats of trying to hack the state's electoral system and Abrams accusing Kemp, secretary of state, to try to suppress the participation of minority voters.
A group of Georgian voters filed suit in the US District Court in Atlanta to prevent Kemp from presiding over elections due to concerns over his fairness.
Common Cause, a member of the coalition for protection of elections, said that at 10:30 he had been informed that "voting machines would be down in large numbers in the state".
Election monitoring groups reported waiting times for three-hour voters Tuesday in the Atlanta metropolitan area – a result of a combination of high voter turnout and problems techniques.
Problems with the machines used to register voters in five constituencies in Gwinnett County, which are part of the northeastern metropolitan area of Atlanta, have caused delays. In one case, a precinct did not open on time and a judge ordered him to remain open until 19:25. AND, the Gwinnett Daily Post reported.
On the eve of the poll, the Republicans elected 33 out of 16 governors for Democrats. An independent governor, Alaska's Governor Bill Walker, withdrew from his re-election campaign a few weeks ago.
Of the 33 seats held by the GOP, 26 are in election and 13 of them are open. Of the 16 seats occupied by the Democrats, nine are in the running, four of which are open.
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Most experts predict that Democrats will have a net of six to eight governors. Three states currently in the hands of the GOP – Illinois, Michigan and New Mexico – seem likely to elect Democratic governors.
Many observers believe that nine races are at the rendezvous: Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, Oklahoma, Maine, Nevada and Ohio.
Kansas and Oklahoma are proposing elections to replace limited-time Republican governors – Sam Brownback in Kansas and Mary Fallin in Oklahoma – whose experiences with heavy tax cuts have left their states upset.
Democrats hope not only to reduce the GOP advantage among governors, but also the considerable advantage that Republicans have over legislative seats.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, the GOP holds nearly 1,000 more legislative seats than the Democrats (4,101 to 3,118) and controls about two-thirds of the state's legislatures. Thirty-four states have control of the party of the governor by the single party. The two legislative bodies – 26 are all Republicans and 8 are Democrats.
Once again, the composition of the state government becomes crucial when the results of the 2020 census are used to draw new maps of US House seats in each state. These new cards will be used for the first time in the 2022 election.
Experts explained that the GOP controlled much of the mapping after the 2000 census, giving the party a significant structural advantage. In a report released in March, the Brennan Justice Center estimated that Democrats should win 11 percentage points of total votes for House seats in order to regain control of the body.
Georgia On May 22, 2018, Stacey Abrams, a Democratic governor for Georgia, declares victory at the polls during the election night in Atlanta. Abrams is trying to become the first female African American governor of the country. (AP Photo) (Photo: Jessica McGowan, Getty Images)
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