US election day
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View our editor's choice of the best photos as the United States goes to the polls for its presidential election.
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A Barack Obama supporter shows her support in Times Square in New York City on November 6, 2012. (Reuters: Carlo Allegri)
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Mitt Romney supporters hold signs at the Republican election night event at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Centre on November 6, 2012, in Boston, Massachusetts. (AFP: Joe Raedle)
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Craig Romney, the son of US Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, listens to Star Spangled Banner before addressing the election night rally in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 6, 2012. (Reuters: Jim Young)
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Poll workers review voter authorisation forms and provisional ballots after the polls closed at the Covenant Presbyterian Church during the US presidential election in Charlotte, North Carolina, on November 6, 2012. (Reuters: Chris Keane)
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Voters wait in line to cast their ballot at the Columbia Heights Educational Campus on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 in Washington, DC. (AFP: Brendan Hoffman)
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Queens residents in New York, who are still without power due to Hurricane Sandy, listen to the radio for news of the US presidential election results on November 6, 2012. (Reuters: Lucas Jackson)
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The press pack awaits US president Barack Obama before his election night rally in Chicago, November 6, 2012. (Reuters: Larry Downing)
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People stand while attending Mitt Romney's election night event at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Centre on November 6, 2012, in Boston, Massachusetts. (AFP: Joe Raedle)
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A firefighter votes in a tent that is being used as a polling place in Rockaway, Queens, as New York recovers from Hurricane Sandy on November 6, 2012. (AFP: Mehdi Taamallah)
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A voter leaves the Ohio Union after voting during the US presidential election at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, on November 6, 2012. (Reuters: Matt Sullivan)
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New Jersey governor Chris Christie exits a voting booth with his daughter Bridget at the Mendham Emergency Services Building in Mendham, New Jersey, on November 6, 2012. (Reuters: Tim Larson)
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US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife Ann cast their votes in the US presidential elections in Belmont, Massachusetts, on November 6, 2012. (AFP: Emmanuel Dunand)
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A man casts his ballot inside a polling station just after midnight on November 6, 2012 in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, the very first voting to take place in the 2012 US presidential election. (AFP: Rogerio Barbosa)
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Voters stand in line to cast their ballot at Hartford City Hall during the US presidential election, in Hartford, Connecticut, on November 6, 2012. (Reuters: Michelle McLoughlin)
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A US woman fills out her paper ballot in the US general election on November 6, 2012 at Newstead Baptist Church in St. Louis, Missouri. (AFP: Whitney Curtis)
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US voters line up to cast their ballot in the Mt. Pleasant Library on November 6, 2012, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AFP: Brendan Smialowski)
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A ballot sits on a table at the Old Bethpage Grade School polling location on November 6, 2012, in Old Bethpage, New York. (AFP: Bruce Bennett)
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US president Barack Obama calls a volunteer from a campaign office in Chicago, Illinois, on election day, November 6, 2012. (Jewel Samad)
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Alhambra residents vote on election day at the Alhambra Fire Station, Los Angeles County, California. November 6, 2012. (AFP: Frederic Brown)
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Obama supporters walk around Chicago wearing Obama Romney masks holding placards asking people to vote. Nov 6, 2012. (AFP: Jim Watson)
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Members of the Army National Guard helping in the super storm Sandy clean-up along the New Jersey coastline cast absentee votes, Nov 6, 2012. (AFP: Andrew Burton)
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Residents cast their ballots at a polling venue inside the Elmwood Roller Skating Rink on November 6, 2012, in Southwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (AFP: Jessica Kourkounis)
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People prepare to cast their ballots inside polling booths just after midnight on November 6, 2012 in Dixville Notch, New hampshire, the very first voting to take place in the 2012 US presidential election. (AFP: Rogerio Barbosa)
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US vice-president Joe Biden holds hands with a poll worker as he emerges from the voting booth after casting his ballot during the US presidential election in Greenville, Delaware on November 6, 2012. (Reuters: Kevin Lamarque)
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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his wife Ann walk out of the polling station after voting in Belmont, Massachusetts November 6, 2012. (Reuters: Brian Snyder)
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View our editor's choice of the best photos as the United States goes to the polls for its presidential election.
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ABC election analyst Antony Green with the latest on the US election count.
Mitt Romney tells reporters his campaign team has put their message across and hasn't had the type of infighting reported in other campaigns.
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