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Arizona Voters Reportedly Turned Away Due to Machine Problems (Live Updates)

Arizona Voters Reportedly Turned Away Due to Machine Problems (Live Updates)

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As voters make their final decision between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump — and across hundreds of congressional and state races and voting issues — Forbes will be rounding up the biggest stories from the best news sources here until it's all over.

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Arizona voters have turned away A county in swing state Arizona, home to the Navajo Nation and the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, is seeing hours-long waits at the polls and some voters were turned away Tuesday due to problems with faulty voting machines, CNN reported.

Rep. shares misleading electoral mapRep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., shared a graphic Tuesday showing Trump as the projected winner of the Electoral College. Alethea, a misinformation tracking company, told the Washington Post that it was designed to “preemptively cast doubt on the election results if former President Trump loses.”

Man arrested in front of US CapitolA man stopped during security at the Capitol Visitors Center “smelled of fuel” and was in possession of a flashlight, a flare gun and two containers that smelled of gasoline, U.S. Capitol Police said Tuesday. The visitor center will be closed for the remainder of the day while an investigation is conducted.

Musk joins Trump at Mar-A-LagoBillionaire Trump supporter Elon Musk will spend at least part of election night with the candidate at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, and is part of a small group of people watching the results live with the former president The New York Times reported.

Polls in Cambia, PA are open until 10 p.mPolls in Pennsylvania's rural Cambria county – which could be a key swing state county for Trump – will remain open until 10 p.m. on Tuesday to make up for hours lost when a morning software glitch hampered voting. Trump won 68.1% of the vote in Cambria County in 2020.

Russia is linked to bomb threatsThe bomb threats that led to the temporary closure of two polling stations in a majority-black voting district in the swing state of Georgia were “Russian in origin,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said, adding: “They appear to be up to mischief, and they are. “ “I don’t want us to have a smooth, fair and accurate election.”

Trump votes in FloridaTrump cast his vote late Tuesday morning with his wife Melania in Palm Beach, Florida. He said it was an “absolute outrage” that votes might not be counted until several days after the election, but said he was “very confident” about his chances of winning.

Russia paid pro-Trump influencersA pro-Trump social media influencer (who is on

Betting markets favor Trump, but…Poll-based prediction sites FiveThirtyEight and Silver Bulletin give Harris the (small) edge. Here's the breakdown.

Harris, Trump Split Dixville NotchHarris and former President Donald Trump each secured three votes in the small town of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, ending its long tradition of being the first in the country to announce its results – although the town's results have been in the past Every national result was anything but predictable.

Trump and Vance end on a somber noteFormer President Donald Trump insulted former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at his campaign's final rally in Michigan that stretched into early Tuesday, while his running mate Kamala Harris insulted Sen. JD Vance at an earlier rally Monday night referred to as “garbage”.

Important background

Tuesday marks the culmination of one of the most chaotic election cycles in history: A former president convicted of felonies and facing dozens of other criminal charges is challenging a vice president who was at the top of the ticket after President Joe Biden's 81st primary -year-old president dropped out of the race after a pressure campaign within his own party. Harris would be the first woman elected president and Trump would be the oldest. Polls show the race deadlocked nationally and in the seven swing states that will decide the election, with Trump leading President Joe Biden in polls before his exit and Harris gaining an early lead after entering the contest fought for.

What you should pay attention to

Republicans are poised to take back the Senate, even if the House is more of a back-and-forth affair. In the Senate, where Democrats hold a razor-thin majority of 51 seats to 49, 23 seats held by Democrats are up for re-election, compared to just 11 seats held by Republicans. None of these seats are rated as tosses by the Cook Political Report. In the House of Representatives, where Republicans have a 221-214 majority, Republicans have a 51 percent chance of retaining control, while Democrats would win control 49 times out of 100, according to Five Thirty Eight.

When do the polls close?

The first polls close in eastern Kentucky and most of Indiana at 6 p.m. However, the real signs of who might win won't emerge until later tonight when the seven swing states begin releasing counts, with Georgia and North Carolina likely to be the first to report results.

Further reading

What to Expect on Election Night: An Hour-by-Hour Guide to Trump vs. Trump Harris (Forbes)

Election Day 2024: Here are Harris' clearest paths to victory (live updates) (Forbes)

Election Day 2024: Here are Trump's clearest paths to victory (live updates) (Forbes)

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