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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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Students at Old Dominion University waited in line to vote at Larchmont Elementary School in Norfolk, Va.
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Virginia residents waited in line in the pre-dawn hours to vote at Nottoway Park in Vienna, Va.
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Poll worker Rosemary Good handed out stickers in Belmont.
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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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Mitt Romney waved to a crowd of supporters after voting in Belmont.
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Replacement voting sites were created in Queens after Sandy damaged the existing polling places.
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Alice Vu, 5, read “The Hungry Kitten,” while waiting outside a polling station on Lexington Avenue in Cambridge.
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United Auto Workers retiree Jackie Smith listened during a rally on Election Day at the UAW Region 1 technical training center in Warren, Mich.
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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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A three-picture photo combo showed Nina Bush casting her ballot on an electronic voting machine in Toledo, Ohio.
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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.
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Republican candidate Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan made an unscheduled stop at a Wendy's restaurant in Richmond Heights, Ohio.
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A boy peeked out of the voting booth in New Hampton, N.H.
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Elizabeth Warren greeted supporters at the Graham and Parks School in Cambridge.
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Senator Scott Brown encouraged pupils at the Sullivan Middle School in Lowell to encourage their parents to vote for him.
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People walked past a polling station in Washington, D.C.
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Milagros Pena high-fived Boston Police Officer Brendan Lyons after casting her ballot at Orchard Gardens in Dorchester.
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Voters waited to cast a ballot in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.
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Voters waited in line to cast their ballots in Miami.
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A street scene was reflected in the window of a gift shop near the White House in Washington, D.C.
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Voters filled out their ballots in a vehicle storage bay at Armory Garage, an auto dealership in Albany, N.Y.
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Snow surrounded the polling precinct in Terra Alta, W.Va.,
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Voters at Tremont Elementary School in Cleveland, Ohio.
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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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George Klein, Jenine Kanell, and their children lined up to vote at a Venice Beach lifeguard station in Los Angeles.
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People lined up to vote at a polling station set up for those affected by Sandy in Hoboken, N.J.
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Voting was brisk as the polls opened at a fire station on Lexington Avenue in Cambridge.




























