Scenes from election day across the US
Voters prepared to cast their ballots inside polling booths just after midnight in Dixville Notch, N.H. Voters in Dixville Notch traditionally cast the first ballots on Election Day.
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| November 6, 2012
Students at Old Dominion University waited in line to vote at Larchmont Elementary School in Norfolk, Va.
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| November 6, 2012
Virginia residents waited in line in the pre-dawn hours to vote at Nottoway Park in Vienna, Va.
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| November 6, 2012
Poll worker Rosemary Good handed out stickers in Belmont.
David L. Ryan/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.
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| November 6, 2012
Mitt Romney waved to a crowd of supporters after voting in Belmont.
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| November 6, 2012
Replacement voting sites were created in Queens after Sandy damaged the existing polling places.
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| November 6, 2012
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
United Auto Workers retiree Jackie Smith listened during a rally on Election Day at the UAW Region 1 technical training center in Warren, Mich.
Paul Sancya/Associated Press
| November 6, 2012
Voters waited in long lines at the Condon School in South Boston. Lines were prevalent at many polling places in Massachusetts.
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| November 6, 2012
A three-picture photo combo showed Nina Bush casting her ballot on an electronic voting machine in Toledo, Ohio.
Jeff Kowalsky/EPA
| November 6, 2012
Voter Jesse James of the Rockaways, N.Y., filled out a voter form at a polling site located in a tent due to the area's continued recovery from Hurricane Sandy.
Justin Lane/EPA
| November 6, 2012
Republican candidate Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan made an unscheduled stop at a Wendy's restaurant in Richmond Heights, Ohio.
Charles Dharapak/Associated Press
| November 6, 2012
A boy peeked out of the voting booth in New Hampton, N.H.
Jessica Rinaldi /Reuters
| November 6, 2012
Elizabeth Warren greeted supporters at the Graham and Parks School in Cambridge.
Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff
| November 6, 2012
Senator Scott Brown encouraged pupils at the Sullivan Middle School in Lowell to encourage their parents to vote for him.
David L. Ryan / Globe Staff
| November 6, 2012
People walked past a polling station in Washington, D.C.
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| November 6, 2012
Milagros Pena high-fived Boston Police Officer Brendan Lyons after casting her ballot at Orchard Gardens in Dorchester.
Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff
| November 6, 2012
Voters waited to cast a ballot in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.
John Minchillo/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
A street scene was reflected in the window of a gift shop near the White House in Washington, D.C.
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| November 6, 2012
Voters filled out their ballots in a vehicle storage bay at Armory Garage, an auto dealership in Albany, N.Y.
Mike Groll/Associated Press
| November 6, 2012
Snow surrounded the polling precinct in Terra Alta, W.Va.,
Dave Martin/Associated Press
| November 6, 2012
Voters at Tremont Elementary School in Cleveland, Ohio.
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| November 6, 2012
Members of the Army National Guard filled out absentee voter ballots for the presidential election while temporarily stationed along the New Jersey coastline to help with the recovery from Sandy.
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| November 6, 2012
George Klein, Jenine Kanell, and their children lined up to vote at a Venice Beach lifeguard station in Los Angeles.
Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
| November 6, 2012
People lined up to vote at a polling station set up for those affected by Sandy in Hoboken, N.J.
Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
| 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