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Early voting begins in the US midterm elections, potentially reshaping control of Congress.

Early voting begins in the US midterm elections, potentially reshaping control of Congress.

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September 18th, 2026

Early voting begins in the US midterm elections, potentially reshaping control of Congress.

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In-person voting for this year's midterm elections began on Friday, ushering in the final six weeks.

今年的中期选举现场投票于周五开始由此进入最后六周

The American people will decide which party they trust to lead Congress through the cost-of-living crisis, the protracted war with Iran, and other pressing issues.

美国民众将决定他们信任哪个党派来领导国会度过生活成本危机伊朗持久战以及其他紧迫问题

Election administrators say they are well prepared and confident that the voting will be accurate and secure.

选举管理人员表示他们已做好准备并相信投票准确且安全

Even so, President Donald Trump continues to discredit certain voting methods and reshape how elections are run, through court challenges, federal hunts for non-citizen voters, and pressure campaigns forcing election officials to share sensitive voter data.

尽管如此总统唐纳德·特朗普仍继续通过法庭挑战联邦搜捕非公民选民以及施压运动迫使选举官员分享敏感选民数据来诋毁某些投票方式并重塑选举运作方式

Friday marked the start of early voting in Virginia.

周五标志着弗吉尼亚州提前投票的启动

Voters in several other states, including Minnesota and South Dakota, were able to go to their local election offices or voting centers to cast absentee ballots in person.

包括明尼苏达州南达科他州在内的其他若干州的选民则可前往当地选举办公室投票中心亲自投下缺席选票

Over the coming weeks, those states and others plan to gradually roll out more extensive early voting.

未来数周内上述各州及其他州均计划逐步铺开更为广泛的提前投票

At a polling station in Fairfax, Virginia, 18-year-old college student Sanya Sinha was among the first to cast her ballot early in person on Friday morning; she arrived at the site well ahead of time and queued up, waiting for the doors to open.

在弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯的一处投票站,18岁的大学生桑娅·辛哈尔是周五早上首批亲自提前投票的人之一,她早早到达现场,排队等候开门。

"Why not add a bit of spice to life you know, try to be the first person to vote early?" she asked.

“何不为生活平添几分意趣——你懂的试着成为第一个提前投票的人?”她问道

"I genuinely long to take a hands-on part in my democracy."

我确实渴望切实参与我的民主。”

At a polling station in a suburb of Richmond, a poll worker rang a bell as the building opened, and about a dozen voters who had been waiting in line then filed in one after another.

在里士满郊区一处投票站一名投票站工作人员于建筑开放之际敲响了铃约十几名排队的选民随即鱼贯而入

Stephen Gura was thrilled to be the first person to enter.

斯蒂芬·古拉为能成为第一个进入的人兴奋不已

"This election is crucial. We must stop Trump's agenda," Gula said.

这次选举至关重要我们必须阻止特朗普的议程,”古拉说

He also said he voted for U.S. Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat, and for Shannon Taylor, the Democratic nominee challenging Republican incumbent Rob Wittman in the First Congressional District.

他还表示他投票支持美国参议员马克·沃纳一位民主党人以及香农·泰勒第一国会选区挑战共和党现任议员罗布·惠特曼民主党提名人

The elections on November 3 will encompass gubernatorial and state legislative races in most states, and will determine whether the Republican Party can retain control of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.

11月3日的选举将涵盖大多数州的州长州立法机构选举并决定共和党能否继续控制美国众议院参议院

If the Democrats recapture Congress, it would alter the trajectory of the final two years of Trump's term and would very likely lead to investigations and other oversight efforts.

如果民主党重新夺回国会将改变特朗普任期最后两年轨迹并很可能导致调查其他监督工作

At a polling center in the suburbs of Richmond, voters streamed in without pause.

在里士满郊区的投票中心选民川流不息

William Curry, a 74-year-old retiree who describes himself as an independent conservative with libertarian leanings, cast his vote for Warner's Republican challengers, Bert Mizusawa and Whitman.

74岁的退休人员威廉·库里自称是倾向自由意志主义的独立保守派他投票支持沃纳的共和党挑战者伯特·米祖萨瓦和惠特曼

Curry said that, apart from the war with Iran, he generally approves of Trump's job performance.

库里表示除与伊朗的战争外他总体上认可特朗普的工作表现

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本网站受reCAPTCHA以及Google隐私政策与服务条款的双重保障。

"He's stuck in an absolute mess that he can't get out of," Curry said, speaking about the conflict.

“他陷入了一个无法摆脱的烂摊子,”库里在谈到这场冲突时说。

On a rainy day in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 67-year-old Bill Gohring said he voted early at the county office because he would be traveling afterward.

在南达科他州苏福尔斯一个雨天67岁的比尔·戈林表示他之所以提前在县办公室投票是因为之后他将出行

He cast his ballot for a mix of Democrats and independents, and said Trump's "dictatorial tendencies are bad for America."

他将选票投给了民主党人独立人士的混合人选并表示特朗普的独裁倾向对美国不利”。

At an office in Sioux Falls, John Thomas, a retired conservative police officer, said that his foremost concerns were public safety and election integrity.

在苏福尔斯的办公室内保守派退休警察约翰·托马斯表示他最为关切的乃是公共安全选举诚信

He claimed that he did not wish to see undocumented immigrants living in the country exercising the right to vote in federal elections.

他声称自己不愿目睹居住于该国的非法移民在联邦选举中行使投票权

However, such fraudulent voting has been proven to be extremely rare.

然而此类欺诈性投票行为已被证实极为罕见

The 77-year-old asserted that Trump's immigration agenda is "absolutely right."

这位77岁的老人断言,特朗普的移民议程“完全正确”。

"If things stay exactly the same for another four years, we won't last much longer as a nation," he said.

“倘若再维持四年一成不变,我们作为一个国家便撑不了多久了,”他说道。

As early voting gets underway, many Americans find themselves deeply anxious and divided over issues such as rising gasoline and grocery prices, the war in Iran, the looming risks posed by artificial intelligence, and Trump's aggressive immigration enforcement actions.

随着提前投票的启动众多美国人汽油和食品杂货价格攀升、伊朗战争人工智能带来的迫近风险以及特朗普激进的移民执法行动问题深感焦虑与分裂

Previously, an unprecedented wave of mid-decade congressional redistricting had already emerged, originating when Trump urged the Republican-controlled Texas legislature to redraw the congressional map in order to benefit his party.

此前一场前所未有的中期十年众议院选区重划浪潮已经出现其始于特朗普敦促共和党控制的得克萨斯州立法机构重新绘制国会地图以帮助该党

California and other states soon followed suit.

加利福尼亚州和其他州紧随其后

These changes affect millions of people: research shows that this autumn, one in ten Americans will live in a congressional district that differs from the one in 2024.

这些变革波及数百万民众:研究表明,今年秋季,每十个美国人中就有一人所在的国会选区与2024年有所不同。

After the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling this year that weakened the federal Voting Rights Act's protections against racially discriminatory redistricting, these partisan efforts are expected to continue until the 2028 elections.

在最高法院今年做出一项具有里程碑意义的裁决,削弱了联邦《投票权法》对种族歧视性选区重划的保护之后,这些党派性努力预计将持续到2028年选举前。

As early voting approaches, Trump is pushing hard to assert federal control over election administration, even though the Constitution assigns that authority to the states and, in certain cases, to Congress.

随着提前投票临近特朗普着力主张联邦对选举管理的控制权尽管宪法将选举管理权赋予各州并在某些情况下赋予国会

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Trump's request to restrict mail-in ballots, but several other efforts by his administration to influence the voting process and investigate state voter rolls are still ongoing.

本周美国最高法院驳回了特朗普限制邮寄选票的请求,但其政府影响投票过程以及调查各州选民名单的其他几项努力仍在继续

Virginia's Democratic attorney general warned on Thursday that the Trump administration may have violated state law after a whistleblower alleged that federal employees falsely identified themselves on a voter lookup tool in order to search for non-citizen voters.

弗吉尼亚州民主党总检察长周四警告称在一名举报人指控联邦雇员选民查询工具虚假表明身份以搜寻非公民选民之后,特朗普政府可能已违反该州法律

For years, Trump has repeatedly conjured up the specter of rampant noncitizen voting in American elections, and this year is no exception.

特朗普多年来屡屡抛出美国选举中非公民投票泛滥这一幽灵今年亦不例外

Yet research has consistently shown that noncitizen voting is exceedingly rare.

然而研究持续表明非公民投票实属凤毛麟角

David Becker, the executive director and founder of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, said he would not be surprised if the Republican president continued "his disinformation campaign and attacks on election officials."

选举创新与研究中心执行主任兼创始人戴维·贝克尔表示这位共和党总统继续其虚假信息运动并攻击选举官员”,他不会感到意外

But in his view, "this process will continue just as it has over the past few years."

但他认为,“这一进程如过去几年一样持续下去”。

At least some of the voters who cast their ballots on Friday chose to vote early, and this can be attributed in part to Trump's actions.

至少有一部分在周五参与投票的选民之所以选择提前投票其部分原因可归结为特朗普的所作所为

In Minneapolis, Dragan Colakovic, a 47-year-old business process engineer, said he did not want to wait until Election Day because he was afraid of being stopped by immigration agents.

在明尼阿波利斯47岁的业务处理工程师德拉甘·乔拉科维奇表示他不想等到选举日因为担心被移民探员拦住

He said that earlier this year, Trump sent additional agents to Minnesota as part of an immigration crackdown, which filled him with fear.

他说今年早些时候特朗普在移民打击行动中向明尼苏达州增派探员这让他感到恐惧

He is a naturalized citizen who emigrated from Bosnia to the United States in 1997 and witnessed the horrors of war in the former Yugoslavia.

他是1997年从波斯尼亚移居美国的归化公民曾目睹前南斯拉夫的战争恐怖

"It is exactly like what I witnessed in Bosnia back then," he said, at a time when heavily armed immigration agents repeatedly swept through his neighborhood, which has a large immigrant population.

“这与我当年在波斯尼亚目睹的情形如出一辙,”他说道,当时全副武装的移民探员多次扫荡他所在的那个移民众多的社区。

He claimed, "These people are my neighbours, my friends," yet he was still arrested.

他声称,“这些人是我的邻居、我的朋友”,却仍遭到了逮捕。

Laura Brand, a 63-year-old Democratic voter from Henrico County, Virginia, said she cast her ballot early to send the message that "we are still here," even as Trump tries to restrict mail-in voting.

来自弗吉尼亚州亨利科县、现年63岁的民主党选民劳拉·布兰德表示,她提前投票,是为了发出“我们仍然在这里”的信号,尽管特朗普试图限制邮寄投票。

"Whether you cast your vote for a Democrat or a Republican, no one will be prevented or intimidated into giving up their participation in our elections," Brand said, almost moved to tears.

“无论你把票投给民主党人还是共和党人,谁都不会被阻止或恐吓而放弃参与我们的选举,”布兰德说,几乎感动得落泪。

This year, voting rights advocates have encouraged voters to cast their ballots by mail early, partly out of concern that recent operational changes at the United States Postal Service could delay the postmarking of ballots.

投票权倡导者今年鼓励选民提前邮寄投票,部分原因是担心美国邮政服务近期的运营调整可能会延误给选票加盖邮戳。

"Early voting gives voters more options, eases the burden of queues on Election Day, and may even mean faster results," said Hannah Fried, co-founder and CEO of the voting rights organization All Voting Is Local.

提前投票为选民提供了更多选择减轻了选举日的排队负担甚至可能意味着更快的计票结果,”投票权组织所有投票都是地方性的联合创始人兼首席执行官汉娜·弗里德表示

The top official of the United States Postal Service likewise urged voters who choose to vote by mail to be sure to send their ballots out a week before the deadline.

美国邮政总局的最高官员同样敦促那些选择以邮寄方式投票的选民务必在截止日期前一周将选票寄出

"If people vote early, all the problems will simply resolve themselves," Postmaster General David Steiner said in an interview.

“倘若民众提前投票,一切问题便迎刃而解了,”邮政总局局长戴维·斯坦纳在接受采访时如是说。

At a press conference on Thursday, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon urged the public not to be swayed by reports questioning the conduct of the election, whether they had seen such reports firsthand or read about them.

在周四的新闻发布会上明尼苏达州国务卿史蒂夫·西蒙敦促公众切勿被那些质疑选举运作的报道所左右,无论这些报道是他们可能亲眼所见还是阅读到的

He said they would be able to vote "as usual."

他表示他们届时将能够像往常一样投票

"I simply want to emphasize that Minnesota's elections are, by their very nature, free, fair, accurate, honest, and secure," he said.

“我仅想强调,明尼苏达州的选举从本质上而言是自由、公正、精确、诚实且安全的,”他说道。

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