Presidential election results 2020

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Georgia is having a “successful” election day so far.

“Our November action plan was to encourage absentee voting,” Raffensperger said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.

 Raffensperger said that two counties had operation issues that were initiated at the “precinct level.”  

"They have addressed those and resolved those,” he added.   

The issues were in Spalding County, located in west central Georgia south of Atlanta, and Morgan County, in north central Georgia east of Atlanta. 

Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s Voting System Implementation Manager, described the issues in Spalding and Morgan as “data set issues” in both cases.   

“There were 18 polling locations that were affected in Spalding and seven in Morgan. Four of the ones in Morgan have been hard reset and are going fine. The other eight in Spalding did a hard reset and are fine. But let’s make one thing very clear, they were using ballot activation codes. Voting did not stop, it might have slowed down for a second to figure out what to do. This office will work closely with the Spalding elections director,” Sterling told said at the press conference.   

“Morgan jumped on it very quickly and used the initial backups that this state had outlined for them to do which was the ballot activation codes. They said there were no real backups in Morgan at all and in Spalding we saw some," Sterling said.  

“We have three teams out there doing the hard resets. It takes about a minute each stop it. It’s still a big county.”  

Raffensperger told CNN that Georgia has not had any malware or cybersecurity issues in the state so far, and also told CNN that they have not heard of any legal challenges to any absentee mail ballots as of this afternoon.  

Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s presidential campaign projected confidence on a public Election Day briefing call, saying “it is clear we are winning.” 

Campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon said that they are “confident” about their path to victory and “clear-eyed” on what will come in when. The campaign is staying consistent in its message that it believes the winner will be known tonight. 

They emphasized multiple times during the call that they do not need to win Florida and Pennsylvania to get to 270 electoral votes, providing several different pathways to victory. 

If the campaign does not win Pennsylvania, they see a path to victory that includes winning Michigan and Wisconsin along with either Florida, North Carolina or Arizona.

Without either Pennsylvania or Florida, their path to victory includes winning Michigan, Wisconsin and either Arizona or North Carolina. That being said, Dillon said they believe Pennsylvania is a place where they are "far ahead." 

Dillon touted that the campaign sent 32 million texts and knocked on 1.3 million doors in the final Get Out the Vote weekend of the election. 

In terms of the election process itself, the campaign’s Bob Bauer reported "minimal issues" with voting across the country saying that matters are “proceeding really well.” 

State election data shows at least 996,970 Iowans cast their ballot early, either in person or by mail. That’s about 48% of registered voters and 63% of those that voted in the 2016 election.

Almost 41,000 people across the state voted on Monday.

Registered Democrats made up 45% of the early voters. Registered Republicans made up 33% of early voters and 21% were unaffiliated. 

Polls close at 10 p.m. ET (9 p.m. CT.) Absentee ballots can be returned via mail until Nov. 9 as long as they’re postmarked by Nov. 2.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris spoke to reporters as she arrived at Detroit's airport this afternoon. 

"Here we are, back in Detroit — it's Election Day, I'm so happy to be back here," Harris said.

The candidate spoke briefly to press and took questions before heading off to local stops. 

"I want to remind everybody obviously that the polls close at 8 o'clock tonight," she said. "The path to the White House and the path to determining who will be the next President of the United States without question runs right through Michigan."

Sen. Harris took a question on what her message would be to those who are on edge about potential unrest tonight.

"Have faith in the American people. I do strongly believe that we - whoever we vote for - will defend the integrity of our democracy and the peaceful transfer of power. And that there are certain lines that no matter who you vote for, they won't cross," she said.

North Carolina’s election results will be delayed by at least 45 minutes after the board of elections extended voting at four locations that were having problems this morning.

The State Board of Elections voted on Tuesday to extend voting at four precincts that opened late on Election Day.

The NCSBE voted 3-2 to extend a polling place in Sampson County, near Fayetteville, for 45 minutes after the precinct experienced printer issues.  

The extension means that results statewide will be delayed by at least 45 minutes tonight, holding results until all polls have closed. 

The board also voted 3-2 to keep a second Sampson County precinct open for 24 minutes, a Cabarrus County precinct open for 17 minutes, and a Guilford County precinct open for 34 minutes.

Any voter that shows up at theses precincts after 7:30 p.m. ET would vote a provisional ballot.

CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux reports:

In response to earlier reports of robocalls targeting Flint voters with misinformation, Sheldon Neeley, Mayor of Flint, Michigan, issued a statement saying: 

Earlier, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel flagged via Twitter that a misinformation robocall was targeting Flint voters, telling them that if the line is too long they should leave and come back tomorrow.

She said this was categorically false because voters must be in line by 8 p.m. tonight to have their votes count.

Vice President Mike Pence is spending his Election Day flooding the airwaves doing 21 TV and radio interviews at local media outlets in battleground states.

Pence has done local interviews with at least seven local media radio and TV stations to make a last-minute pitch to voters before polls close tonight. 

The radio and TV stations he's interviewed with are in battleground states including Florida, Wisconsin, Ohio, North Carolina, Michigan and Nevada.

A White House official said he’s otherwise spending the day with his family.

In New Hampshire’s second largest polling place in Londonderry High School’s gym, Covid-19 safety was a priority in setting up the location according to officials. 

With approximately 15,000 voters expected today — more than 5,000 ballots were cast absentee — state-provided acrylic glass dividers are set up along every step of the check in process, including at the tables where new voters can register.

All of the poll workers are wearing masks, and a cleaning crew is sanitizing booths after voters leave.

There is even an outdoor “accessible” voting area, where voters can drop off absentee ballots and even vote without going inside. 

Masks are not required, though they’re highly encouraged. Maskless voters — a minority of voters throughout the day —are diverted to a special row of voting booths closest to the exit. 

CNN's Polo Sandoval reports from Londonderry, New Hampshire:

As of 11:15 a.m. MT, at least 74,000 people had cast ballots today in Arizona’s Maricopa County, according to the county recorder’s office. Maricopa is home to Phoenix and its suburbs. 

County election officials are expecting between 150,000 and 210,000 people to vote in person today, said spokeswoman Megan Gilbertson.

The county has verified 1.7 million early ballots, she said. 

The county has been tabulating its early votes since Oct. 20, and will be posting early voting results at 8 p.m. MT, she said. Gilbertson said she couldn’t say whether all or just some of the early votes will be posted at that time.

She said there have been no significant technical problems with today’s voting so far.

Attorneys for the state Democratic and Republican parties also said they haven’t had any reports of major problems.