2024 Presidential Election live updates: Voters wait in line to cast their ballots in final stretch

Ballots sent to some polling locations in St. Clair County, Alabama for Tuesday’s election were missing a state amendment and a local amendment, local probate judge Andrew Weathington said at a press conference on Tuesday.

Weathington said that the first round of corrected ballots had been ordered from Birmingham and estimated that they would arrive just before 2 p.m.

“I’m as frustrated as anybody, and I understand that we have to take off work and all that stuff to go vote. And I apologize. I don’t know what else to say other than we’re very, very sorry,” Weathington said.

The local circuit court judge ordered polling locations across the country to stay open for two additional hours this evening, until 9 p.m. to accommodate the error. Weathington said ballots that had already been cast would still be counted.

There are just over 95,000 residents in St. Clair County, according to the 2023 U.S. Census.

Officials warned residents to continue to expect long lines at polling locations. Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen said in an email that his office is aware of the delays and stressed that his office is not involved in inspecting and printing the ballots.

South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn tells CNN that he spoke with President Biden on Monday to reminisce about their years working together and discuss the possibility of Harris succeeding him in the Oval Office.

“I talked to him a little bit about the bookends of his career,” Clyburn said. “To be eight years as vice president for the first African-American president to be elected, and to have the temerity and the guts to name a woman of color to succeed him is a tremendous bookend to his career.”

Clyburn says Biden, who served as vice president under Barack Obama, will have a “tremendous” legacy.

The FBI did not identify the states in question, but Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said earlier Tuesday that the state’s election process had snuffed out some bomb threats that he said came from Russia.

Officials in Fulton County, Georgia, said they received “multiple calls” and the threats forced a brief closure of two polling places.

The bomb threats were among multiple disturbances that U.S. officials are tracking.

But Cait Conley, a senior adviser to the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told reporters on a call Tuesday there were no national-level security incidents that were threatening to disrupt the election on a wide scale.

Officials continue to warn of what they say is an unprecedented level of foreign influence and disinformation that they expect will persist beyond Election Day.

First-time voter Jasmine Perez, 26, voted at the Las Vegas Raiders’ stadium and cast her ballot for Trump.

Her reason: She sees him in alignment with her spiritual values.

“What really attracted me to Donald Trump is I’m a Christian and he really aligns with a lot of my values as a Christian in America, and I like that he openly promotes Christianity in America,” Perez said.

Perez says she still feels some anxiety about the election.

Voting alongside her was Diego Zubek, 27, who voted for Trump in 2016 and didn’t vote in 2020 because he figured Trump would win easily. He voted for Trump again this year.

“I wasn’t going to let that happen again, wasn’t going to let the steal happen again,” Zubek said.

Many Americans will urge voters to stay in line and wait to vote today. Or will they say stay on line?

The slight variation — on vs. in — is a regional difference. The vast majority of Americans say “stay in line,” while those from the broader New York area often say “stay on line.”

“For much of the last several decades … on line has been viewed as peculiar to New York City (and the Hudson Valley),” according to Merriam-Webster.

The difference is clearest on the Republican ticket.

Trump, a native New Yorker, urged Republicans on Tuesday to, “Stay on Line. Do not let them move you. STAY ON LINE AND VOTE!” The presidential candidate has also used “in line.”

His running mate, Sen. JD Vance, a Republican who was born in Ohio, pressed people to, “Get in line, stay in line, and VOTE.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long been rumored to be weighing the sacking of Gallant, the defense minister and his political rival. The two have clashed over Netanyahu’s handling of the multi-front war in Gaza and Lebanon.

Netanyahu fired Gallant once before in March 2023, months before Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel that sparked the current conflict. Biden administration officials expressed concern to Netanyahu over his decision at the time.

The move then was spurred by Gallant’s criticism of the Netanyahu government’s contentious plan to overhaul the judiciary. Netanyahu reversed the decision weeks later.

The White House on Tuesday had no immediate reaction to Netanyahu’s move to oust Gallant once again.

U.S. Capitol Police say the man was stopped Tuesday during a security screening at the Capitol Visitor Center. Authorities say he smelled of fuel and was carrying the flare gun and torch.

Officials have canceled public tours of the Capitol for the remainder of the day.

Police say they are still investigating.

The arrest comes as authorities are on heightened alert for security issues around the nation’s capital and have increased patrols in areas downtown and near the White House around Election Day. Nearly four years ago, a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

They take college football very seriously in Clemson, South Carolina.

But no, they did not take away Tigers coach Dabo Swinney’s right to vote just because his team lost to Louisville last week.

Let’s explain: Dabo Swinney’s given first name is William. Dabo Swinney went to vote on Tuesday. The state of South Carolina said William Swinney had already voted.

“I’m like, ‘Dang, they done voted me out of the state. Lost a game. … They done shipped me off,’” Swinney said.

Here was the issue: Dabo’s oldest son, also named William, voted last week.

They counted William Jr. as William Sr. Hence, the confusion.

Dabo Swinney got to submit a paper ballot and there will be a hearing on Friday to clear it up.

“It was quite an experience this morning,” the coach said. “Me and Will, our two votes will count on Friday.”

If exercising your civic duty isn’t satisfying enough — or leaves you hungry — several businesses are offering freebies and discounts, including on rides to and from the polls.

• Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is offering a free glazed doughnut at some of its locations
• IKEA, the Swedish furniture maker, is giving out free frozen yogurt with this coupon
• The ride-hailing companies Lyft and Uber are offering discounts to people who need help getting to the polls
• Rides on Lime bikes and scooters are free for people heading to and from polling places
• Several Johnny Rockets locations are offering free milkshakes for customers today

Only a slice of America knew Tony Hinchcliffe before he took the stage at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in late October.

But what the comic said that night — namely calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” — not only made him known nationwide but also thrust him into the core of presidential politics.

While the Trump campaign attempted to distance itself from the joke, the Republican candidate never apologized, allowing Harris to take full advantage. Democrats cite that joke, and its aftermath, as the turning point in their effort to win over late-deciding voters.

Harris pressed this advantage on Monday, using precious time in her final day on the campaign trail to rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a city with a large Puerto Rican community, and to drive over an hour to Reading to visit a Puerto Rican restaurant.

Hinchcliffe, in the immediate aftermath of the joke, accused Democrats of having “no sense of humor” and wrote that he “made fun of everyone.” He hasn’t tweeted since.

If Trump loses and Hinchcliffe’s joke is a turning point, his appearance could go down as the most influential comedy set of all time.

The agreement struck with the International Association of Machinists on the eve of Election Day includes a 38% wage increase for workers over four years, and ratification and productivity bonuses.

Boeing refused to meet strikers’ demand to restore a company pension plan that was frozen nearly a decade ago.

“I want to congratulate Boeing and the IAM for reaching an agreement that secures historic wage increases and benefits for these workers,” Harris said in a statement. “This agreement represents a positive step for Boeing’s future as a leader in the aerospace industry. As I always say: collective bargaining works.”

There’s one way to make a long line at a polling place seem like it’s moving a bit faster: Play music.

In four battleground states — Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania — the non-partisan group Joy to the Polls has DJs and performers out and about, helping voters pass the time.

In Arizona this morning, voters at one location stood in line (and, yes, a few tapped their feet) to the sounds of Queen, Arrested Development, Freddie Jackson and more.

Part of the group’s mantra: “You bring the vote, we bring the music!”

Asked about the measure, which would keep the state’s six-week restriction in place, he avoided answering by simply saying he’d done “a great job bringing it back to the states.”

The second time, he snapped at a reporter, saying: “You should stop talking about it.”

Trump had previously indicated he would back the measure, but then changed his mind, saying he would vote against it.

The abortion measure would prevent lawmakers from passing any law that penalizes, prohibits, delays or restricts abortion until fetal viability, which doctors say is sometime after 21 weeks. If it’s rejected, the state’s current abortion law would stand.

Election Day voting unfolded largely smoothly across the nation Tuesday but with scattered reports of extreme weather, ballot printing errors and technical problems causing delays.

Most of the hiccups occurring by mid-day were “largely expected routine and planned-for events,” said Cait Conley, senior adviser to the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in a press briefing. She said the agency was not currently tracking any national, significant incidents impacting election security.

Helping voting run relatively smoothly on Election Day was the fact that tens of millions of Americans had already cast their ballots. Those included record numbers of voters in Georgia, North Carolina and other battleground states that could decide the winner.

▶ Read more about how Election Day is going so far

In the small county seat of Butler, Pennsylvania, voter turnout was brisk at city center precincts, just a few miles from where Trump survived an assassination attempt on July 13.

Voters and an elections official said the process was going smoothly.

Several voters were about evenly split between Trump and Harris, even as surrounding neighborhoods and countryside were overwhelmingly marked with Trump signs and flags, some depicting a photo of him raising his fist in the moments after the shooting.

Elizabeth Nanni said she voted for Harris, saying the candidate is “infinitely smarter “ than her opponent, though she voted Republican in some down-ballot races.

Like others, she said Butler still feels the trauma of July 13.

“We’re not used to having people shot and killed in Butler,” she said. “Hopefully that will be the first and last time anything like that happens here.”

Louis Fell, who voted for Trump, said he didn’t think the shooting changed anyone’s decision about whom to vote for, but it affected the community.

“I feel more connected to the whole thing. We’re not just a small town in the middle of nowhere,” he said.

A provisional ballot is used to ensure every registered voter can cast a ballot in an election.

The unique ballot is cast when there are questions about a voter’s registration status — whether they don’t have photo identification in a state that requires it, or, in some cases, if the voter made an error on their mail-in ballot.

The Help America Vote Act of 2002 guarantees access to a provisional ballot.

According to MIT’s Election Lab, how exactly provisional ballots are handled varies from each state, but they are segregated from traditionally cast ballots on Election Day so each ballot’s status can be determined.

According to the Election Administration and Voting Survey compiled by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, roughly 700,000 provisional ballots were cast in federal elections in 2022, and around 550,000 were counted.

Hamilton County, in upstate New York’s Adirondack Mountains, has the smallest population of any county in the Empire State. It had about 3,400 voters in the 2020 presidential election and 64% voted for Trump.

This gave Indian Lake Central School social studies teacher Eric McCauliffe an idea.

“I was interested to see how in tune with policies the students were and if their votes would be reflective of Hamilton County,” McCauliffe said.

So, he set up a mock election that took place in school on Tuesday. No names were listed, just policies. Seniors were enlisted to research the policies in their government class to help organize the mock election.

The results are in.

In Indian Lake, 64% of the kids picked Trump — perfectly matching how the adults there voted four years ago.

The man went to vote in the town of Fowler near the Canadian border at about 6:30 a.m., New York State Police said in a news release.

The man, who had previously been convicted of a felony, was told that he was ineligible to vote because he had not re-registered after being released from prison.

The man became irate and began threatening to return with a gun or to burn the place down, police said.

The man fled but was later picked up by state police and brought to the station for questioning. Charges against him were pending.

In the two-and-a-half minute clip, set to most of “Bodyguard,” a cut from her 2024 country album “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé channels the blonde bombshell — red one-piece swimsuit and all — before concluding with a simple message, written in white text: “Happy Beylloween,” followed by “Vote.”

At a rally in Pittsburgh Monday night, Donald Trump spoke dismissively about Beyoncé’s appearance at a Kamala Harris rally in Houston last month, drawing boos for the megastar from his supporters.

“Beyoncé would come in. Everyone’s expecting a couple of songs. There were no songs. There was no happiness,” Trump said.

She did not perform — unlike in 2016 when she performed at a presidential campaign rally for Hillary Clinton in Cleveland — but she endorsed Harris and gave a moving speech.

“I’m not here as a celebrity, I’m not here as a politician. I’m here as a mother,” Beyoncé said. “A mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live in, a world where we have the freedom to control our bodies, a world where we’re not divided.”

The Harris campaign has taken on Beyonce’s track “Freedom,” a cut from her landmark 2016 album “Lemonade,” as its anthem.

“If it’s a fair election, I’d be the first one to acknowledge,” the results, Trump said, though what meets that definition wasn’t clear.

Speaking to reporters after voting in Florida, Trump said that he had no plans to tell his supporters to refrain from violence should he lose.

“I don’t have to tell them,” because they “are not violent people,” he said.

Trump planned to visit a nearby campaign office to thank those working on his behalf.

“I’m hearing in Pennsylvania they won’t have an answer ‘til two or three days from now,” Trump said. “I think it’s an absolute outrage if that’s the case.”

Trump says he will have “a very special group of people” at Mar-a-Lago and a few thousand people at a nearby convention center to watch the election results.

“It looks like we have a very substantial lead,” he said without elaborating on whether he has a plan on when to declare victory.

Tara Palmeri, a reporter with Puck, had been assigned by Amazon to cover Donald Trump’s election night event at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. But she was denied a credential to get in, according to Trump campaign manager Chris LaCivita, who described her as a “gossip columnist” in a post on the social platform X.

Instead, Amazon will fly Palmeri to its California studio, where she will be on-set with the former NBC News anchor Brian Williams, who is hosting the streaming service’s first-ever election night live coverage. The change was first reported by the Status news website.

Amazon said Palmeri will be replaced at Trump’s Florida headquarters by New York Post reporter Lydia Moynihan.

In Palm Beach, Florida, Marilyn Falotico said she believes Trump is the president who will deliver best for the Sunshine State and the rest of the country.

“Without him, things in Florida might not happen,” Falotico said.

Falotico says the country she’s living in “is not the country I was born into, so I’m voting for America.”

“It seems that the conservatives are voting very powerfully,” Trump told reporters in Palm Beach, Florida.

“It looks like Republicans have shown up in force,” he said.

Asked if he had any regrets about his campaign, Trump responded, “I can’t think of any.”

A Pennsylvania state judge on Tuesday ordered polls to remain open for two extra hours in Cambria County, which sought the extension after a software malfunction affected ballot-scanning machines.

County officials said the problem caused some voter confusion, with some leaving without casting a ballot, as well as long lines at some locations. They stressed, along with state officials, that no one was being turned away from the polls and all ballots would be counted.

As Americans head to the polls, investors cheered the latest evidence of a strong U.S. economy, boosting the stock market.

The S&P 500 was up 1% in midday trading, rising closer to its record set last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 334 points, or 0.8%, as of 11:35 a.m. Eastern time, while the Nasdaq composite was 1.3% higher.

Investors are closely tracking the election. If the results are unclear or contested, it could disrupt the market. Investors tend to prefer a party split between the White House and the houses of Congress because massive swings in policy — especially things that would balloon the deficit — can slow the economy.

The economy is a top issue for voters, many of whom have had to contend with rising grocery prices and a housing and rental market that is growing more unaffordable. But voters are split on which candidate would be better for the economy.

Harris has focused her economic message on housing affordability, boosting the child tax credit for families with newborns, and raising taxes on the affluent.

Trump wants to cut taxes for corporations, raise tariffs and end income taxes on social security benefits. Economists have warned his proposal to raise tariffs could worsen inflation and drive up prices.

Trump has cast his ballot in Palm Beach, Florida and says his latest presidential campaign was the best yet.

“I ran a great campaign. I think it was maybe the best of the three. We did great in the first one. We did much better in the second one but something happened. I would say this is the best campaign we’ve run,” he said, standing next to his wife, Melania Trump.

He has no public appearances on his schedule and his press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, won’t be holding her typical daily briefing on Tuesday.

Biden made his final campaign appearance on Saturday when he delivered a speech to laborers on behalf of the Harris-Walz campaign in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

He hasn’t taken a question from reporters since gaggling at an event in Baltimore last Tuesday. Later that same day, Biden created an uproar in remarks to Latino activists when he responded to racist comments at a Trump rally made by the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who referred to the U.S. island territory of Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

Biden, according to a transcript prepared by the official White House stenographers, told the Latino group on a Tuesday evening video call, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

The transcript released by the White House press office, however, rendered the quote with an apostrophe, reading “supporter’s” rather than “supporters,” which aides said pointed to Biden criticizing Hinchcliffe, not the millions of Americans who are supporting Trump for president.

From student creations in Michigan to a Colts-themed design in Indianapolis to the iconic “I’m a Georgia voter” peach, voters around the country are collecting status stickers.

▶ Read more on how the “I Voted” stickers have branched out beyond the standard flag design.

In Arizona, puppies hit the polls on Election Day.

Joe Casados of the Arizona Humane Society went to the polls with Daphne, a 10-week-old puppy available for adoption.

“We know that voting can be a stressful time for a lot of people. We also want to celebrate everyone doing their civic duty and coming out to vote,” Casados said. “So, we thought what better way than bringing some puppies out to the polls to give someone a little reward and a little serotonin boost just for coming out today and voting.”

Casados said voters thanked them for bringing the puppies.

“I think everyone is very excited whenever they get a chance to see a puppy,” Casados said.

The newspaper said early Tuesday it was unclear whether it will be able to include the feature on its website during election night coverage since it relies on computer systems maintained by engineers at the company, including some who went on strike early Monday.

The Needle, as its name suggests, is a graphic that uses voting results and other calculations to point toward the likelihood of either presidential candidate winning.

Introduced in 2016, it became nightmare-inducing for supporters of Democrat Hillary Clinton, who the Times determined had an 85% chance of winning the election. Readers watched as the Needle moved from forecasting a “likely” Clinton victory at the beginning of election night, to “toss-up” by 10 p.m. Eastern to “leaning Trump” at midnight. Trump won the election.

The Times said that “we will only publish a live version of the Needle if we are confident” that the computer systems it relies upon for data are stable.

Even if the Needle is sidelined, the Times said journalists plan to run its statistical model periodically and give readers a sense in its live blog where the race stands as the night goes on.

Some 650 members of the Times’ Tech Guild are on strike.

Voter fatigue is a real thing for some at the polls today.

Ky Thompson, who voted in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, said she’s happy that the election cycle is ending.

“It was a good fight between both parties and hopefully we don’t get any whining like we’ve been getting the last couple years, depending on who wins or who loses in this,” Thompson said. “I’m just over it today. I’m over this whole election like I’m sure the rest of America is.”

She did not reveal her presidential choice.

“If you’re taking care of yourself the way you should be taking care of yourself, not too much of what goes on should affect you too, too, too, too much,” she said, smiling.

“The first office I ever ran for was freshman class representative at Howard University,” Harris recalled in her Tuesday interview with the Big Tigger Morning Show on V-103 in Atlanta. “And to go back tonight to Howard University, my beloved alma mater, and be able to hopefully … recognize this day for what it is — really it’s full circle for me.”

Howard, located in the nation’s capital, is part of a network of historically Black colleges and universities founded before 1964 for African American students.

If she wins, Harris will be the first HBCU alum to serve as president.

Geoff Grace has a tremor, and filling out the little circles on his Wisconsin ballot was a difficult task.

But he got it done — with some help from his mother — and got a round of applause from poll workers for getting through the process when his ballot was deposited.

“They were very nice and accommodating for that,” Grace said. “And I got my sticker. I’m showing that off today.”

Grace voted for Harris. “I strongly believe a woman should have a chance at being president,” he said.

Although it serves a similar purpose, AP VoteCast is not an exit poll.

Traditional exit polls, including the one conducted by a consortium of news networks in the United States, rely largely on in-person interviews with voters conducted outside of select polling places after they’ve voted, supplemented with a phone survey to reach mail-in voters. Before AP VoteCast, the AP worked with other major news organizations to conduct Election Day exit polls.

AP VoteCast was created in part to reflect significant changes over the years in how people vote, from a world where most people vote by showing up at the polls on Election Day to one where a growing number vote before Election Day.

AP VoteCast captures the views of voters — whether they vote in person on Election Day or weeks ahead of time — by beginning to interview registered voters several days before Election Day. Those interviews conclude as polls close in each state. Interviews are offered in English, and Spanish as needed.

This approach allowed AP VoteCast to reliably survey more than 130,000 registered voters in all 50 states during the 2020 presidential election and comprehensively explain how Democrat Joe Biden won the presidential election.

▶ Read more about AP VoteCast and how it works

She talked about immigration and bridging the political divide on The Big K Morning Show with Larry Richert on NewsRadio KDKA in Pittsburgh.

With the popular Big Tigger Morning Show on V-103 in Atlanta, she discussed how her policies would impact Black men and the historical implications of the election.

On the Big Tigger show, Harris also homed in on a theme she’s pushed hard in her final days on the campaign trail: She wants to win to help regular Americans while Trump wants back in the White House to strike out at enemies.

“He will walk into the Oval Office if he were elected with his enemies list,” Harris said. “He is full of vengeance, he’s full of grievance. It’s all about himself. When I walk in on January 20th, I’ll walk in with my to-do list on behalf of the American people.”

Her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, also recorded several radio interviews airing Tuesday with stations in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, according to the campaign.

When you hear the term bellwether, you might think about states in the presidential election that always vote with the White House winner. The true meaning of a bellwether is an indicator of a trend. For that, you need to think about counties.

Across the seven main battleground states in 2024, there are 10 counties — out of more than 500 — that voted for Trump in 2016 and then flipped to Biden in 2020. Most are small and home to relatively few voters, with Arizona’s Maricopa a notable exception. So it’s not likely they’ll swing an entire state all by themselves.

What these counties probably will do is provide an early indication of which candidate is performing best among the swing voters likely to decide a closely contested race. It doesn’t take much for a flip. For example, the difference in Wisconsin, during both 2016 and 2020, was only about 20,000 votes.

▶ Read more about the states that might matter the most on Election Day

St. Clair County Probate Judge Andrew Weathington said the problem was discovered Tuesday morning when packs of sealed ballots were opened at polling places and many were found to be missing the back page, which contains proposed constitutional amendments.

He said it appeared to be a printing error.

The proposed ballots were proofed before printing and were correct, he added. The Alabama Secretary of State’s Office confirmed emergency ballots are being printed.

The ACLU of Alabama has asked the St. Clair probate office to extend voting hours by the number of hours it takes to get new ballots, a spokesman for the organization said. Weathington said he is seeking legal guidance from the Alabama secretary of state and the county attorney.

Alabama voters are deciding local constitutional amendments and one statewide amendment. The statewide amendment relates to allowing a local school board to sell land, located in another Alabama county, to a developer. Voters in the county were also voting on a local amendment related to local school board governance.

Florida voters turning to a state-run website to check their voter registration status were getting an error message Tuesday morning.

A spokesperson for Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd confirmed the state’s online Voter Information Lookup tool was experiencing technical issues but did not answer questions about what was causing the problem.

“We’re working to resolve it,” spokesperson Mark Ard said. “We’re providing alternative websites and locations for voters to find their voter information, their precinct.”

Floridians can check their voter registration status and find their polling place by going to their county supervisor of elections website.

Cait Conley, senior adviser to the director of the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency, said during a briefing that “we are not currently tracking any national level, significant incidents impacting the security of our election infrastructure. We are tracking instances of extreme weather and other temporary infrastructure disruption to certain areas of the country, but these are largely expected routine and planned for events.”

Conley said CISA, the FBI and intelligence communities did anticipate that foreign actors would try to influence the election later today and in the following weeks.

It’s practically an Election Day tradition now. The news media gathers in tiny Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, a picturesque town near the Canadian border, to watch the first voters cast their ballots at midnight.

Dixville Notch started its tradition in 1960. Neil Tillotson, who owned the town’s Balsams Grand Resort Hotel, heard about midnight voting from an Associated Press reporter, his son Tom told CBS News. The elder petitioned the legislature to let the community create its own voting precinct.

Even though two other towns had midnight voting — including one that opened early for railroad workers — Dixville Notch was the only one with a hotel that made it convenient for reporters and photographers to file, with phone lines and a dark room. The first polling place was inside Tillotson’s resort.

Per the tradition, AP reporter Nick Perry was on hand when a half-dozen voters cast their ballots at the polling place, which has moved to the living room of the Tillotson home. He documented the scene, and made sure not to miss that the polling place featured “ a couple of very friendly dogs.”

Flooding has knocked out power to one Missouri polling site, made another one hard to reach and closed dozens of roads in the state.

More than 7 inches of rain has fallen in some areas over the past two days. And the National Weather Service issued flood and flash flood warnings and watches across a large swath of the state, extending from its southwest corner to the St. Louis area in the east.

The flooding left some drivers stranded in their vehicles and disrupted bus service on multiple routes in the St. Louis area.

In Jefferson County, just to the south of St. Louis, the sheriff’s office warned in a news release that one polling site is not accessible by many people because of flooding.

In St. Louis County, the weather flooded electrical equipment in one suburb, knocking out power to a church that is serving as a polling place, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Poll workers there are now running the elections using a generator.

Despite the problems, many voters lined up in the rain to cast their ballots.

There are no NFL or NBA games today. Plenty of fans will be going to stadiums anyway.

At least 17 NFL and NBA facilities are either polling locations or ballot drop-off stations. Some teams even offered voters personalized “I Voted” stickers with team logos.

Tuesdays aren’t game days in the NFL.

The NBA, for the third consecutive year, isn’t playing any games on Election Day to support “civic engagement,” the league said. And players from all 30 NBA teams wore warm-up shirts with a simple message Monday night: “Vote,” they said.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman issued the order late Monday after lawyers for Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss — two former Georgia election workers who were awarded a $148 million defamation judgment — reported to the court that Rudy Giuliani cleared out his Manhattan apartment weeks before the Oct. 29 deadline to surrender his possessions.

Lawyers for Freeman and Moss say Giuliani has not yet surrendered any of the items that he was ordered to turn over — including his $5 million New York apartment, a 1980 Mercedes once owned by movie star Lauren Bacall and a variety of other belongings including sports memorabilia.

Giuliani spokesperson Ted Goodman said Tuesday that Giuliani has made his property available and accused Freeman and Moss’ lawyers of deception and attempting to “further bully and intimidate Mayor Giuliani until he is rendered penniless and homeless.”

Giuliani was ordered to pay the former election workers for falsely accusing them of ballot fraud during the 2020 presidential election, as part of Donald Trump’s unfounded claims that the election was stolen from him.