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

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

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September 18th, 2026

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

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In-person voting for this year's midterm elections commenced on Friday, thereby entering the final six-week countdown.

今年的中期选举现场投票于周五拉开帷幕由此步入最后六周倒计时

In the interim, the American public will be faced with a pivotal decision: which party they trust to steer Congress through the cost-of-living crisis, the protracted conflict with Iran, and other pressing challenges.

美国民众将在此间抉择究竟信赖哪个党派来引领国会渡过生活成本危机伊朗持久战以及其他迫在眉睫的难题

Election administrators assert that they are fully prepared and are confident that voting will proceed both accurately and securely.

选举管理人员宣称他们严阵以待笃信投票得以精准无虞地进行。

Nevertheless, President Donald Trump continues to employ tactics such as court challenges, federal hunts for noncitizen voters, and pressure campaigns compelling election officials to share sensitive voter data, in order to discredit certain voting methods and reshape how elections are conducted.

尽管如此总统唐纳德·特朗普继续借助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等手段诋毁某些投票方式重塑选举运作方式

Friday marked the commencement of early voting in Virginia.

周五标志着弗吉尼亚州提前投票的启幕

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

明尼苏达州南达科他州等其他若干州的选民亦可亲赴当地选举办公室或投票中心投下缺席选票

Over the coming weeks, those states and others are all set to roll out early voting on a broader scale in succession.

未来数周内上述诸州及其他各州均拟相继启动规模更为广泛的提前投票

At a polling station in Fairfax, Virginia, one of the first voters to cast an early ballot in person on Friday morning was an 18-year-old college student named Sanya Sinhal; she arrived early and queued up, waiting for the polling station to open.

在弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯的一处投票站,年仅18岁的大学生桑娅·辛哈尔便是周五清晨率先亲赴现场提前投票的选民之一;她早早抵达,排队等候投票站开门。

"Why not add a touch of spice to life's journeyyou know, why not try being the one who casts an early vote ahead of everyone else?" she asked.

何不为人生的旅途平添几分意趣呢——你懂的不妨尝试成为那个率先提前投票的人?”她如是问道

"I genuinely yearn to immerse myself in the exercise of my democracy."

着实渴望投身于我的民主实践之中。”

At a polling station on the outskirts of Richmond, as the building was opened to the public, a poll worker rang a bell, whereupon some dozen or so voters who had already been queuing outside filed in one after another.

在里士满近郊的一处投票站当建筑对外开放之际一名投票站工作人员摇响了铃铛约莫十余名已在门外排队的选民随即鱼贯而入

Stephen Gura was elated to have come first.

斯蒂芬·古拉为能拔得头筹倍感振奋

"This election is of paramount importance. We must put a stop to Trump's agenda," Gura remarked.

此次选举攸关重大我们必须遏止特朗普的议程,”古拉如是说

He further noted that he had cast his ballot for Democratic US Senator Mark Warner, as well as for Shannon Taylorthe latter being the Democratic nominee in the First Congressional District, who is contesting the seat currently held by Republican incumbent Rob Wittman.

他并指出,自己将选票投给了民主党籍美国参议员马克·沃纳以及香农·泰勒——后者第一国会选区民主党提名人正角逐共和党现任议员罗布·惠特曼所占据的席位

The elections on November 3rd encompass contests for governorships and state legislative seats in the majority of states, and their outcomes will determine whether the Republican Party can retain its grip on the House of Representatives and the Senate.

11月3日的选举涵盖大多数州州长州立法机构席位之争其结果将裁定共和党能否维系对众议院与参议院的掌控权

Should the Democrats succeed in reclaiming Congress, they would inevitably reshape the political trajectory of the final two years of Trump's tenure, with investigations and other oversight measures likely to ensue in quick succession.

倘若民主党成功重掌国会势将改写特朗普任内最后两年政治走向调查及其他监督举措恐随之纷至沓来

At a polling station on the outskirts of Richmond, voters streamed in without letup.

里士满城郊一处投票站选民络绎不绝

William Curry, a 74-year-old retiree who styles himself a libertarian-leaning independent conservative, cast his ballot for Warner's Republican challengers, Bert Mizusawa and Whitman.

74岁的退休人士威廉·库里自诩为倾向自由意志主义的独立保守派,他将选票投给了沃纳的共和党挑战者伯特·米祖萨瓦惠特曼

Curry said that, apart from the war with Iran, he broadly approves of Trump's performance in office.

库里表示除与伊朗的战争之外,他总体上认可特朗普的施政表现

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本网站受reCAPTCHA机制及Google隐私政策与服务条款的双重庇护。

"He has already sunk deep into an inextricable mess," Curry remarked, speaking of the conflict.

“他已然深陷一个无从挣脱的烂摊子,”库里在谈及这场冲突时如是说。

On a drizzly day in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 67-year-old Bill Gering said he had come to cast his ballot early at the county office because he would be traveling afterward.

在南达科他州苏福尔斯一个阴雨绵绵的日子里67岁的比尔·戈林表示,他之所以提前赴县办公室投票是因为此后他将外出旅行

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

他将选票投给了民主党人与独立人士的混合人选并称特朗普的“独裁倾向对美国不利”

At the Sioux Falls office, John Thomas, a conservative retired police officer, stated that his foremost concerns were public safety and electoral integrity.

在苏福尔斯办公室保守派退休警察约翰·托马斯表示其首要关切在于公共安全选举诚信

He asserted that he was loath to witness undocumented immigrants residing in the country casting ballots in federal elections.

他声称自己不愿目睹居住于该国非法移民参与联邦选举投票

Nevertheless, such fraudulent voting has been demonstrated to be exceedingly rare.

然而此类欺诈性投票行为经查证实极为罕见

Trump's immigration agenda is "entirely correct," the 77-year-old asserted.

特朗普的移民议程“完全正确”,这位77岁的老人如是断言。

"Were things to remain unchanged for another four years, we would not be far from forfeiting the very foundations of our nation," he remarked.

“倘若再维持四年一成不变,我们距丧失国之根本便为期不远了,”他说道。

As early voting gets underway, a great many Americans find themselves deeply anxious and sharply divided over a host of issues: the relentless rise in the price of gasoline and groceries, the war in Iran, the ever more imminent perils of artificial intelligence, and Trump's aggressive immigration enforcement campaign, among others.

值此提前投票启幕之时,众多美国民众对汽油与食品杂货价格的持续攀升、伊朗战事、人工智能日益迫近的风险,以及特朗普激进的移民执法运动等诸多议题,深感焦虑且分歧严重。

Previously, an unprecedented wave of mid-decade congressional redistricting had also emerged, originating when Trump urged the Republican-controlled Texas legislature to redraw the congressional map to benefit his party; California and various other states followed suit.

此前,一场史无前例的中期十年众议院选区重划浪潮亦随之涌现,其发端于特朗普敦促共和党掌控的得克萨斯州立法机构重新绘制国会地图,以助益该党;加利福尼亚州及其他诸州亦步其后尘。

These shifts affect millions of people: research indicates that this autumn, one in every ten Americans will reside in a congressional district different from the one they lived in in 2024.

这些变迁波及数百万之众研究表明今秋每十个美国人中便有一人所居的国会选区异于2024年

After a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court this year weakened the safeguards provided by the federal Voting Rights Act against racially discriminatory redistricting, such partisan manipulation is expected to persist until the eve of the 2028 elections.

在最高法院今年作出的一项具有里程碑意义的裁决削弱了联邦《投票权法》针对种族歧视性选区重划所提供的保障之后,此类党派性操弄预计将持续至2028年选举前夕。

As early voting approaches, Trump is vigorously asserting federal control over election administration, even though the Constitution vests that authority in the states and, under certain circumstances, in Congress.

随着提前投票的临近特朗普着力主张联邦对选举管理拥有控制权尽管宪法将选举管理的权力赋予各州,并在某些情形下赋予国会

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Trump's request to restrict mail-in ballots; nevertheless, several other initiatives by his administration to influence voting procedures and investigate state voter rolls continue to move forward.

本周美国最高法院驳回了特朗普关于限制邮寄选票的请求然而其政府影响投票程序以及调查州选民名单的其他若干举措仍在持续推进

Virginia's Democratic attorney general issued a warning on Thursday that the Trump administration may have violated state law, following a whistleblower's allegation that federal employees had fabricated identities on a voter lookup tool in order to search for noncitizen voters.

弗吉尼亚州民主党总检察长于周四发出警示,称在一名举报人指控联邦雇员为搜寻非公民选民而在选民查询工具上伪造身份之后,特朗普政府恐已触犯该州法律。

For years, Trump has repeatedly conjured up the specter of rampant noncitizen voting in American elections, and this year has been 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·贝克尔表示倘若这位共和党总统持续虚假信息运动攻讦选举官员”,他对此不会感到意外

Yet he also said he believed that "this process will continue as it has for years past."

然而他亦称他认为这一进程一如往昔数年那般延续下去”。

For at least some of the voters who cast their ballots on Friday, the decision to vote early can be attributed in part to Trump's conduct.

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

In Minneapolis, Dragan Jokovic, a 47-year-old business processing engineer, frankly admitted that he had no intention of waiting idly for Election Day to arrive, for fear of being stopped and questioned by immigration agents.

在明尼阿波利斯现年47岁的业务处理工程师德拉甘·乔拉科维奇坦言他无意坐等选举日来临唯恐遭移民探员拦截盘查

He asserted that Trump's move earlier this year to deploy additional agents to Minnesota as part of an immigration crackdown had filled him with profound fear.

他声称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之举,令他深感恐惧

As a naturalized citizen who emigrated from Bosnia to the United States in 1997, he had personally experienced the horrors of the former Yugoslav wars.

作为一名1997年自波斯尼亚移居美国的归化公民他曾亲历前南斯拉夫战争的恐怖

"What is unfolding here bears an uncanny resemblance to the scenes I witnessed in Bosnia all those years ago," he remarked, speaking of the heavily armed immigration agents who had repeatedly swept through the immigrant neighborhood where he lives.

此情此景与我当年在波斯尼亚目睹之种种可谓如出一辙,”他谈及全副武装的移民探员屡次扫荡其所在的那个移民聚居的社区时如是说。

He declared, "These people are my neighbours, my friends," yet was promptly thrown behind bars.

他宣称,“这些人是我的邻居、我的朋友”,却旋即身陷囹圄。

Laura Brand, a 63-year-old Democratic voter in Henrico County, Virginia, said she cast her ballot early to signal that "we are still here," even as Trump seeks to impose restrictions on mail-in voting.

弗吉尼亚州亨利科县63岁的民主党选民劳拉·布兰德表示,她之所以提前投票,意在传递“我们仍然在这里”的信号,纵然特朗普正试图对邮寄投票施以限制。

"Whether you cast your ballot for a Democrat or a Republican, no one will ever be obstructed or intimidated into forgoing participation in our elections," Brand said, almost moved to tears.

“无论你把选票投给民主党人抑或共和党人,都绝不会有人遭到阻挠或恫吓,从而放弃参与我们的选举,”布兰德说道,几乎感动得潸然泪下。

The reason voting-rights advocates have this year encouraged voters to cast their ballots by mail early lies partly in their apprehension that recent operational adjustments by the United States Postal Service may delay the postmarking of ballots.

投票权倡导者今年之所以鼓励选民提前邮寄投票,部分缘由在于其忧虑美国邮政服务近期的运营调整恐将延误选票邮戳的加盖。

Early votingaffords voters choice, alleviates Election Day lines, and may even portend speedier results,” said Hannah Fried, co-founder and chief executive of All Voting Is Local, a voting rights organization.

提前投票“为选民提供了选择,缓解了选举日的排队,甚至可能意味着更快的结果,”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·弗里德说。

The highest-ranking official of the United States Postal Service likewise urged voters who opt to cast their ballots by mail to ensure they send them in a full week before the deadline.

美国邮政总局的最高官员亦敦促那些选择以邮寄方式投票的选民,务必于截止日期前一周将选票寄出。

"If people vote early, all the problems simply melt away," 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 they might hear or witness that call the mechanics of the election into question.

在周四的新闻发布会上明尼苏达州国务卿史蒂夫·西蒙敦促民众切勿为那些他们可能耳闻或目睹的、质疑选举运作机制的报道所左右

He stated that they would then be able to vote "as usual."

他表示他们届时将得以像往常一样投票

He declared: "I wish simply to reiterate that Minnesota's elections are, at bottom, free, fair, accurate, honest, and secure."

他宣称:“我唯愿重申,明尼苏达州的选举从根本上而言,乃是自由、公平、准确、诚实且安全的。”

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