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Nov. 3, 2020, 1:06 p.m. ET
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Polling places have popped up in some interesting locations around the country: a basketball arena, a theater, a sunny sidewalk and even a cafe.
Nov. 3, 2020, 1:01 p.m. ET
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Trump supporters heading to the president’s rally in Kenosha, Wis., on Monday night.Credit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
Ask a political strategist about certain kinds of voters, and receive an explanation of who they are likely to support as a group, depending on their age, education level, religion, race or ethnicity. Real voters can sometimes scramble the conventional wisdom.
Plenty of outliers could be found at a single polling place in Kenosha, Wis., a swing county in a swing state, on the morning of Election Day.
Outside the Kenosha Public Museum, voters streamed out into the sunny morning every few minutes. Nearly every person was willing to stop and talk about who they had decided to support, a moment of catharsis after a long-anticipated vote.
“Donald Trump, of course,” said Derek Madsen, 31, who works in retail. “I just love Trump. He’s good for the gays.”
Mr. Madsen acknowledged that his admiration for Mr. Trump left him a bit isolated among his friends and as a gay man. Two close friendships had sputtered out entirely because of it. He blamed the media.
“I’ve been called a white supremacist, a racist, a fascist,” he said, adding that he gets his news mostly from YouTube and podcasts, and believed Mr. Trump had made the world safer and freer.
Stephen Mathis, a 56-year-old business executive from Kenosha, said his disdain for the Democratic Party began around 2004, when he was living in Illinois and feeling exasperated by taxes and regulation. A vote for Mr. Trump on Tuesday was a nod to his pro-business philosophy, he said, and the conservative values he had grown up with in his own large, close-knit Black family.
Mr. Mathis has 14 siblings. Only two of them are Trump voters.
“I’m truly the black sheep,” he said, bursting into laughter. “My sisters are always wanting to talk about politics. I never bring it up.”
Kelly Ingram, 35, said that as a health-care worker in a hospital, she has seen the coronavirus pandemic up close. Her own political preferences were all over the place. She voted for Barack Obama twice, and Hillary Clinton in 2016. This time, she voted for Mr. Trump.
It was an unusual flip. Ms. Ingram pointed to a unique set of circumstances to explain: the unrest and rioting in Kenosha in August that had left the city’s downtown damaged. Mr. Trump seemed more likely to take care of the business community and get things back to normal. “I have friends who own businesses,” she said. “I was thinking of them.”
Nov. 3, 2020, 12:56 p.m. ET
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SHALER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Whoever wins the election, Rich Nuss remains skeptical that either President Trump or former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will be able to tame the coronavirus.
“The pandemic is to me is not an issue,” he said. “A president, I don’t care who it is, can’t just wake up some morning and say, ‘You know what, no more pandemic.’”
Mr. Nuss voted at the Shaler Area Elementary School, where the parking lot was busy. Ten or 12 people, most in masks, waited in line outside the front doors, and workers sprayed down the door handles between voters. The Allegheny County suburbs around Pittsburgh are a battleground, and Shaler Township went for Trump — narrowly — in 2016.
More than 430 people have already died of the virus in Allegheny County, and the number of new cases has been ticking up again, as it has across the state.
Mr. Nuss, a 71-year-old retired engineer with an “I Voted” sign on his plaid wool jacket, had a strong presidential preference: neither candidate.
“I’m not happy with the choices our country has given us,” he said. “I don’t think either one is a savior who is going to salvage this mess we’re in. But I think one guy is going to do a worse job. So I didn’t vote for him.”
Mr. Nuss said he expected turmoil after the polls closed, with riots and accusations of cheating. As for the next four years, he said, who knows? “I know we have better,” he said. “There’s better people everywhere.”
Joseph R. Biden Jr. visited his childhood home and the home of a family friend in Scranton, Pa.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times
As voters headed to the polls on Election Day, Joseph R. Biden Jr. was still campaigning in Pennsylvania, a battleground state that some analysts say could play a key role in the out come of the election.
His opponent, President Trump, spoke to Republicans at a party office in Arlington, Va., just miles away from the White House.
Mr. Trump leaving the White House to visit his campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va.Credit...Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
Mr. Biden began the day on a somber note, visiting the graves of his first wife, son and daughter in Wilmington, Del., according to a pool report. He then departed for Pennsylvania, where he spoke to supporters outside a union hall in Scranton, the city where he was born, and visited his childhood home. He then visited Philadelphia, where he is hoping for significant in-person voter turnout.
This evening, Mr. Biden is scheduled to return to Delaware, his home state, where he will address the nation.
Mr. Trump traveled to the Republican National Committee annex office in Arlington, which also houses his campaign headquarters, around midday. He plans to then return to the White House, with no further public events scheduled. In the evening, he was expected to gather with supporters at the White House.
Nov. 3, 2020, 12:42 p.m. ET
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Michigan officials warned voters of robocalls on Tuesday morning, saying that calls were going to residents in Flint, a city with a large Black population, in an effort to confuse voters and lower turnout.
Michigan’s secretary of state, Jocelyn Benson, said that calls were warning people in Flint of long lines at polling places and suggesting that voters wait until Wednesday to cast ballots. Polls in Michigan close at 8 p.m. on Tuesday.
“I want to ensure everyone who plans to vote in person understands they must do so — or be in line to do so — by 8 p.m. today,” Ms. Benson said in a statement.
She added that lines in the Flint area where “minimal and moving quickly.”
The robocall complaint came a day after Michigan’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, warned of text messages being sent to voters in Dearborn that warned of “ballot sensor” malfunctions in the polling places there.
The message, which is being investigated by the state Attorney General’s office, told voters that if they wanted their preferred presidential candidate vote to count, then they really had to mark the ballot for the other candidate.
“Don’t fall for it,” Ms. Nessel said on Twitter. “It’s a trick.”
Nov. 3, 2020, 12:22 p.m. ET
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President Trump voted early days ago, but the first lady, Melania Trump, chose to vote in person at a community center in Palm Beach, Fla., and was seen not wearing a mask.CreditCredit...Marco Bello/Reuters
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Security was heavy at the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center in Palm Beach, Fla., where just one person went inside barefaced, despite a mask mandate in this county: First Lady Melania Trump.
The first lady, who contracted Covid-19 last month, smiled and waved at reporters and said she was feeling “great.” She was surrounded by Secret Service agents, aides and the county’s supervisor of elections, Wendy Sartory Link, who were all wearing masks.
Her husband voted early days ago, but Mrs. Trump said she chose to vote in person at a community center about two miles north of Mar-a-Lago. There are nearly three times as many Republicans than Democrats in the two precincts assigned to vote here.
“It’s Election Day, so I wanted to come here to vote today for the election,” Mrs. Trump told a small group of journalists who had been cleared by the Secret Service to see her.
Voters had been cleared out, but a few of her supporters were outside holding signs, including Christy Moore, whose sign proclaimed: “We ❤️ Melania.”
“He was anointed by God,” Ms. Moore said of the president.
Ms. Sartory acknowledged that there was a mask mandate in Palm Beach County but said if voters are “not able” to wear one, they are not prevented from casting their ballots.
By 7:30 a.m., 12,000 people had already voted in the county. At first, Ms. Sartory said she was alarmed that the number was so high within 30 minutes of polls opening and thought that the tracking must be off. Surely a vendor must have made a mistake, she said. It turned out to be correct.
“Everything was perfect,” she said of Mrs. Trump’s five-minute visit to the polling station. “She was the only voter in the room at the time.”
Nov. 3, 2020, 12:11 p.m. ET
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New York Times photographers are finding voters and poll workers across the country teeming with excitement and a sense of purpose.
Daniel “Bud” Brooks, 90, working at polling site in Freedom, N.H., said he had been registering new voters for 56 years.
And Daniel Billingslea, 27, encountered outside a polling place where he was canvassing with his mother in Detroit, said “I’m hoping that America will continue to progress while still keeping the things that make America great.”
Nov. 3, 2020, 11:58 a.m. ET
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jamel Murray was swarmed by volunteers applauding and offering bags of chips, doughnuts, turkey sandwiches and drinks as soon as he walked out of the Bette Rae Thomas Recreation Center in Charlotte.
Mr. Murray, 19, had just voted for the first time.
He had been trying for weeks to cast a ballot early, but it was tough, he said, because of the long hours he was putting in at his job at the airport. Election Day was his last opportunity, so he made sure he got to his polling place, and got there early.
He said social justice was the prevailing issue for him, and that he voted for Joseph R. Biden Jr. for president and the Democratic incumbent, Roy Cooper, for governor.
“Mostly, I felt it’s time for change,” he said, noting his frustration with President Trump and the fallout of a devastating year.
Only a trickle of voters passed through the community center near Charlotte’s city center on Tuesday morning, perhaps because so many people in the state have voted early.
Across the state, more than 4.5 million people — just over 62 percent of registered voters — had already voted by mail or through early in-person voting before Election Day, according to the North Carolina State Board of Elections. About 37 percent of those pre-Election Day voters were registered Democrats, according to the state data; nearly 32 percent were Republicans; and roughly 30 percent were not affiliated with any party.
Nov. 3, 2020, 11:47 a.m. ET
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PhiladelphiaBy Emily Rhyne and Kassie Bracken
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Here’s a view — on the ground and from the air — of polling places in Philadelphia. Last night, Senator Kamala Harris told those assembled for a drive-in rally outside the city’s Citizens Bank Park, “Now is the time to vote and vote like our lives depend on it because they do.”
Nov. 3, 2020, 11:45 a.m. ET
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The Pulse nightclub in Orlando has been turned into a memorial site.Credit...Eve Edelheit for The New York Times
ORLANDO, Fla. — Only a short walk away from where a mass shooting occurred during the last presidential race, the strongest of emotions are affecting this one.
Stephanie Szuhay, 37, who used to go to the Pulse nightclub before 49 people were gunned down there in 2016, cried behind her mask as she walked out of the Beardall Center after casting her vote early Tuesday morning, because the stakes seemed so high.
“I don’t see how people say it’s politics, when it’s basic human rights,” she said.
The Pulse mass shooting created a “butterfly effect” that rippled nationwide in 2016. It prompted Hillary Clinton to cancel a trip to campaign with President Obama in Wisconsin, a crucial swing state. Meanwhile, Donald J. Trump turned up his rhetoric about threats from terrorism, radical Islam and immigrants, and won Wisconsin, Florida, and the presidency.
Ms. Szuhay called Mr. Trump “the worst president we’ve ever had, absolutely, by far,” and said she no longer speaks to her family “because they’re extreme right-wing Trump supporters.”
This year, Florida is a key swing state yet again, but the perceived threats are different: a pandemic, unemployment, and the behavior of the president himself.
“I’m worried about what happens next,” said Ryan Killoran, who is about to be a father for the first time. He said his main concern was that a re-elected President Trump “would be emboldened, and I think he would be more toxic than he has been.”
Some voters felt overwhelmed by the moment.
Sophia Pensula, who turned 18 on Tuesday, woke up unsure whether she would vote. But she did, and left the polls afterward with happy tears in her eyes: “It’s my first time, my birthday, and there’s so much going on right now.”
She wouldn’t say who she chose.
Nov. 3, 2020, 11:33 a.m. ET
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People in nearly two dozen states — including closely contested battlegrounds like Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin — and the District of Columbia can still register to vote for a presidential candidate on Election Day.
Elections experts say those rules routinely lead to increased voter turnout and that they do not clearly give either major party an advantage when the ballots are counted.
Even if they have not previously registered, people may become eligible to cast ballots on Tuesday in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Utah, Vermont, Washington State, Wisconsin, Wyoming and the District of Columbia. Alaska and Rhode Island will allow same-day registrants to vote only for president and vice president.
And North Dakota does not register voters, meaning any eligible person may cast a ballot on Tuesday if they present identification.
Although parts of the Midwest and New England have allowed same-day registration since the 1970s, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, roughly a dozen states have begun to permit it in the last decade.
Nov. 3, 2020, 11:27 a.m. ET
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In Hawaii, which is running an all-mail vote for the first time, 484,000 voters had already cast their ballots, compared to 429,000 in 2016. In Texas, almost as many people voted early in person — 8.7 million — as voted in total in the last presidential election.
As of Tuesday morning, at least four states — Texas, Hawaii, Washington and Montana — had already exceeded their 2016 turnout heading into Election Day, according to data from The Associated Press and the United States Elections Project. You can see numbers from each state here.
Nov. 3, 2020, 11:19 a.m. ET
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FRISCO, Tex. — By the time the sun rose over Collin County on Election Day, 69 percent of registered voters had already cast a ballot either in-person or by mail, the highest percentage in Texas. The huge early turnout underscored the degree to which this traditionally conservative county north of Dallas has fast become a battleground for the political future of the state.
“It’s been a long time coming,” said Phillip Mahuwe, 46, after casting his ballot on Tuesday — “Democrat all the way” — at a polling place in Frisco, Tex.
Mr. Mahuwe, an IT consultant and immigrant from Zimbabwe, was not alone among voters who have come in recent years to Collin County from elsewhere, fundamentally shifting the political landscape here. A common place to be from is California. And not all are Democrats.
“I can’t stand him as a person, but he has made some decisions that have brought jobs back to America,” Melodie Kersten, 66, said of President Trump after voting for him.
Another California transplant to Frisco, Juan Aguilar, 26, said he voted for the former vice president, Joseph R. Biden Jr. — his first time casting a ballot in an election.
“It was either that, or four more years of Trump’s shenanigans,” said Mr. Aguilar, who works as an overnight stocker at a local grocery store.
Republicans have watched their advantage in the county diminish in each election cycle, though party officials said that Republican voters still outnumber Democrats in the county.
In 2016, Collin County went for Mr. Trump by a 16 point margin. But since that time, the county has added nearly 112,000 registered voters, an increase of about 20 percent. In 2018, Senator Ted Cruz defeated his Democratic challenger, Beto O’Rourke, by single digits.
The county is one of the fastest growing areas of the country, adding more than 250,000 residents in 10 years. Even recent arrivals recall rapid changes: of highways further and further out from Dallas and farmland replaced by new housing. An influx of out-of-state residents and those chased from the city by high housing prices have brought new voters to the county, as have new corporate office complexes.
“I think Republicans took it for granted that Texas would be red forever,” said Brian Livingston, a Republican City Council member in Frisco, who stood outside the polling place and greeted arriving voters on Tuesday. “Everybody in the world is moving here.”
Nov. 3, 2020, 11:16 a.m. ET
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A supporter of President Trump waiting in line to vote in St. Petersburg, Fla.Credit...Eve Edelheit for The New York Times
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Carrie Wiza, 64, wore a red scarf. Her husband, Tim Wiza, 63, wore a red Wisconsin Badger sweatshirt. They were seeking to honor their choice for president: Donald Trump.
“I’m changing into a sparkly Trump shirt when I get home,” said Ms. Wiza, a retired insurance professional. “I’m glad to see people out and excited about America and the freedoms we enjoy here.”
The Wizas voted early Tuesday in Waukesha, the largest municipality in Waukesha County, which is the largest and most populous of the so-called W.O.W. suburban counties of Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington counties that border Milwaukee.
Although known as Republican strongholds, the W.O.W. counties nevertheless are home to many educated suburban women who are being courted by both parties.
Amy, 47, who voted for Mr. Biden but did not want to give her last name because she’s a teacher in the area, calls Mr. Trump’s push for suburban women “too little, too late, in my book,” adding that Mr. Trump “demeans us and doesn’t work for a higher minimum wage or equal pay for women.”
Less than 15 minutes away, voters arrived at Waukesha’s Rotary Building in Frame Park.
Kim Talbot, 63, a K-3 teacher, voted for Trump. “We need a businessman to get us out of debt,” he said.
But Rosalinda Koch, 26, of Waukesha, voted for Mr. Biden. Health care is the top priority for Ms. Koch, who works as a cashier. If Mr. Biden is elected, she said she hopes he will protect the Affordable Care Act and address “this Covid mess.”
Nov. 3, 2020, 10:30 a.m. ET
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Poll workers preparing for voters to cast ballots in Atlanta on Tuesday.Credit...Lynsey Weatherspoon for The New York Times
ATLANTA — Following a wave of early voting in a Georgia that emerged as a presidential battleground state this fall, polls opened Tuesday morning with little sign of the disruptions that marred the June primary.
A group of eight people, anxious to cast their ballots, had lined up at Greater Bethany Baptist Church just before polls opened at 7 a.m. Located in a predominantly Black neighborhood, the church is one of 255 polling sites in Fulton County, which includes much of Atlanta, on Tuesday — an increase of about 90 sites from June’s primary.
Keith Burgess, who had arrived about 6:30 a.m., was first in line. Emerging about 15 minutes later, Mr. Burgess said he viewed his vote for former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. as a patriotic duty.
“I believe that politics needs to come back to some type of decency and honor,” he said. “I served in the military for about six years. I kind of feel like, you know, this is the biggest service that I can give today to my country.”
Even before the polls opened Tuesday, the turnout in Fulton County and much of the Atlanta metropolitan area had exceeded the entire vote in the 2016 presidential election.
The added polling locations were among changes made by officials in Fulton County to ensure that voting goes more smoothly than during the June primary, when long lines, poll worker shortages and equipment problems fueled questions about whether Georgia was prepared for the general election.
Richard Barron, director of registration and elections for Fulton County, said that for the first time his office decided to request law enforcement officials at every polling station, rather than just selected places.
“We have some concerns, and we’re just trying to be proactive and anticipate everything that could happen,” Mr. Barron said during a briefing with reporters. “It’s going to be probably comforting to the public to know that there is a peace officer at all these sites.”
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