Marion Varney, seated, checks off voters names as residents of Hart's Location, New Hampshire, cast the first Election Day votes in the early hours of the morning. (Jim Cole, AP)
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Town officials tally votes in Harts Location, New Hampshire. (Jim Cole, AP)
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Early voters wait in line for the polls to open at Whetstone Recreation Centre in Columbus, Ohio. (Jay LaPrete, AP)
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Voters in the Brooklyn borough of New York fill the gymnasium to cast their ballots. (Richard Drew, AP)
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Don Huntrods of Van Meter, Iowa, emerges from a voting booth after casting his ballot, in Lee Township. (Steven Senne, AP)
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President Bush and first Lady Laura walk out of the Crawford fire hall after voting in Crawford, Texas. (Pablo Monsivais, AP)
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Illinois Democratic US Senate candidate Barack Obama exits the polling booth with his daughter, Malia after casting his vote at Catholic theological union polling place in Chicago.(Nam Y Huh, AP)
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Voters fill the polling booths early in the morning as they cast their ballots at Tecumseh South Elementary School in Topeka. (Chris Landsberger, AP)
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Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry, exits the polling place in Fox Chapel after voting. (Gene J Puskar, AP)
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People vote at Crieve Hall Elementary School in Nashville. (Mark Humphrey, AP)
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Voters wait in a long line to get into the Navy Seal Museum on North Hutchinson Island to vote in Fort Pierce. The regular polling place, the Radisson Resort, was heavily damaged by hurricanes Frances and Jeanne, forcing elections officials in St Lucie County to move the polling place to the museum. (Rick Silva, AP)
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Music artist Sean "P Diddy" Combs gestures as he enters a voting booth to cast his vote in his Upper East Side neighbourhood of New York. P Diddy spearheaded the campaign "Vote or Die," aimed at drawing youth and minority voters to the polls. (Gregory Bull, AP)
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First time voter Natalia Agudelo, 20, left, gets some help from attorney Pam Kearse, right, a member of the Volunteer Lawyers for Kerry-Edwards, outside a polling precinct in Hollywood. Kearse, from Boston, is one of over 3700 lawyers in Florida helping the Kerry campaign refute voter challenges. (David Adame, AP)
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Kyle Day, 4, looks around at other voters while his dad Jim Day, right, votes at a polling precinct on the premises of the Rick Case Honda dealership. (David Adame, AP)
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People wait in line to vote in Columbus, Ohio in the early morning. Lines were running about two hours at the precinct. (Laura Rauch, AP)
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Teton County election official Carol Ramthun assists Vice President Dick Cheney in casting his general election ballot at the Wilson Volunteer Fire Station in Wilson. (Bradly J Boner, AP)
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People wait in line to vote in Columbus, Ohio. Lines were running about two hours at the precinct in a steady rain by mid-morning. (Laura Rauch, AP)
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Ragan Thompson of Washington cheers as election returns are announced during an election party sponsored by the Republican National Committee at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Centre in Washington. (J Scott Applewhite, AP)
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Sean Mandrell, 18, of Orange County, Calif., front, and James Zarsadiaz, 18, of Los Angeles, cheer as election returns are announced at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington. (J. Scott Applewhite, AP)
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Several hundreds of voters wait in line to cast their ballot two hours after the polls were supposed to close on the campus of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. (David Adame, AP)
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Illinois U.S. Senator-elect Barack Obama, holding his daughter Malia, 6, and his wife Michelle, holding their daughter Sasha, 3, are covered in confetti after Obama delivered his acceptance speech in Chicago. Obama, only the fifth black U.S. Senator to be elected in history, defeated Republican Alan Keyes in the nation's first Senate race with two black major-party candidates. (M. Spencer Green, AP)
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Voters use papers to shield themselves from the rain while waiting in line to vote at Precinct 6 set up in front of the Church of Christ in Fort Mill. (The Observer, Diedra Laird, AP)
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Palm Beach Sheriff's personnel carry a ballot box from the Emergency Operations Center across the parking lot to the Supervisor of Elections office in West Palm Beach, Florida. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Scott Fisher, AP)
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger walks to a polling booth to cast his ballot at the Crestwood Recreation Center in Los Angeles. (Nick Ut, AP)
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Senator John Kerry waves over his back as he votes at the Statehouse in Boston. Voting at right is his daughter, Vanessa Kerry. (Gerald Herbert, AP)
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Supporters of John Kerry cry as projections show President George W. Bush increasing his lead in the electoral college at the Pennsylvania Democratic Party election night headquarters in Philadelphia. (Kevork Djansezian, AP)
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A concerned Teresa Teater, of Oregon City, raises her hand to her mouth as she watches the presidential race returns of President Bush and Senator John Kerry during the Democratic Party of Oregon election party in Portland, Oregon. (Rick Bowmer, AP)
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A crowd of President Bush supporters cheer in reaction to a Fox News report that the president had won Ohio at a rally at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington. (Ron Edmonds, AP)
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