Live Blog
#USvote: The 2012 US Presidential Election
LIVE BLOG of the 2012 US Presidential election, November 6, 2012.
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WELCOME to the LIVE BLOG of the 2012 United States presidential election. -
ONGOING: DIxville Notch, New Hampshire - the first to vote in the entire United States - is tallying the results of their poll. #USvote
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#USvote Dixville vote: Obama 5, Romney 5. There are only 10 votes cast in this New Hampshire town, population 12 as of the 2012 US Census.
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#USvote CNN notes this is the first ever tie in the village's history.
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Our editor just reported she's been in line for an hour, with at least another hour to go. -
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his wife Ann finish filling out their ballots in Belmont, Mass., on Nov. 6. Photo by Brian Snyder/Reuters.
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Mitt Romney and his wife Ann finished filling out their ballots in Belmont today. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
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Picture from our Director of Public Media waiting in line to vote.
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by Rebecca Ostriker via twitter 11/6/2012 2:11:06 PM -
In line at Kennedy school in Somerville long line and cold fingers
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by Meghan E. Irons via twitter 11/6/2012 2:15:41 PM -
MISSOULA, Mont. – It is 7 a.m. and the polls have just opened in Montana. Voters in this state of about a million people will finally be casting ballots in the most expensive U.S. Senate race in state history. The contest pits incumbent Democrat Jon Tester against the state’s sole U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg in a pricey battle that has subjected voters to more than 100,000 ad airings and thousands of mailings from the campaigns and outside groups. The outside money in this campaign has been so significant it prompted an entire Frontline investigation into what's been going on out here. -
Harbinger of a long night? "As is tradition, the small New Hampshire hamlet of Dixville Notch held its vote right at midnight Tuesday, and its residents rendered a split decision, with President Obama and Mitt Romney receiving five votes apiece," reports our Morning Line political blog.
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Voters cast their ballots Tuesday morning at Legend Elementary School in Newark, Ohio. Photo by Matt Sullivan/Reuters.
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#romney supporters in Belmont say the sign is to welcome their candidate home. #mavote @yourtownbelmont pic.twitter.com/INdX9xBGby Evan Allen via twitter 11/6/2012 2:18:56 PM -
Globe reporter Bella English is at precinct 3 in Milton. "There have been steady lines since before polls opened at 7," she said. "Election warden Jane Tufts says that by 9 am today, the precinct has almost as many voters as it had all day for the September primaries. The process took me 30 minutes."
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#mavote Outside Franklin High School pic.twitter.com/XSk9efx9by Brian Ballou via twitter 11/6/2012 2:24:32 PM -
For 1st time today, no line at Brighton YMCA precinct. Plenty of people also exercising right to exercise here #mavoteby Noah Bierman via twitter 11/6/2012 2:27:46 PM -
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368 people have voted at Central Square, Cambridge polling place, 410 Mass. Ave. Poll worker says that's a lot. #mavoteby Rebecca Ostriker via twitter 11/6/2012 2:29:11 PM
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For 1st time today, no line at Brighton YMCA precinct. Plenty of people also exercising right to exercise here #mavoteby Noah Bierman via twitter 11/6/2012 2:29:23 PM
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Libertarian Party candidate Gov. Gary Johnson and the Green Party's Jill Stein debate live from RT's Washington, D.C., studio on Nov. 5.
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In Somerville, volunteer is passing out info on question 4 & trying to cheer frozen voters. Says at least the construction crews are gone.by Maria Sacchetti via twitter 11/6/2012 2:30:15 PM -
This should be 6th time Mitt Romney was able to go to his Belmont precinct and vote for himself. First time his name's been at the very top.by Matt Viser via twitter 11/6/2012 2:30:25 PM -
Man in a gray suit told crowd to expect to wait 1.5 hours in line. #mavote "it's worth it,"he said. But you'll wait.by Maria Sacchetti via twitter 11/6/2012 2:30:27 PM
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Third-party candidates Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party), Jill Stein (Green Party), Virgil Goode (Constitution Party), and Rocky Anderson (Justice Party) also participated in this debate moderated by former CNN host Larry King last month.
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I know it sounds cliché, but it feels awesome to have your ballot go through the scanner. #mavote #TellNYTby cmaUES via twitter 11/6/2012 2:54:27 PM -
by Billy Baker via twitter 11/6/2012 2:55:25 PM -
Our Director of Public Media is going on hour number 3 in Columbia, SC.
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Everybody vote! I did #election #maVoteby Erin Ailworth via twitter 11/6/2012 3:06:07 PM -
Small sample size obviously, but number of Obama supporters in Melrose said they split ticket and voted for Brown #mavoteby Peter Schworm via twitter 11/6/2012 3:06:55 PM -
One voter in Melrose has Elizabeth Warren sticker on her baby stroller as she heads to vote #maVoteby Peter Schworm via twitter 11/6/2012 3:06:59 PM
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by Julie Pace via twitter 11/6/2012 3:08:03 PM -
by Eric Moskowitz via twitter 11/6/2012 3:09:33 PM -
by Eric Moskowitz via twitter 11/6/2012 3:10:02 PM -
President Obama awaits results in Chicago.
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Been interviewing people leaving the polls in Manchester, MA, and it's 50/50 on everything. #mavoteby Billy Baker via twitter 11/6/2012 3:29:39 PM
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by JeremyCFox via twitter 11/6/2012 3:29:43 PM -
LEXINGTON, Ky. - From Renee Shaw, host of Connections, a series exploring Kentucky’s diverse minority communities, and host of election night coverage - A discussion with three Kentuckians about the presidential race: a Democrat, a Republican, and one independent who feels jilted by both choices. They discuss messages, policies, advertising, the impact of the debates, and parse out worse-case scenarios of a statistical tie in the electoral college vote. http://www.ket.org/cgi-bin/cheetah/watch_video.pl?nola=kcwrs+000809&altdir=&template= -
On the other side of Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports on Election Day photo ID confusion, court orders and robo-emails. -
CARY, N.C. -- Election officials report large crowds when polls opened and a steady turnout after that. It's predicted 69 percent of the state's 6.6 million registered voters will cast ballots. Forty-one percent of those registered voters have already taken advantage of early voting. -
The Guardian (UK) presents Election 2012 in graphic novel form.
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NEW YORK CITY -- How are New Yorkers who don’t speak English as a first language learning about relocated poll stations? It wasn’t until about 6 p.m. on Monday that the NYC Board of Elections finalized where residents in hurricane-stricken areas of South Brooklyn would vote today.
An improvised poll location in a Coney Island school is right across the street from a massive housing development with five high-rises, some with as many as 30 stories. However, two Russian women from there said many Russian-speaking voters did not know where to vote.
Raiza Kletkina said through a translator that she would alert her neighbors to the new polling place but said it might be hard for many of them to get there. “We have no elevators, no heat,” she said.
