
Photos: Election day

Alice Vu, 5, read “The Hungry Kitten,” while waiting outside a polling station on Lexington Avenue in Cambridge.
Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff
| November 6, 2012

President Obama sat next to a volunteer as he called other volunteers during a visit to a campaign field office in Chicago.
Jason Reed /Reuters
| November 6, 2012

Mitt Romney waved to a crowd of supporters after voting in Belmont.
David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
| November 6, 2012

Students at ODU waited in line to vote at Larchmont Elementary School in Norfolk, Va.
Amanda Lucier/The Virginian-Pilot via Associated Press
| November 6, 2012

Senator Scott Brown waved as he got into his pick-up truck after voting in Wrentham.
Gretchen Ertl/Associated Press
| November 6, 2012

Elizabeth Warren greeted supporters at the Graham and Parks School.
Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff
| November 6, 2012

Lines were long outside a polling station in Boston's Chinatown.
Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff
| November 6, 2012

Voting was brisk as the polls opened at a fire station on Lexington Avenue in Cambridge.
Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff
| November 6, 2012

A sign directed people to a polling site in a school that is also serving as a donation site for victims of Superstorm Sandy in Staten Island.
Seth Wenig/Associated Press
| November 6, 2012

Voters waited in line to cast their ballots in Miami.
Tim Chapman/The Miami Herald via Associated Press
| November 6, 2012

New York resident Marina Shechtman filled out her ballot.
Seth Wenig/Associated Press
| November 6, 2012