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It's very unlikely that we'll be talking Wednesday morning about third-party spoilers — even if it is a close race.
The fact is that the presence of Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson on the ballot in all 50 states and Green Party nominee Jill Stein in most states doesn't seem to be altering the race in any demonstrable way. The combination of the two of them, in fact, seems to be affecting Clinton and Trump almost equally. (About the only logical way in which a third-party candidate could affect the election outcome would be if Trump somehow lost Utah to either third-party candidate Evan McMullin, or to Clinton because McMullin took enough of the Republican vote. But that, again, would require Utah's six electoral votes to be pivotal.)
Aaron Blake, Washington Post
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Reuters/Ipsos polled more than 10,000 Americans who have already cast their ballots. The poll, which will be updated as additional responses are tallied throughout the day, found the following:- 72 percent agree "the American economy is rigged to advantage the rich and powerful."
- 75 percent agree that "America needs a strong leader to take the country back from the rich and powerful."
- 68 percent agree that "traditional parties and politicians don’t care about people like me."
- 76 percent believe "the mainstream media is more interested in making money than telling the truth."
- 57 percent feel that "more and more, I don't identify with what America has become."
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Fabio Alvarado, 91, originally from El Salvador, who was sworn in as a U.S. citizen on election day, arrives with his wife Marta, 80, to vote at the LA County Registrar's office in Norwalk, California. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
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The Mexican peso rallied to its strongest level in two months. It's now trading at 18.66 pesos on the dollar. The peso is viewed as a financial proxy for the election because of Donald Trump statements on Mexican immigration and his promises to build a wall.
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Health stocks in 2016, as election results near:
•S&P health index: -5.3%
•NYSE Arca Pharma index: -12.5%
•Nasdaq biotech index: -22.7%4:32 PM - 08 Nov 2016- Reply
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Confusion continues to reign about states’ identification requirements. Complaints have surfaced particularly in Texas, where voters have reported erroneous signs and other issues. In some cases, voters have been given correct information – for example, if they have ID, they are required to show it – that they did not realize was correct. Connecticut voters also have registered complaints about voter ID – the law there is that you can be asked to produce identification, but it’s not required for you to cast your vote.
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Preparations for Hillary Clinton's election night rally at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. REUTERS/Mark Kauzlarich
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JUST IN: Election officials in three Pennsylvania counties say they believe no ballots have been wrongly counted as a result of machine malfunctions -
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Election officials in three Pennsylvania counties believe no ballots had been wrongly counted as a result of computer malfunctions, despite reports that touch-screen voting machines in the state were switching votes.
Officials in Cumberland, Perry and Butler Counties in Pennsylvania told Reuters that they had no reason to believe the mistakes were affecting voters from one party more than the other, and that voters were catching the mistakes on "review screens" before their ballots were cast.
(Reporting by David Ingram and Julia Harte)
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the former rival of Democrat Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, cast his ballot in Burlington, Vermont. -
Inside the Javits Center where Hillary Clinton will join her supporters tonight. It opens to the public at 6 pm.
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Election Day on Wall Street and beyondU.S. stocks closed in the green today for the second straight session, helped by investors' bets on Clinton winning the election.After starting the session at a slight loss, the Dow Jones ended up 0.4 percent at 18,332.43 points and the S&P 500 gained 0.38 percent to 2,139.53 points. The Nasdaq added 0.53 percent to 5,193.49 points.Several investors said the gains, albeit small, were helped by a VoteCastr report that showed Clinton with an early lead among voters in Florida, a must-win state for Trump.Investors' faith in a Clinton win also helped the dollar rising against the safe-haven Japanese yen and Swiss franc, while the Mexican peso and Canadian dollar also gained on bets on a Trump defeat.And here's why the Japanese currency is considered a safe haven.
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JUST IN: North Carolina advocacy group files suit against state Board of Elections, asks state judge to keep polling sites in Durham county
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MORE: Civil rights groups report higher levels of voter intimidation complaints than in prior elections
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Poll worker Marvin Alston laughs with a voter at the Delmae 2 precinct located at the Greek Orthodox Church during the U.S. presidential election in Florence, South Carolina. REUTERS/Randall Hill
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Democrats, civil rights groups disagree over levels of voter complaints
WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Democratic Party officials said they were not seeing concerted, systemic voter suppression efforts as Americans continued to cast ballots in the tightly contested U.S. presidential election pitting Republican Donald Trump against Democrat Hillary Clinton.
But civil rights groups reported higher levels of voter intimidation complaints than in prior presidential elections, based on more than 20,000 calls they had received from around the country to a voter complaint hotline as of Tuesday afternoon.
(Reporting by Julia Harte; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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A tree is awash in autumn color as the moon rises over the White House on election night in Washington. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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The press corp covering Donald Trump took a moment last night to gather together for a group photo -- with a Donald Trump cardboard cutout in the back row. Reuters correspondent Steve Holland was kind enough to share the photo on our live blog.
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On Friday, most if not all of our early voting locations had lines of voters when their scheduled closing time passed. As has been our practice for many, many years those early voting locations continued processing voters until the lines were gone.
Dan Kulin, Clark County Office of Public CommunicationsA Nevada judge rejected Donald Trump's request for records from a Las Vegas polling place that the campaign said had allowed people to vote after a deadline last week. -
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The residents of Los Angeles' Skid Row, the city's predominantly homeless area, turn out to vote in the U.S. election. -
When compared with the 2012 election, it appears that a greater proportion of voters this year are casting their ballots for the first time.And there also appears to be a higher percentage of late deciders. Thirteen percent said they made their decision in the final week of the campaign, when the FBI announced that it was looking at more emails connected to its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server. FBI chief James Comey ultimately ended his review without recommending criminal charges.(Reporting by Chris Kahn)
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On Election Night, Trump still sending out fundraising emails. Says he put $100 million of his own money into race. FEC says $66 million.5:51 PM - 08 Nov 2016
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Trump campaign responds to Nevada court ruling:
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They built a cash bar at Trump election night party-- and his supporters are going to pay for it. https://t.co/X18u0HieSN
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First polls close as Americans pick between Clinton and Trump
- Polls began to close in the long and bitter battle for the White House with last-minute opinion polls giving Clinton the edge over Trump in the final hours of the race.
- Polls in Kentucky and Indiana, which don't observe daylight savings, were the first to close, and a flood of vital battleground states such as Virginia, North Carolina and Ohio - where polls are due to close in the next 90 minutes - will provide initial clues of the possible winner.
- Clinton led Trump, 44 percent to 39 percent, in the last Reuters/Ipsos national tracking poll before Election Day. A Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation poll gave her a 90 percent chance of defeating Trump and becoming the first woman elected U.S. president.
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Scenes from across the country as votes are cast and counted. -
JUST IN: Clinton campaign manager supports extended voting hours in key North Carolina county
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Some 15 percent of Americans who cast a ballot today said it was their first time voting in a presidential election, according to an early reading from the Reuters/Ipsos national Election Day poll, up from 9 percent of voters who said so in 2012.The poll of nearly 35,000 people also showed that 13 percent of voters had waited until the final week of the presidential race to make up their mind between the candidates, who include Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, up from 9 percent who said so in 2012.The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced in late October that it was looking at more emails connected to its investigation of Clinton’s use of a personal email server while secretary of state. FBI Director James Comey later said that the new trove of emails did not affect his earlier decision to not bring a criminal case against Clinton.(Reporting by Chris Kahn, editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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Voters cast their ballots at Marie's Golden Cue in Chicago, and more unusual polling locations: reut.rs REUTERS/Jim Young
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A Trump supporter waiting at the Hilton Hotel. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
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The line to get into Clinton's event at the Javits Center in Manhattan is stretching around the block and is slow-going, from what we hear. Photos courtesy of Elisabeth Brubaker, who received tickets tonight through the Clinton campaign.
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In Colorado, a computer glitch caused the statewide system that processes same-day voter registration to crash for about 30 minutes today, Lynn Bartels, spokeswoman for the Secretary of State’s office, said on Twitter.MEDIA: Voter registration system went down 29 minutes, 2:47 p.m. to 3:16 p.m. It is back up now. We are investigating. #copolitics5:29 PM - 08 Nov 2016
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The disruption also temporarily prevented clerks from processing mail-in ballots that require signature verification, so some voters were issued provisional ballots, Bartels said.At a polling site in Adams County, north of Denver, people in line to vote were told to wait until the system was back up, which caused frustration among some voters.“It’s a joke,” said 45-year-old Craig Gray as he sat in the back of his pick-up truck. “They said it could be at least an hour.”Gray, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 10 years, said he planned to vote for the Libertarian Party presidential ticket.(Reporting by Keith Coffman) -
Former President George W. Bush does not cast vote for president
ReutersFormer Republican President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, did not cast a vote for U.S. president on Tuesday but did vote for Republicans in down-ballot races, a spokesman for Bush said. -
Twitter reports massive Election Day trafficIt truly is the Twitter election: More than 25 million tweets about the U.S. presidential election were sent out worldwide during the first 18 hours of Election Day, according to Twitter. That's an average of roughly 1.389 million tweets per hour, between midnight and 6 pm ET.A Twitter spokesman confirmed that today is on track to vastly outpace Election Day 2012 in terms of traffic when roughly 31 million tweets were posted for the entire day.
Putin says Russia will follow up fast after Ukraine call with Biden
MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would send ideas to Washington within a week to follow up his talks with U.S. President Joe Biden on the Ukraine crisis.
