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US midterm early voting begins, congressional control may shift

US midterm early voting begins, congressional control may shift

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September 18th, 2026

US midterm early voting begins, congressional control may shift

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As in-person voting for this year's midterm elections began on Friday, the final six weeks commenced, during which Americans will decide which party they entrust with congressional leadership to navigate the cost-of-living crisis, the protracted war with Iran, and other urgent matters.

์˜ฌํ•ด ์ค‘๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋Œ€๋ฉด ํˆฌํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๋ฉด์„œ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด ์ƒํ™œ๋น„ ์œ„๊ธฐ์™€ ์žฅ๊ธฐํ™”๋œ ์ด๋ž€ ์ „์Ÿ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๊ธด๊ธ‰ ํ˜„์•ˆ์„ ํ—ค์ณ ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์˜ํšŒ ์ง€๋„๋ ฅ์„ ์–ด๋А ์ •๋‹น์— ๋งก๊ธธ์ง€ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•  ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ 6์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Election officials say they are fully prepared and are confident that the voting will be conducted accurately and securely.

์„ ๊ฑฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๊ด€๋“ค์€ ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋œ ์ƒํƒœ์ด๋ฉฐ ํˆฌํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํžˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Nevertheless, President Donald Trump is continuing his efforts to disparage certain voting methods and reshape how elections are run, through court challenges, a federal crackdown on noncitizen voters, and a campaign pressuring election officials to share sensitive voter data.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ๋ฒ•์›์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ด์˜ ์ œ๊ธฐ, ๋น„์‹œ๋ฏผ๊ถŒ์ž ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ์ฐจ์›์˜ ์ƒ‰์ถœ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๊ด€๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ•œ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์••๋ฐ•ํ•˜๋Š” ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํŠน์ • ํˆฌํ‘œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ํ„ํ•˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์„ ๊ฑฐ ์šด์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์žฌํŽธํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Friday marked the day early voting began in Virginia.

๊ธˆ์š”์ผ์€ ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„์ฃผ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์ „ ํˆฌํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ์‹œ๋œ ๋‚ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Voters in several other states, including Minnesota and South Dakota, can also typically cast absentee ballots in person at their local election office or polling place.

๋ฏธ๋„ค์†Œํƒ€์™€ ์‚ฌ์šฐ์Šค๋‹ค์ฝ”ํƒ€๋ฅผ ๋น„๋กฏํ•œ ๋ช‡๋ช‡ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ฃผ์˜ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค ์—ญ์‹œ ํ†ต์ƒ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง€์—ญ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œ๋‚˜ ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ์—์„œ ๋ถ€์žฌ์ž ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ํ–‰์‚ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

More extensive early voting is set to begin in these and other states over the coming weeks.

๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์ „ ํˆฌํ‘œ๋Š” ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ช‡ ์ฃผ ๋‚ด์— ์ด๋“ค ์ฃผ์™€ ์—ฌํƒ€ ์ฃผ์—์„œ ๊ฐœ์‹œ๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋‹ค.

At a polling station in Fairfax, Virginia, Shanya Singhal, an 18-year-old college student, was among the first to cast an early vote in person on Friday morning, arriving and lining up long before the polling station opened its doors.

๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„์ฃผ ํŽ˜์–ดํŒฉ์Šค์˜ ํ•œ ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ์—์„œ 18์„ธ ๋Œ€ํ•™์ƒ ์ƒค๋ƒ ์‹ฑ๊ฐˆ์€ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ ์•„์นจ ์ผ์ฐ ์‚ฌ์ „ ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ํ–‰์‚ฌํ•œ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ ์ค‘ ํ•œ ๋ช…์œผ๋กœ์„œ, ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌธ์„ ์—ด๊ธฐ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ „์— ๋„์ฐฉํ•ด ์ค„์„ ์„ฐ๋‹ค.

"Why shouldn't I be allowed to enjoy a moment of pleasure in life, you know, wanting to be the first early voter?" she said.

โ€œ์ธ์ƒ์—์„œ ์ž ์‹œ๋ผ๋„ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›€์„ ๋ˆ„๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ด์งธ์„œ ํ—ˆ์šฉ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ, ์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ, ์ตœ์ดˆ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ „ ํˆฌํ‘œ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ธ๋ฐ์š”?โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"I sincerely want to participate in my democracy."

โ€œ์ €๋Š” ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ œ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

At a polling station located in a suburb of Richmond, as soon as the building opened, an election official rang a bell, and roughly twelve voters who had been waiting began to file in.

๋ฆฌ์น˜๋จผ๋“œ ๊ต์™ธ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ํ•œ ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ์—์„œ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐฉ๋˜์ž ํˆฌํ‘œ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๊ด€์ด ์ข…์„ ์šธ๋ ธ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋Œ€๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ์•ฝ 12๋ช…์˜ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์ด ์ž…์žฅํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Stephen Koo could not conceal his excitement at being the first in line.

์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธ ๊ตฌ๋ผ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์ด ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋ผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์— ํฅ๋ถ„์„ ๊ฐ์ถ”์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"This election is critical. We must block Trump's agenda," Gu said, adding that he voted for Democratic Senator Mark Warner and for Shannon Taylor, the Democratic candidate challenging Republican incumbent Rob Wittman in the 1st Congressional District.

"์ด๋ฒˆ ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋Š” ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ์˜์ œ๋ฅผ ๋ง‰์•„์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ตฌ๋ผ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น ์†Œ์† ๋งˆํฌ ์›Œ๋„ˆ ์ƒ์›์˜์›๊ณผ ์ œ1์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ํ˜„์—ญ ๋กญ ์œ„ํŠธ๋จผ์— ๋งž์„œ๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น ํ›„๋ณด ์„€๋„Œ ํ…Œ์ผ๋Ÿฌ์—๊ฒŒ ํˆฌํ‘œํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

In the November 3 election, gubernatorial and state legislative races will be held alongside each other in most states, and this will determine whether the Republican Party can retain control of the U.S. House and Senate.

11์›” 3์ผ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์ฃผ์—์„œ ์ฃผ์ง€์‚ฌ์™€ ์ฃผ ์˜ํšŒ ์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์น˜๋Ÿฌ์ง€๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ•˜์›๊ณผ ์ƒ์›์˜ ํ†ต์ œ๊ถŒ์„ ๊ณ„์† ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

If the Democratic Party regains Congress, the direction of the final two years of Trump's term is most likely to shift and lead to investigations and other oversight activities.

๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น์ด ์˜ํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋˜์ฐพ์„ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ์ž„๊ธฐ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ 2๋…„์˜ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์ด ์ „ํ™˜๋˜๊ณ  ์กฐ์‚ฌ์™€ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๊ฐ๋… ํ™œ๋™์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์งˆ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฌ๋‹ค.

At a polling station in a Richmond suburb, voters came and went steadily.

๋ฆฌ์น˜๋จผ๋“œ ๊ต์™ธ์˜ ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ์—์„œ๋Š” ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์ด ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ๋“œ๋‚˜๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.

William Curry, a 74-year-old retiree who described himself as a libertarian-leaning independent conservative, voted for Burt Mizusawa and Wittman, Warner's Republican challengers.

์ž์‹ ์„ ์ž์œ ์ง€์ƒ์ฃผ์˜ ์„ฑํ–ฅ์˜ ๋ฌด์†Œ์† ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ฃผ์˜์ž๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ•œ 74์„ธ์˜ ์€ํ‡ด์ž ์œŒ๋ฆฌ์—„ ์ปค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์›Œ๋„ˆ์˜ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ๋„์ „์ž์ธ ๋ฒ„ํŠธ ๋ฏธ์ฃผ์‚ฌ์™€์™€ ์œ„ํŠธ๋จผ์—๊ฒŒ ํˆฌํ‘œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Curry said that, apart from the war in Iran, he largely approves of what Trump has done.

์ปค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ž€ ์ „์Ÿ์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๊ณ ๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ํ•œ ์ผ์— ๋Œ€์ฒด๋กœ ์ฐฌ์„ฑํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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๋ณธ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋Š” reCAPTCHA์˜ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ํ•œํŽธ, Google ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ๋ณดํ˜ธ์ •์ฑ… ๋ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์•ฝ๊ด€์ด ์ ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

"He is caught up in an inescapable turmoil," Curry remarked regarding the dispute.

โ€œ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ํ˜ผ๋ž€์— ๋น ์ ธ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์ปค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ถ„์Ÿ์— ๊ด€ํ•ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

On a rainy day in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 67-year-old Bill Goering stated that he had cast an early vote at the county office because he had upcoming travel plans.

์‚ฌ์šฐ์Šค๋‹ค์ฝ”ํƒ€์ฃผ ์ˆ˜ํด์Šค์—์„œ ๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋˜ ๋‚ , 67์„ธ์˜ ๋นŒ ๊ดด๋ง์€ ์ถ”ํ›„ ์—ฌํ–‰ ๊ณ„ํš์ด ์˜ˆ์ •๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์–ด ์นด์šดํ‹ฐ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์ „ ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

He split his vote between the Democratic candidate and an independent candidate, and remarked that Trump's "dictatorial tendencies are harmful to America."

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น ํ›„๋ณด์™€ ๋ฌด์†Œ์† ํ›„๋ณด์—๊ฒŒ ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋ถ„์‚ฐํ•ด ํˆฌํ‘œํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ โ€œ๋…์žฌ์  ์„ฑํ–ฅ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ํ•ด๋กญ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

John Thomas, a conservative retired police officer who used to work at the Sioux Falls office, said that his greatest concerns were public safety and election integrity.

์ˆ˜ํด์Šค ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œ์— ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ณด์ˆ˜ ์„ฑํ–ฅ์˜ ์€ํ‡ด ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ๊ด€ ์กด ํ† ๋จธ์Šค๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์šฐ๋ ค๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๊ณต ์•ˆ์ „๊ณผ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๋ฌด๊ฒฐ์„ฑ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He stated that he did not want to see undocumented immigrants voting in federal elections.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ถˆ๋ฒ• ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ์ด๋ฏผ์ž๋“ค์ด ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ ํˆฌํ‘œํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Such fraudulent voting has turned out to be extremely rare.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ถ€์ • ํˆฌํ‘œ๋Š” ๊ทนํžˆ ๋“œ๋ฌธ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.

At the age of 77, he declared that Trump's immigration agenda was "exactly right."

๊ทธ๋Š” 77์„ธ์˜ ๋‚˜์ด๋กœ, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ์ด๋ฏผ ์˜์ œ๊ฐ€ โ€œ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋งž๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"If the situation had persisted for another four years, we would not have survived as a nation for that long," he said.

โ€œ๋งŒ์•ฝ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด 4๋…„ ๋” ์ง€์†๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทธํ† ๋ก ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋กœ ์กด์†ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Early voting began at a time when many Americans were experiencing profound anxiety and division, owing to a range of issues: rising gasoline and grocery prices, the war in Iran, the looming threat of artificial intelligence, and Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown campaign.

์‚ฌ์ „ ํˆฌํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ํœ˜๋ฐœ์œ ์™€ ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ƒ์Šน, ์ด๋ž€ ์ „์Ÿ, ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ์˜ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” ์œ„ํ—˜, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ์ด๋ฏผ ๋‹จ์† ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ ๋“ฑ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด ๊นŠ์€ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ณผ ๋ถ„์—ด์„ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์˜€๋‹ค.

This emerged after an unprecedented mid-decade wave of congressional redistricting, which was set off when Trump urged the Republican-controlled legislature in Texas to redraw the federal House district map to benefit his party.

์ด๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค์˜ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ์žฅ์•… ์˜ํšŒ์— ๋‹น์— ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•˜๋„๋ก ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ํ•˜์› ์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ตฌ ์ง€๋„๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ทธ๋ฆด ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ด‰๊ตฌํ•œ ๋ฐ์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋œ, 10๋…„ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ „๋ก€ ์—†๋Š” ํ•˜์› ์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ตฌ ์žฌํš์ • ๋ฌผ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚œ ์ดํ›„์— ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

California and other states followed suit.

์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„์™€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ฃผ๋“ค๋„ ๊ทธ ๋’ค๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ž๋‹ค.

These changes affect millions of people, and research shows that this fall, one in ten Americans will live in a different congressional district from the one they lived in in 2024.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ€์„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ 10๋ช… ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ 1๋ช…์€ 2024๋…„ ๋‹น์‹œ์™€๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ํ•˜์› ์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ตฌ์— ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค.

These partisan efforts are expected to continue until the 2028 election, following the landmark ruling this year in which the U.S. Supreme Court weakened the protections of the federal Voting Rights Act against racially discriminatory redistricting.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋‹นํŒŒ์  ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์€ ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ๋Œ€๋ฒ•์›์ด ์ธ์ข… ์ฐจ๋ณ„์  ์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ตฌ ํš์ •์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ถŒ๋ฒ•์˜ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ์•ฝํ™”์‹œํ‚จ ํš๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ํŒ๊ฒฐ์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฐ ์ดํ›„, 2028๋…„ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ์ „๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ณ„์†๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋œ๋‹ค.

As the start of early voting approaches, Trump has focused his efforts on asserting federal control over election administration, even though the Constitution grants authority over election operations to the states and, in certain cases, to Congress.

์‚ฌ์ „ ํˆฌํ‘œ ๊ฐœ์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์ž„๋ฐ•ํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ํ—Œ๋ฒ•์ด ์„ ๊ฑฐ ์šด์˜ ๊ถŒํ•œ์„ ์ฃผ์™€ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์˜ํšŒ์— ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์„ ๊ฑฐ ํ–‰์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ์ฐจ์›์˜ ํ†ต์ œ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค.

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

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ๋Œ€๋ฒ•์›์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ ์šฐํŽธ ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ œํ•œํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ์‹œ๋„๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๊ฐํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ํˆฌํ‘œ ๊ณผ์ •์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๊ณ  ์ฃผ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž ๋ช…๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€์˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ณ„์†๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

On Thursday, Virginia's Democratic attorney general warned that the Trump administration may have violated state law, after a whistleblower alleged that federal employees had deceived him through a voter lookup tool in order to identify noncitizen voters.

๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„์ฃผ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น ๋ฒ•๋ฌด์žฅ๊ด€์€ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ๊ณ ๋ฐœ์ž๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ์ง์›๋“ค์ด ๋น„์‹œ๋ฏผ๊ถŒ์ž ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž ์กฐํšŒ ๋„๊ตฌ์—์„œ ์ž์‹ ์„ ์†์˜€๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ณ ๋ฐœํ•œ ํ›„, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๋ฒ•์„ ์œ„๋ฐ˜ํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ชฉ์š”์ผ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

For years, Trump has persistently raised the specter of widespread voting by non-citizens in American elections, and this year is no exception.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ๋น„์‹œ๋ฏผ๊ถŒ์ž ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ผ๋Š” ์œ ๋ น์„ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์ œ๊ธฐํ•ด ์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์˜ฌํ•ด ์—ญ์‹œ ์˜ˆ์™ธ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Nevertheless, research findings have consistently demonstrated that voting by non-citizens is extremely rare.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋น„์‹œ๋ฏผ๊ถŒ์ž ํˆฌํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ๊ทนํžˆ ๋“œ๋ฌผ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž…์ฆํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

David Becker, the founder and executive director 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 administrators."

์„ ๊ฑฐ ํ˜์‹  ๋ฐ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์„ผํ„ฐ์˜ ์„ค๋ฆฝ์ž ๊ฒธ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์ด์žฅ์ธ ๋ฐ์ด๋น„๋“œ ๋ฒ ์ปค๋Š” ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด "๊ทธ์˜ ํ—ˆ์œ„ ์ •๋ณด ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ๊ณผ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๊ด€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ"์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„ ๋†€๋ผ์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

However, he said he believes that "the procedures will hold, just as they have over the past several years."

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋Š” "๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๋ช‡ ๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ๊ทธ๋žฌ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋Š” ์œ ์ง€๋  ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

On Friday, at least some voters were motivated to cast their ballots early, partly spurred on by Trump's actions.

๊ธˆ์š”์ผ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ์ ์–ด๋„ ์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ํ–‰๋™์— ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ํž˜์ž…์–ด ์‚ฌ์ „ ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๋™๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Dragan Kolakovic, a 47-year-old business processing engineer living in Minneapolis, said he was reluctant to wait until Election Day because he was worried about the possibility of being stopped by immigration enforcement agents.

๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ์• ํด๋ฆฌ์Šค์— ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๋Š” 47์„ธ์˜ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์‹ฑ ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด์ธ ๋“œ๋ผ๊ฐ„ ์ฝœ๋ผ์ฝ”๋น„์น˜๋Š” ์ด๋ฏผ ๋‹จ์† ์š”์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ €์ง€๋  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์—ผ๋ คํ•œ ํƒ“์— ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๋‹น์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์ €ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

He said that Trump's large-scale deployment of immigration enforcement agents to Minnesota earlier this year had left him gripped by fear.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ดˆ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๋„ค์†Œํƒ€์ฃผ์— ์ด๋ฏผ ๋‹จ์† ์š”์›๋“ค์„ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ๋กœ ํŒŒ๊ฒฌํ•œ ์ผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ž์‹ ์ด ๊ณตํฌ์— ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žกํ˜”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

A naturalized U.S. citizen who emigrated from Bosnia in 1997, he had witnessed the horrors of war in the former Yugoslavia.

1997๋…„ ๋ณด์Šค๋‹ˆ์•„์—์„œ ์ด์ฃผํ•œ ๊ท€ํ™” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‹œ๋ฏผ์ธ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ตฌ ์œ ๊ณ ์Šฌ๋ผ๋น„์•„์—์„œ ์ „์Ÿ์˜ ์ฐธ์ƒ์„ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•œ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ๋‹ค.

"It was an echo of what I had witnessed in Bosnia," he said, referring to the heavily armed immigration enforcement agents who had repeatedly swept through his neighborhood, which is home to many immigrants.

โ€œ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ณด์Šค๋‹ˆ์•„์—์„œ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ณธ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์šธ๋ฆผ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด๋ฏผ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์ด ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋™๋„ค๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋“ญ ํœฉ์“ด ์ค‘๋ฌด์žฅ ์ด๋ฏผ ๋‹จ์† ์š”์›๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"These were my neighbors and friends," he said as he was being arrested.

"์ด๋“ค์€ ์ œ ์ด์›ƒ์ด์ž ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ฒดํฌ๋˜๋Š” ์ค‘์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Laura Bland, a 63-year-old Democratic voter residing in Henrico County, Virginia, said she voted early in order to send "a signal that we are still here," despite Trump's attempts to curtail mail-in voting.

๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„์ฃผ ํ—จ๋ผ์ด์ฝ” ์นด์šดํ‹ฐ์— ์‚ฌ๋Š” 63์„ธ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž ๋กœ๋ผ ๋ธ”๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ์šฐํŽธ ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ถ•์†Œํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์‹œ๋„์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  "์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‹ ํ˜ธ"๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์กฐ๊ธฐ์— ํˆฌํ‘œํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"Whether people cast their ballots for a Democrat or a Republican, no one will be obstructed or intimidated when it comes to taking part in our elections," Bland said in a voice that seemed on the verge of tears.

โ€œ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น์›์—๊ฒŒ ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋˜์ง€๋“  ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น์›์—๊ฒŒ ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋˜์ง€๋“ , ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ์–ด ๋ฐฉํ•ด๋ฐ›๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์œ„ํ˜‘๋ฐ›๋Š” ์ผ์€ ์—†์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ธ”๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ˆˆ๋ฌผ์ด ๋‚  ๋“ฏํ•œ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Voting rights advocates have encouraged voters to cast their mail-in ballots early this year, partly due to concerns about recent operational changes at the United States Postal Service that could delay the postmarking of ballots.

ํˆฌํ‘œ๊ถŒ ์˜นํ˜ธ์ž๋“ค์€ ์˜ฌํ•ด ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์šฐํŽธ ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์กฐ๊ธฐ์— ์‹ค์‹œํ•˜๋„๋ก ๊ถŒ์žฅํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ํˆฌํ‘œ์šฉ์ง€ ์†Œ์ธ ๋‚ ์ธ์„ ์ง€์—ฐ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์šฐ์ •๊ตญ์˜ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์šด์˜ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•œ๋‹ค.

Hannah Friedโ€”co-founder and CEO of the voting rights organization 'All Voting Is Local'โ€”said that early voting "gives voters options, eases lines on Election Day, and may even mean faster results."

ํ•ด๋‚˜ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋“œโ€”ํˆฌํ‘œ๊ถŒ ๋‹จ์ฒด โ€˜๋ชจ๋“  ํˆฌํ‘œ๋Š” ์ง€์—ญ์ ์ด๋‹คโ€™์˜ ๊ณต๋™ ์„ค๋ฆฝ์ž ๊ฒธ CEOโ€”๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ „ ํˆฌํ‘œ๊ฐ€ โ€œ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž์—๊ฒŒ ์„ ํƒ๊ถŒ์„ ์ฃผ๊ณ , ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๋‹น์ผ ์ค„์„ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ๋” ๋น ๋ฅธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์˜๋ฏธํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The head of the United States Postal Service also encouraged voters who cast their ballots by mail to send in their ballots a week before the deadline.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์šฐ์ •๊ตญ์˜ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ฑ…์ž„์ž๋„ ์šฐํŽธ์œผ๋กœ ํˆฌํ‘œํ•˜๋Š” ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํˆฌํ‘œ์šฉ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๊ฐ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ ์ „์— ๋ฐœ์†กํ•˜๋„๋ก ์žฅ๋ คํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"If people cast their votes early, everything will be resolved smoothly," Postmaster General David Steiner said in an interview.

โ€œ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์กฐ๊ธฐ์— ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ–‰์‚ฌํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์ด ์›๋งŒํžˆ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ๋  ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐ์ด๋น„๋“œ ์Šˆํƒ€์ด๋„ˆ ์šฐ์ •์ฒญ์žฅ์ด ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ์—์„œ ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

At a news briefing on Thursday, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon urged the public not to be alarmed even if they come across or read articles that call the conduct of the election into question.

๋ชฉ์š”์ผ ๋‰ด์Šค ๋ธŒ๋ฆฌํ•‘์—์„œ ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ์‚ฌ์ด๋จผ ๋ฏธ๋„ค์†Œํƒ€ ์ฃผ๋ฌด์žฅ๊ด€์€ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ์šด์˜์— ์˜๋ฌธ์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ ‘ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ฝ์—ˆ๋”๋ผ๋„ ๋™์š”ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ง๋ผ๊ณ  ๋Œ€์ค‘์—๊ฒŒ ์ด‰๊ตฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He said voters would be able to cast their ballots "just as they always have."

๊ทธ๋Š” ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์ด โ€œํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ทธ๋žฌ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผโ€ ํˆฌํ‘œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"I want to reaffirm that Minnesota's elections are fundamentally free, fair, accurate, honest, and secure," he said.

โ€œ์ €๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋„ค์†Œํƒ€์˜ ์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ณ , ๊ณต์ •ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ •์งํ•˜๊ณ , ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ์žฌํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

September 18th, 2026

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