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As of print deadline (8:45 p.m. CST), the results of the presidential election and the Jackson county races are mostly unknown.

The ballot counting process in many states has been slowed by a record number of mail in ballots and early voting totals that are still being processed.

Jackson county saw 5,514 early voters and 5,565 vote by mail ballots as of the afternoon before the election.

These vote by mail numbers are nearly five times higher than those the county saw in 2016 and its early voting numbers increased by 1,100 ballots.

As a state, Illinois saw an unprecedented number of mail in ballots and early voting, according to Matt Dietrich, Spokesman for the Illinois State Board of Elections.

“We have never had an election like this in history where you’re voting in a pandemic and there were two huge things that happened because of that.

Number one was we went from 370,000 votes by mail cast in the 2016 election to about, a little over 1.8 million votes cast by mail in this election. We also had double the number of votes cast before the

election,” Dietrich said.

All vote by mail ballots and provisional ballots postmarked on or before Nov. 3 have two weeks to be counted and the last of these are expected to be certified by election authorities on Nov. 17.

The board said they will not be releasing official election results until they are certified on Dec. 4, but Dietrich said he is confident they will make that deadline.

“The election authorities must have all the vote by mail ballots and [remaining] ballots counted by November 17th and then they are required to transmit their official numbers to us no later than November 24th and we know that will happen,” Dietrich said.

So far the Associated Press has called the state of Illinois for former Vice President Joe Biden and it has declared Dick Durbin the winner of the Illinois Senate race.

The Daily Egyptian will continue to monitor the results of the Jacskon county elections and the state and presidential election results on our website: www. dailyegyptian.com and on our Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Editor-in-Chief Kallie Cox can be reached at kcox@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @KallieECox.

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Associated Press calls Illinois presidential race for Biden Kallie Cox | @KallieECox

Former Vice President Joe Biden is projected to win the state of Illinois.

The Associated Press called the race at 7:00 p.m. CST. These results do not include many mail in ballots.

Illinois has 20 electoral votes, the most of any midwestern state. The majority of these votes have gone to the Democratic party for the past 28 years and in 2016 all 20 electors cast their votes for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

In order to defeat president Trump, Biden will need to secure 270 electoral votes. As of publication, Biden had 122 electoral votes and Trump had 92, according to the AP. Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North

Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin are this election’s “battleground states.”

The AP called Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico and Rhode Island for Biden. It called Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Louisiana, Nebraska, Mississippi, Tennessee and Oklahoma for Trump, as of publication.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. has seen a record number of mail-in ballots.

These ballots are expected to delay the ballot counting process.

Experts say the results of the 2020 election could remain uncertain for weeks.

Editor-in-Chief Kallie Cox can be reached at kcox@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @ KallieECox.

Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016 as he rallies supporters for Hillary Clinton in Orlando, Fla. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)

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Looking ahead: Understanding life in Jackson County after the election Courtney Alexander | @___Courtne02363844__

on the results of the election, everyday life for Americans, including those in Jackson County, may be different with new leadership in offices from local to the national level.

Tobin Grant, a political science professor at SIU, said national policy changes will not necessarily have an immediate impact on Jackson County.

“If Biden gets elected, you’re not going to see any changes at the national level in terms of what the federal government is doing, until at least the end of January,” Grant said.

Although direct changes to the area won’t be implemented for a few months, changes will eventually come into effect on the state level.

“The State Assembly has banked their budget on the [Graduated Income Tax Amendment] proposal passing because it would allow them to tax at a higher rate,” Grant said. “So if it passes, then their tax proposal will go through and then they should have close to the revenue that they’re expecting.”

According to Grant, if the state tax proposal passes, then it could help provide funding for public improvement projects.

“If it doesn’t pass, then they’re not going to raise income tax […] and so we would be looking at budget cuts, and

those budget cuts are going to really affect this region of the state,” Grant said. “Things like the Covid response, support for higher education like SIU, support for programs like the local healthcare system, support for local schools, all of those are going to have some dramatic cuts.”

If Trump were to be re-elected for another term in office, Jackson County could possibly expect a similar style of leadership from the administration similar to his first term in office, rather than large-scale changes.

“If Trump were to win, then people would be looking for a continuation of leadership,” Grant said.

Benjamin Bricker, an associate professor of political science at SIU, said when it comes to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Jackson County would be facing the same issues as the nation as a whole.

“In some ways the Jackson County area would be similar to the rest of the country, in that the main issue that would be decisive with the election is the handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the policies mitigate that,” Bricker said.

Under the Trump administration, the state and local governments typically have had a direct impact on implementing changes in the community rather than the federal government.

Following the election, there are increased chances of

violence and protests around the country.

The National Guard has been deployed to 16 states across the nation, according to the Military Times.

“There was a new round of newly-disclosed Guard activations Monday, including 1,000 troops in Massachusetts, 300 in Arizona, 300 in Alabama, and an undisclosed number in Florida, Oregon and Illinois,” the Military Times said in this article.

National Guard officials in Illinois would not elaborate on the specific duties of newly activated troops, according to the Military Times.

Although The National Guard’s duties aren’t directly stated for the State of Illinois, the National Guard does assist states with civil unrest as a result of the election, providing additional assistance at the polls, and various other duties.

Despite these reports, Grant said he would be surprised to see dramatic and widespread protesting.

“I think that in Jackson County and in this state and nationwide, we’re likely going to see people accept the election results and move on in with their lives and move on with whatever the results are,” Grant said.

Courtney Alexander can be reached at calexander@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @___Courtne02363844__

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Beyond the ballot: Carbondale poll workers discuss their role

Janae Mosby | @mosbyj Elizabeth Hamilton | ehamilton@dailyegyptian.com

On election day, the spotlight is on the presidential candidates. The process of voting is so ingrained in American life it can be easy to forget elections don’t happen without the hard work and conviction of the volunteer poll workers.

There are 350,000 poll workers across the country that are working to help the democratic process run smoothly, according to the Wall Street Journal.

With 44 total polling locations, Jackson County residents have several locations to make their voices heard.

Poll workers at three of these locations took time to share their experiences.

Tucker Poshard, a 17-year-old poll worker, was not able to vote for this year’s election, but he still wanted to make a difference.

Poshard turns 18 years old on Nov. 4, just barely missing the cutoff of being old enough to vote.

“I really wanted to vote this year, but I couldn’t. That is why I chose to do this because I felt duteous to my country and try to help preserve the integrity of this election,” Poshard said.

Poshard said he worried there would be fighting between people with differing opinions.

“It tended to be pretty good for the most part. Everybody respected each other’s decisions and the right to vote,” Poshard said.

Sharon Lorinskas, a poll worker at Carbondale High School, said she enjoyed seeing the large number of people voting.

“I really have enjoyed seeing the large number of people voting, particularly a lot of young people and first time voters,” Lorinskas said.

Lorinskas said the biggest challenge has been with people that thought they registered or did not know they had to register.

“We have to send them to the Civic Center to register and we had a few people who were at the wrong location,” Lorinskas said.

Another issue that has come up is people who applied for or received a mail-in ballot but did not bring it with them,

Lorinskas said.

First-time poll worker and hospital employee Paula Golz said the best way to help is to make sure everyone allows their voices to be heard through voting.

The voting process has seen some changes this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Working at the hospital, Golz said she is used to the extra cleaning COVID-19 brings, however only having access to 20 or so privacy sleeves that have to be cleaned constantly is not always easy.

“Being in the middle of a pandemic, there has been a shortage of people to come out and act as poll workers. I thought, as somebody who is younger and is less likely to have complications from COVID, to come and do my part,” Poshard said.

Staff reporter Janae Mosby can be reached at jmosby@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @mosbyj.

Staff reporter Elizabeth Hamilton can be reached at ehamilton@ dailyegyptian.com

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2020 Presidential Election sees record breaking voter turnout in Jackson County TĀmar Mosby | @mosbytamar

As of Nov. 3 at 11:14 a.m., there were 5,752 early voters and 5,637 mail-in voters in Jackson County.

The number of early voters and mail-in voters has increased by about 1,100 ballots and quintupled respectively since the 2016 presidential election.

The counts for in-person voters at the polls on election day in Jackson County were not available as of the Daily Egyptian’s print deadline (8:45 p.m. CST).

“That is pretty significant compared historically,” Jackson County clerk and recorder Frank Byrd said. “Back in 2018, the early vote total for the whole election was 3,522 and the vote by mail ballot return was 1,328. Back in 2016, the last presidential election, the number of people that voted early was 4,694 and the vote by mail ballot was 974.”

State voting numbers have also shown an increase in early and mailin voting.

In the 2016 presidential election,

the Illinois State Board of Elections recorded 370,000 votes by mail and a million and a half votes cast early for a total of 1.9 million overall.

This year the number has increased to 3.8 million, as according to a Nov. 3 pre-election ballot count from the Illinois State Board of Elections, 2,350,142 mail-in ballots have been requested statewide with 1,829,097 being returned and 1,911,537 early votes have been recorded.

Nationally, turnout for the 2020 election is set to shatter the 2016 records.

On the national level, as of print deadline, there were 99.7 million early votes cast, representing threequarters of the number of votes cast in the entire 2016 election, according to the New York Times.

Byrd said he believes while COVID-19 has played a part in the surge of voting by mail and early voting, the main force driving this is the number of options voters have been given when it comes to casting their ballots.

“I have extended the days for

voting early. I have the ballot retrieval box that’s down on the sidewalk in front of the west side of the courthouse. People are utilizing that, almost about 100 a day, ballots are coming into that ballot retrieval box. So I think these options I’ve put in place have given the people the opportunity to vote, and they’re taking advantage of it,” Byrd said.

Despite many individuals utilizing these opportunities, some of the ballots that have been mailed in or dropped off are not able to be counted, as they are not in compliance with certain voting regulations.

“There have been a few people that didn’t put [ballots] into their secrecy sleeves, so we are not going to be able to deal with that. It has to be done appropriately and the directions are on my website,” Byrd said. “On that page, it shows how to prepare your ballot certification and your vote by mail ballot, so that way there is no confusion and people can do that.”

The last day for Jackson County residents to request a vote by mail

ballot was Oct. 29.

Byrd said mail-in ballots must be postmarked before or on the day of the election in order to be counted.

Matt Dietrich spokesman for the Illinois State Board of Elections said because of this, the counts being published and televised on election night will be short by several hundred thousand votes.

“We’re looking at perhaps 300,000-400,000 vote by mail ballots that are still out there in the hands of voters and those still may arrive and be counted between now and November 17th,” Dietrich said. “So those numbers that voters will see tonight when they watch the results coming in on T.V., they could change by 400,000 votes. We are not exactly sure at this point how many ballots are still out there and how many may come in. We know that some of those mail ballots got turned in today by people who decided to vote in person instead.”

Dietrich said the results of the election will not be published on their website until Dec. 4 when statewide results are finalized and

he is confident that the Illinois State Board of Elections will make this deadline.

“The deadlines that we deal with and that the local election authorities deal with are all set in statute so there is no changing that we could not change the date of our official certification, the election authorities must have all the vote by mail ballots and [remaining] ballots counted by November 17th and then they are required to transmit their official numbers to us no later than November 24th and we know that will happen. We are confident that will happen,” Dietrich said.

Both Dietrich and employees of the Illinois State Board of Elections are watching pre-election ballot reports and communicating with local election authorities to get a sense of how turnout is going across the state.

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Political experts warn of possible violence following the election George Wiebe | gwiebe@dailyegyptian.com

Political experts in the United States have warned about an increase in violent activity following the 2020 presidential election.

The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project estimates increased chances of violence in the states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Oregon as a result of the election.

Three quarters of Americans believe there will violence following the results on election day according to a USA Today/Suffolk University Poll.

More in Common, a nonprofit group who have conducted similar polls, found about 97% of Republicans and 96% of Democrats feel violence would be justified as a result of a “stolen” election.

In the weeks leading up to the election, 13 men were charged for

an attempted plot to overthrow the governor of Michigan.

More recently a Biden campaign bus driving through Texas was surrounded by vehicles with Trump flags Video shows one of the trucks driving into another car near the bus resulting in minor damages.

As a result several Democratic events had been cancelled in the State and the FBI began an investigation into the matter.

Following the incident the president tweeted “I LOVE TEXAS” with a video below showing the Biden bus being followed by several trucks on the I-35 highway.

Neither the events in Michigan or Texas saw major acts of violence, like what took place in 2017 at the Charlottesville protests.

President Trump has used the fear and anxiety leading up to the election attempting to persuade voters.

In a September rally, Trump said “Democrats are trying to rig this election because that’s the only way they’re going to win.”

Trump has repeatedly urged his supporters to “watch the polls”, a tactic historically used to frighten off opposition voters.

“Since the country was founded, we have never seen the President of the United States endorsing the violent suppression of the opposition,” Virginia Tilley, a professor of political science at Southern Illinois University said.

The president’s comments during the first debate with Joe Biden seemingly requesting right wing militia groups like the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” have done nothing to ease public concern.

“Trump has given these people kind of a new lease on life,” Tilley said. “They’re suddenly dignified, and they feel emboldened to come

public.”

A Gallup poll conducted in 2019 found “hostility to the opposition party and its candidates has now reached a level where loathing motivates voters more than loyalty.”

“A lot of the confusion going on in the country today has to do with the fact that people don’t know how to parse the information that they’re getting,” Tilley said.

The Department of Homeland Security released their October threat assessment in which they noted Russia as a cyber security threat attempting to “damage U.S. critical infrastructure.”

The DHS confirmed foreign interference in the 2016 elections, and are watching for similar problems by the Russians, Chinese, and Iranians in 2020.

Both the FBI and DHS are on high alert this upcoming month regardless of outcome.

Earlier this year the Belarusian presidential election resulted in massive protests and violent suppression by the government, which some have used as a comparison to the U.S. In a recent interview with Slate, Rachel Kleinfeld, an associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the U.S. is not at the same risk of violent repercussions as other nations.

“When you analyze this in other countries, you look for risk factors and resilience factors. We have, in America, a number of the risk factors. Our resilience factors have been weakening, but they’re nowhere near as weak as they would be in some other countries,” Kleinfeld said.

Staff reporter George Wiebe can be reached at gwiebe@dailyegyptian.com

McConnell brushes off McGrath, claims a seventh term in US Senate Lexington Herald-Leader

LEXINGTON, Ky. (TNS) — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell brushed off a challenge by Democrat Amy McGrath Tuesday to win his seventh term as the rest of the country anxiously awaited the results of a contentious presidential election.

McConnell’s status as majority leader remains up in the air. It’s unclear which party will win a majority in the Senate after the COVID-19 pandemic changed voting patterns across the country and could potentially delay election results in several battleground states.

In what has been a tumultuous political year, the race between McGrath and McConnell appeared almost unalterable from the beginning. McConnell maintained a steady lead over McGrath in the polls through the impeachment of President Donald Trump, through the COVID-19 pandemic and the record unemployment that followed it, through a national reckoning on race, and through the loss of a liberal icon on the Supreme Court.

McGrath, who out-raised McConnell with a record $90 million through Oct. 14, was unable to peel support away from McConnell, who has cemented himself as the most powerful Republican in a state that has steadily turned away from the Democratic Party.

McConnell, 78, benefited from overwhelming support for President Donald Trump in Kentucky, but much of his victory came from the campaign machine Kentucky’s senior senator has built over the past 36 years.

The COVID-19 pandemic touched every aspect of the campaign, from drastically limiting the candidates’ ability to interact directly with voters to changing the method most Kentuckians used to vote. By the time polls opened at 6 a.m. on Election Day, more than 45% of registered voters had already cast their ballots.

None of it changed McConnell’s core strategy.

McConnell has built his career by aggressively going after his opponents and his campaign pounced on comments McGrath, 45, made in her 2018 campaign for the U.S. House, using them to paint her as an extreme liberal who was out of touch with Kentucky.

She was recorded saying she was “further left” than anyone in Kentucky in her house race.

On the campaign trail, McConnell played up the steep political divide between rural and urban areas of the country, often repeating that he was the only party leader in the House or the Senate that wasn’t from New York or California. He claimed his role in leadership helped Kentucky punch above its weight.

“I deal with this coastal snobbishness all the time,” McConnell said in Versailles Monday.

“My job is to look out for middle America and, in particular, look out for Kentucky, my favorite state.”

With Trump’s popularity holding relatively steady in Kentucky, McConnell positioned himself as a key Trump ally in Washington, D.C., by reshaping the federal judiciary over the past four years and defending the president after he was impeached by the House of Representatives.

His push to reshape the federal courts, which began when he held up nominations as minority leader during the administration of former President Barack Obama, became a key argument in McConnell’s effectiveness and was capped off with the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett a little more than a week before Election Day.

McGrath, a former pilot in the U.S. Marine Corps, argued that McConnell wasn’t using his clout to do enough for Kentucky and instead was only trying to further his political power.

She attempted to focus the race on the federal government’s patchwork response to the pandemic, particularly McConnell’s role in Congress’ inability to pass an additional COVID-19 relief package after many of the funds had dried up. While nearly 18,000 more Kentuckians were out of work in September compared to September 2019, Kentucky’s 5.6% unemployment rate was better than the national average.

Finger firmly planted in McConnell’s direction, McGrath used the lack of COVID-19 relief to criticize partisanship in Washington D.C., arguing that as leader of the Senate, McConnell has sullied the institution’s reputation and brought its ability to pass legislation to a screeching halt.

But McConnell had spent much of the summer touring the state and talking about the CARES Act, which pumped more than $1 billion into Kentucky to keep the economy afloat after restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19. When McGrath criticized him for not working on additional relief after many of the popular provisions of the CARES Act expired, McConnell attempted to place the blame on Democrats in the House of Representatives.

In the only debate between the two candidates, McConnell tried to dismiss McGrath as trivial.

“I think her entire campaign is, ‘She’s a Marine, she’s a mom and I’ve been there too long,’” McConnell said. (The McGrath campaign later sold merchandise with the phrase.)

McGrath’s star had already dimmed by the time she launched her campaign in July of 2019.

She burst onto the scene two years earlier as one of the fundraising juggernauts of the Democratic effort to take back the House of Representatives in 2018, but fell short of unseating U.S. Rep. Andy Barr. Her reintroduction to voters last year faltered. After being painted as one of the most progressive candidates in Kentucky by Republicans in her House bid, McGrath’s moderate message jarred progressives, who appeared to offer tepid support through the rest of her campaign.

Amid restrictions that limited gatherings and discouraged anyone from bringing more than 50 people together in one place, the perception of McGrath’s flagging support was tough to combat, even with nearly unlimited financial resources.

At one of her socially distanced events Monday night, on a cold evening where the bluegrass band even played Jingle Bells, McGrath thanked the volunteers and hard-core supporters who backed her campaign.

“I want to tell you all thank you,” McGrath told supporters. “This campaign, we’ve made a difference no matter what. I am super proud of this campaign.”

(c)2020 Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Ky.) Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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2020 election acros

Alara Pfeaster, 18, walks outside of the Jackson County Courthouse in Murphysboro Ill., Tuesday Nov. 3, 2020. “This is my first time [to vote]. I think its very important to vote,” Pfeaster said. “Before I did not think much about it but now its really important that we vote. It was definitely a little [nerve wrecking] for me but we have come up with. The lines were pretty quick so we didn’t need to wait for so long. Since it is [during] COVID, I will stay at home and see the results,” Pfeaster said. Monica Sharma

David Hester submits his ballot at the Senior Center in Belknap, Ill. Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. Leah Sutton | @leahsuttonphotography

Steve Barnes submits his ballot at the Senior Center in Belknap, Ill. Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.

Leah Sutton | @leahsuttonphotography

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Left: Voter Percy Wallace poses for his headshot Tuesday, November 3, 2020, in Carbondale, Ill. Wallace waited for over an hour to place his vote, as the non-registered applicant voting machines were in disrepair when the polling location opened. “This is what’s important you know? When you look back and tell your kids ‘Yeah I remember 2020, I got it right here’ and you can pull out the pictures and show that, what we went through, that’s powerful,” Wallace said. James B Allen | @skyclopsphotojamboree

Voters are set to cast their ballots at the Carbondale Civic Center in Carbondale, Ill., on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. Angel Chevrestt | @sobrofotos

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Carbondale community speaks on the issues driving them to the polls

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Jamilah Lewis | @jamilahlewis

Carbondale community members said the biggest political issues driving them to the polls are police brutality, racism, COVID-19 and the economy.

Kiana Stalling, a resident of Carbondale and Home Healthcare worker, went to the civic center today with her 18-year-old son so both of them could exercise their right to vote.

Stalling said her biggest issue with the nation is police brutality and having someone in office who cares about the American people.

“I have yet to run into police officers that are like that, my son hasn’t either, but it is an issue and it does exist,” Stalling said. “So I want police to be ok with everybody, not just our people but they need to act like they got some sense with everybody.”

Stalling said racism can’t be fixed, but discrimination against certain groups of people needs to be worked on.

“There can be groups and things put into place to keep people from being treated unfairly just solely based on the fact that you don’t like them,” Staling said.

The color of people’s skin, their sexuality and what they identify as shouldn’t determine how you treat them, Stalling said.

Stalling isn’t the only one who feels racism is a big issue. SIU senior Meranda McCubbins who voted for Vice President Joe

Biden has seen racial inequality in the community firsthand at her job as a server at Chilies.

“I’ve actually seen one of my server friends she African American, people have actually refused to have service from her just simply because she is African American,” McCubbins said.

McCubbins said she wants to see a change racially with all the protest going on and voting will help get change for things like that to come about.

Other people are more worried about economic issues that have been a big topic during this election. SIU students George Zaper and Jacob Pennell do not agree with the fair tax.

“I believe that if I make a dollar whether I’m in that- I assume I’ll be in that lower tax bracket compared to the millionaires and billionaires,” Zaper said. “I think that If I make a dollar and they take a nickel from me that someone just because they make more money they shouldn’t get more of their money taken away.”

Pennell agreed with Zaper giving the example saying if someone makes $400,000 versus $40,000 the rate at which they should be taxed should not be different.

Both Zaper and Pennell believe in improving police training.

Pennell doesn’t agree with the view of defunding the police but said they should receive more funding.

“I agree with more funding just because if you can teach them

the skills of a social worker that could cut back on having both of them go,” Pennell said. “I think that they need to be trained a lot and a lot carefully and maybe that way we can hopefully cut down on all this stuff you see in the news about that.”

Both Pennell and Zaper said they hope there won’t be a lot of damage done after the election and both want to see America become better whether that’s with President Trump or Vice President Biden.

Ralph Abalo works for SIH and is from the nation of Togo in West Africa. This is his second time voting and said that he did his homework on the candidate before he came to vote.

“If there was someone on the ballot today says student loan forgiveness, that’s what I would vote for,” Abalo said. “That wasn’t there so there’s COVID-19, there’s a lot of politics- how we’re supposed to treat each other in the country, how we’re supposed to respect each other, how we handle major issues like COVID-19, national security, and a lot of things so I did my homework very well before I came to vote.”

Abalo said it’s important to just try to work with whoever is elected no matter who it is.

Staff reporter Jamilah Lewis can be reached at jlewis@dailyegyptian. com or on Twitter @jamilahlewis.

Voters share what presidential election means to them

Oreoluwa Ojewuyi | @odojewuyi

The general consensus from voters participating in the 2020 election is “everything is at stake.”

Whoever is elected president will be responsible for handling the crisis currently affecting the American people including COVID-19, months of protest against police brutality and the visible effects of environmental deterioration.

Leo Wilson jr,. a local musician from Carbondale, said this election means everything, especially in a new era of the civil rights movement.

“It means everything that we’ve been fighting for the last 50 or 60 years. We might start chipping away at the block now,” Wilson said. “We will keep on, we’ll just keep on, there won’t be a bad reaction. We are going to be alright but we have to keep on moving towards the goal.”

Jaylen Manneel works at Caritas Family Solutions in Carterville, a private agency through DCFS. Manneel was inspired by her

grandmother to head to the polls and cast her vote.

“My grandma is the one who made me want to vote. She was alive during those times where she didn’t have the right to vote so I’m going to call her in the car and say ‘Hey I voted,’” Mannel said.

“This is going to be good for her because she’s a woman and she’s a Black woman so she’s lived to see her granddaughter be able to vote.”

Brooke Supancic, a first time voter and student at SIU, said her political views have created tension in her family.

“I’m voting against what my family votes for. My vote goes against what I grew up with. Being here in Carbondale has exposed me to alot and I feel more educated,” Supancic said.

“I get to vote for Biden who is the right candidate and I just can’t imagine another four years with Trump,” Supcancic said.

Faith Golz, a soccer player at St. Edward’s University in Austin Texas, said she hopes this election will allow the space and platform for younger voters to express their political priorities and needs.

“This is an opportunity to have my voice heard on matters I

think the American government should be prioritizing like climate change, racial equity and a number of different human rights issues,” Golz said.

Some voters expressed concern for the aftermath of the election while others showed indifference towards the potential outcomes of the election.

Nashawn Turner, a student employee at SIUC, said he hopes the elected presidential candidate will influence change and demonstrate real leadership.

“I think it will be indifferent either way, I still have to do things for myself in my life. No president is going to directly impact that, but I think for me it’s getting that kind of unprofessionalism out of office,” Turner said. “[Trump] incited a lot of violence hopefully whoever wins tonight or tomorrow we will see better leaders.”

Reporter Oreoluwa Ojewuyi can be reached at oojewuyi@ dailyegyptian.com or on twitter @odojewuyi.

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Men’s basketball schedule set, J.D Muila out 6-8 weeks

Ryan Scott | @RyanscottDE

The Saluki men’s basketball team will start their season on Nov. 25 at the Louisville multi-team event. The first of three games will be against the Louisville Cardinals and will be a true test for the Saluki men.

The Salukis will face off against

Prairie View A&M on Nov. 27 and Winthrop on Nov. 29.

J.D. Muila, a transfer from Indian Hills College in Iowa, tore the meniscus in his left knee, dealing a blow to the Salukis.

Muila will miss 6-8 weeks with a hopeful return in mid-December.

A 6 ft 8 center, Muila, is going into

his junior season and averaged 5.9 points and 6.7 rebounds in his two JUCO seasons.

Coming into the season Muila was the 24th ranked JUCO transfer.

Sports reporter Ryan Scott can be reached at rscott@dailyegyptian.com or on twitter @RyanscottDE.

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Saluki senior Jeremy Chinn reacts on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019, during the Saluki’s 7-21 loss against the North Dakota State Bison.

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Saluki alumni named NFL defensive rookie of the month

Ryan Scott | @RyanscottDE

Jeremy Chinn, a rookie out of SIU, has won NFL defensive rookie of the month in October.

Chinn was taken 64th overall in the second round of the 2020 draft. He has already gotten 32 solo tackles through his first seven games. Chinn also got his first career interception in week six against the Chicago Bears.

As of Oct. 29, Chinn has started all seven games for the Panthers.

He also has gotten four pass defenses and one stuff.

Chinn is already the second Missouri

Valley rookie to win rookie of the month this season as James Robinson, a running back out of Illinois State, won offensive rookie of the month in September.

In his time at SIU, Chinn got 185 solo tackles, 13 interceptions and six forced fumbles.

In his sophomore year, he made the MVC All-Sophomore team.

Chinn made All-MVFC First Team in his junior and senior season and in 2019 was a consensus All-American.

Sports reporter Ryan Scott can be reached at rscott@dailyegyptian.com or on twitter @RyanscottDE.

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Salukis steal the wheel with field goal win over SEMO TĀmar Mosby | @mosbytamar

A field goal was the decider in SIU Football’s Oct. 30 season opener against the Southeast Missouri State University Redhawks.

Nico Gualdoni, SIU senior kicker, came into the game to kick at the 27-yard line with two seconds left on the fourth quarter clock. The kick was completed and declared good by the referees: this kick gave SIU the final 20-17 advantage over SEMO in the matchup.

Time expired and the Salukis stormed the field grabbing the coveted wooden wheel that, a year prior, was held by the opposing team.

“That’s what it’s all about, seeing the smile on their faces, the excitement. The game is a big game regardless, but in this era of coming together and everything that was on the line, knowing that we have one game, we don’t have a game next week, as a head coach, I’m just thankful that everyone got to share in that excitement and I’m proud of them,” Saluki head coach Nick Hill said.

The 88th meeting of the teams, otherwise known as the “War For The Wheel,” was hosted at a socially distanced Saluki Stadium.

The last head-to-head battle between SIU and SEMO resulted in a 44-26 Saluki loss at Southeast’s Houck Stadium.

“We knew it was going to be a game we had to earn, that’s what it was,” Hill said.

This matchup will be Southern’s only game in 2020, the remainder of their season has been pushed to the Spring of 2021 due to COVID-19. “[We’re] extremely thankful and grateful for the opportunity to play and take the field. I feel like both programs felt that,” Hill said. “I’m just proud of our guys and their focus, resilience, these guys have been resilient and there have been some ups and downs of just getting to this point,” Hill said.

The Salukis gained possession of the ball for the first time with just over 14 minutes on the first quarter clock. Shortly after, an interception was thrown by SIU senior quarterback Karé Lyles giving the ball back to SEMO. After a slow start from both teams, Redhawk redshirt sophomore Geno Hess rushed for 61 yards to the SIU twoyard line with just under five minutes left to play in the first quarter.

Hess carried twice more for SEMO earning the first touchdown of the game. The PAT put the Redhawks ahead 7-0.

After ending the first quarter scoreless, Southern got onto the board with a 23-yard field goal from Gualdoni. Prior to the kick, the Salukis remained at the SEMO six-yard line with two incomplete passes.

The score remained unchanged until the end of the first half.

At the half, both teams had one interception, with the Redhawks and Salukis having completed three and seven passes respectively. Both teams finished the game with two interceptions.

SEMO led the first half in rushing yards 184 to SIU’s 81, while Southern led in passing yards 76 to Southeast Missouri’s 24.

At the end of the game, the Redhawks tallied 281 total rushing yards to SIU’s 260. The Salukis totaled 152 passing yards to SEMO’s 53.

Lyles said he thought SIU’s passing game helped to open up lanes for running backs like sophomores Javon WIlliams Jr. and Romeir Elliott.

Both teams struggled to score for a large majority of the third quarter, with neither reaching the end zone nor kicking a field goal for the first 10 minutes of play.

The Salukis reached the end zone for the first time of the night with just under five minutes left to play in the third quarter on a 40-yard rush from Williams Jr. A field goal from Gualdoni would give Southern a 10-7 lead

SIU kicker, Nico Gualdoni, kicks a field goal for the extra point attempt. Gualdoni went 2 for 2 in field goals including the game winning 27-yard field goal during the Salukis’ 2017 win over the Redhawks on Friday, Oct. 30, 2020 at Saluki Stadium in Carbondale, Ill. Jared Treece | @bisalo

SIU running back Javon Williams Jr., left, leaps into the air to bump fellow teammate Romeir Elliott after Williams 40-yard touchdown run in the Salukis’ 20-17 win over the Redhawks on Friday, Oct. 30, 2020 at over SEMO. Saluki stadium in Carbondale, Ill. Jared Treece | @bisalo The Redhawks responded on their next possession, scoring their second touchdown of the night after six plays, on a 21yard pass to junior wide receiver Johnny King.

The touchdown from King, followed by a PAT from redshirt senior Kendrick Tiller, allowed SEMO to regain the lead at 14-10 with just over two minutes left to play in the third quarter.

After one scoreless possession from both teams to start the fourth quarter, Southern made it back into the end zone for another touchdown, this time from junior wide receiver Avante Cox. The 17-yard pass from Lyles to Cox was completed after four plays and following a PAT from Gualdoni gave SIU a three-point lead at 17-14.

Unable to score against the Saluki defense with 4:16 on the clock, SEMO completed a 32-yard field goal to tie the game 17-17.

“I feel like the difference in the game was just controlling the line of scrimmage in the second half,” Hill said. “I can’t say

enough about Coach Petrino and his defensive staff for what they were able to do tonight to get us that win,” Hill said.

The 27-yard field goal from Gualdoni in the final seconds of the game would secure the win for Southern at 20-17.

Hill said he was happy with the team’s performance and the win, despite some aspects of their play needing to be cleaned up.

Saluki Football will take the field again at Saluki Stadium on Feb. 20 against the South Dakota State University Jackrabbits.

A kick-off time has yet to be announced.

Lyles said the game gave the team an opportunity to see where they are as a program and work on different aspects of their game during the long break.

Editor Tāmar Mosby can be reached at tmosby@dailyegyptian. com or on Twitter at @mosbytamar.

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