Our world in photos: December 6
Brooklyn Eagle Staff
December 6, 2024
MANHATTAN — Early exposure to the process: Vesta Avery, 2, helps her mother, Alexis Taylor, mark her ballot at P.S. M811, The Mickey Mantle School, in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Children who are introduced personally to the voting process early in life learn the importance of this basic constitutional right.
The Mickey Mantle School, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, is named for the baseball icon who spent his entire career (1951-58) with the New York Yankees.
PALM BEACH — A couple united by politics: Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump walk after voting on Election Day at the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Palm Beach, FL. Trump has stated that paper ballots and one-day voting should be the norm, even though the Republican Party encouraged its voters to avail themselves of the early voting period. Trump also said on record that he would respect the election results — if it’s fair. But he didn’t say what he meant by “fair.”
In some states, including North Carolina, Republicans outnumbered Democrats in early voting; though, independents (unaffiliated voters) had the largest turnout, according to the News & Observer in the state’s capital, Raleigh. By late October, results in Arizona and Nevada showed more of a Republican turnout for early voting.
CINCINNATI — Making it official: Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, with children, arrives to vote at the St Anthony of Padua Maronite Catholic Church on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Cincinnati. Presidential nominee Donald Trump announced Vance as his running mate during the Republican National Convention in July. Before being tapped and going on the campaign trail, Vance served as Ohio’s junior U.S. Senator since 2023.
Vance himself is a convert to Catholicism after being raised “loosely evangelical” and then identifying for a while as an atheist, according to an Aug. 25, 2024, New York Times feature. Vance, who chose the 5th-century Doctor of the Church, St. Augustine, as his patron saint, was baptized by the Dominican friars (Order of Preachers) at St. Gertrude Priory and Church in Cincinnati.
NEW HAMPSHIRE — First vote in the township: Town Moderator Tom Tillotson, left, accepts the first ballot from Les Otten during the midnight vote on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Dixville Notch, NH, in the northern part of this state and near the Maine state line. The town of six total voters has a tradition dating back to 1960 and a reputation for being the first in the U.S. to complete its election results. They voted at the stroke of midnight. The Associated Press reported at 1:43 a.m. on Tuesday that the vote was split evenly: three for Harris and three for Trump.
However, the town’s six voters overwhelmingly chose Republican Kelly Ayotte over Democrat Joyce Craig 5-1 for the open governor’s seat after its incumbent, Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, chose not to seek re-election.
NEW YORK — Here’s what comes in the mail: Candidates for president and vice president of the United States, Democrats Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and Republicans former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, are seen on part of a mail-in election ballot in New York on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024. Each state has different rules for counting mail-in ballots. Many states have rules that bar the counting of mail-in ballots until Election Day and, in some cases, until the in-person polls close for the night. In close races, the accurate processing and tabulation of mail-in ballots takes time and might not be ready on Election night.
A handful of states, mostly in the western U.S., have all-mail ballots, meaning that all voters receive them automatically in the mail without having to make a request. Voters have the option of mailing their completed ballots or bringing them in person to polling stations.
PITTSBURGH — A couple united by politics: Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, left, shares a laugh with second gentleman Doug Emhoff, after reuniting in Pittsburgh, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, aboard Air Force Two, just before taking off from Pittsburgh for her final campaign rally in Philadelphia. Harris re-articulated her support of unions on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, hours after the International Association of Machinists voted to accept a contract from Boeing (after rejecting the first three offers). Congratulating both the IAM and Boeing, Harris said, “This agreement represents a positive step for Boeing’s future as a leader in the aerospace industry. As I always say, collective bargaining works.”
Union workers, most of whom identify as Democrats, are considered to be a crucial voting bloc in several battleground states that will likely determine who wins the White House, according to an article that the Pew Research Center published three weeks ago.
BRONX — With historical mural as backdrop, voters use machines on wheels: Voters cast their ballots at the Bronx County Supreme Court in New York on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Voters use these stations (but with no privacy curtain) to mark their ballots with blue or black pens, filling in the oval spaces next to their preferred candidates. The ballots are then fed into an optical scanner, which can tell the voter onsite whether his or her ballot was marked correctly. If not, the voter is given a chance to complete a new ballot.
Older New Yorkers may remember the mechanical-lever voting machines, complete with a draw curtain to maintain privacy. Those machines, dating back to the 1890s, were still in use in 20% of the country as recently as 1996, according to Verified Voting. By 2010, these machines were no longer in use.
Photo: Yuki Iwamura/AP
MICHIGAN — Bringing along the next generation: Three-year-old Zayn sits on his father’s shoulders as he inserts his ballot into a machine to vote at the First Presbyterian Church of Dearborn, on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Dearborn, MI. The city has a significant Arab American population, whose voters have been torn over the candidates’ stands on the Israel-Hamas war. Although emissaries of Harris have campaigned in Dearborn, local leaders say they cannot in good conscience vote for the vice president because of the war in Gaza, in which tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed, injured or experienced the destruction of their homes and livelihoods.
Some Dearborn voters have chosen to vote for neither Harris nor Trump, instead choosing third-party candidates such as Jill Stein. Some Muslim and other Arab American leaders have called for voters to choose only down-ballot candidates for the state and local races.
