However, the presidential election was determined by “great legal uncertainty and a strongly polarized political environment, reinforced by aggressive campaign rhetoric”, the election observers criticized. There were “baseless allegations of systematic fraud”. Now it is crucial that every correctly cast ballot is “counted correctly”, emphasized the Polish election observer Urszula Gacek. The election was “not over” and the observers stayed in the US until the election process was over. Shortly after the polls closed, Trump accused his opponents of planning to “steal the election”. In the particularly hotly contested swing states of Pennsylvania and Michigan, the Trump camp went to court to stop the ballot count. For Wisconsin, Trump wants to recount the votes. An election winner has not yet been determined; in pre-election polls, Trump’s Democratic challenger Joe Biden was clearly ahead.