By Anuj Cariappa

| Updated: Tuesday, November 3, 2020, 23:02 [IST]

Washington, Nov 03: Polling stations opened in New York, New Jersey and Virginia early Tuesday, marking the start of US Election Day as President Donald Trump seeks to beat forecasts and defeat challenger Joe Biden.

US election results 2020 may take longer to be announced this time because of the sheer volume of mailed-in ballots. Some states will begin counting their mail-in ballot before election day, some will start on election day, some will wait till the close of polling.

On January 20, 2021, the US will welcome its new President.

US Elections 2020: Time, Date, Results; Where to watch in India

Meet the candidates

Republican: Donald Trump

Vice presidential candidate: Mike Pence

Democratic: Joe Biden

Vice-presidential candidate: Kamala Harris

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11:02 PM, 3 Nov

Wearing face masks and standing spaced apart, Americans waited at polling stations early on Tuesday to choose a president on an Election Day marked so far by orderliness and short lines, even as major cities braced for potential unrest.

10:48 PM, 3 Nov

Joe Biden today visited St Paul's in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He attended the grammar school here and this city is widely believed to have left an indelible impression on him.

10:34 PM, 3 Nov

The number of people attending today's White House election night party has been reduced to 250, CNN reported a source as saying.

10:17 PM, 3 Nov

More than 100 million voted early in US election: watchdog, AFP reports.

10:12 PM, 3 Nov

Meanwhile, Biden, 77, at an event in Pittsburgh on Monday, which was headlined by popular singer Lady Gaga, said he is confident of a big win. "Folks, I have a feeling we're coming together for a big win tomorrow," he said.

10:07 PM, 3 Nov

Addressing as many as five election rallies in as many states on the last day of the campaigning, Trump exuded confidence of winning the race with a much greater margin. "We are gonna have a red wave. It's gonna be a beautiful sight," Trump told thousands of his supporters in Wisconsin on Monday.

10:06 PM, 3 Nov

Trump predicted that a red wave would re-elect him to the White House, while his Democratic challenger Biden is confident of a "big win".

10:01 PM, 3 Nov

US President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Tuesday exuded confidence of a big victory in the presidential polls as Americans in large numbers headed to cast their ballots to decide the fate of the two leaders in the world's most significant democratic exercise.

9:52 PM, 3 Nov

Joe Biden during a visit to his childhood home in Scranton, Pennsylvania signed one of the living room walls, CNN reports. “From this house to the White House with the grace of God. Joe Biden 11-3-2020," he wrote.

9:18 PM, 3 Nov

Polling machines are up and running in Spalding County, Georgia, south of Atlanta, after facing technical issues, reports CNN.

9:17 PM, 3 Nov

NBC News reports that in Phoenix, Arizona, citizens began to vote from early sunrise.

9:11 PM, 3 Nov

United States First Lady Melania Trump casts her vote in Florida.

8:32 PM, 3 Nov

Initial reports indicated an early large turnout. In the battle ground State of Pennsylvania, hundreds of people were seen outside polling booths even before the start of the polling.

8:30 PM, 3 Nov

The timing of the start of the polling differs from State to State, mainly due to the different time zones. People mostly in the East coast started trickling down to the polling stations as many States opened up the polling stations at around 6 am (4.30 pm IST). These States include Virginia, New York, New Jersey, and Maine. Polling in California starts at 7 am (8.30 pm IST).

8:26 PM, 3 Nov

There is an estimated four million Indian-American population of which about 2.5 million are potential voters in the November 2020 presidential elections. Over 1.3 million Indian-Americans are voters in key battleground states, including Texas, Michigan, Florida and Pennsylvania.

8:15 PM, 3 Nov

The mail-in ballots could take days or weeks to be counted in some states - meaning a winner might not be declared in the hours after polls close on Tuesday.

8:14 PM, 3 Nov

Amidst a resurgent COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 100 million people have already cast their ballots in early voting, putting the country on course for its highest turnout in a century. Some 239 million people are eligible to vote this year.

8:13 PM, 3 Nov

Americans were voting in large numbers on Tuesday in one of the most divisive bitter presidential elections in decades in which incumbent Republican Donald Trump is challenged by Democrat Joe Biden.

8:05 PM, 3 Nov

Joe Biden has arrived in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, one of the states that holds the key to winning the 2020 election.

8:04 PM, 3 Nov

"We can win the battle for the soul of the nation," says Joe Biden, asking people to check their polling places to vote in US Presidential Election 2020.

7:53 PM, 3 Nov

President Donald Trump says he believes his large rally crowds during his fast-paced weeks of campaigning are the “ultimate poll” and translate into a lot of votes for his reelection.

7:53 PM, 3 Nov

President Donald Trump says he believes his large rally crowds during his fast-paced weeks of campaigning are the “ultimate poll” and translate into a lot of votes for his reelection.

7:37 PM, 3 Nov

Imagine how it will feel the first time the sun comes up and Donald Trump is no longer the president of the United States.
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) November 3, 2020

Former Democratic nomination candidate for 2020 US election Pete Buttigeig tweets:

7:25 PM, 3 Nov

Joe Biden urges voters to place their trust in him and Kamala Harris during the US election 2020 as they had done in 2008 and 2012.

7:05 PM, 3 Nov

Former first lady Michelle Obama backs Kamala Harris call for people to wear masks when they vote.

6:50 PM, 3 Nov

On US election day, Trump says he feels 'very good' about chances.

6:47 PM, 3 Nov

Twitter has said that they are going to clamp down on people claiming early victory in states or overall.

6:45 PM, 3 Nov

President Donald Trump raised barriers for Chinese companies seeking to invest or raise money in the United States that will have a lasting impact even if he does not win a second term, Reuters quoted dealmakers and policy experts.

6:35 PM, 3 Nov

Democratic nominee Joe Biden took all five votes cast in Dixille Notch, a small New Hampshire township along the US-Canada border that was among the first to vote in the election, CNN reported.

6:29 PM, 3 Nov

Joe Biden has just left church in Wilmington, Delaware with his wife Jill, where the grave of his son Beau, who died in 2015 exists.

12:04 PM, 3 Nov

Donald Trump says he will win anyway.

12:05 PM, 3 Nov

Trump has sought to recapture the spirit of his shock win four years back. You elected an outsider are president who is finally putting America first. Get out and vote, that is all I ask, he said.

12:06 PM, 3 Nov

Americans have rushed to vote early, already casting nearly 92 million mail-in ballots that could take days or weeks to be counted in some states - meaning a winner might not be declared in the hours after polls close on Tuesday.

12:20 PM, 3 Nov

America cannot afford four more years of Trump, says Kamala Harris

12:21 PM, 3 Nov

According to data published by the New York Times, the highest volume of misinformation regarding in-mail voting has been floating in the battleground states. These states saw the most distortions and falsehoods about voting by mail between Sept. 1 and Oct. 29, according to Zignal Labs, a media insights company that tallied the likely misinformation mentions across online news outlets.

12:23 PM, 3 Nov

The social media post of President Donald Trump in which he called a US Supreme Court decision in the battleground state of Pennsylvania very dangerous has flagged by both Twitter and Facebook.

12:28 PM, 3 Nov

Americans vote Tuesday in an election amounting to a referendum on Donald Trump and his uniquely brash, bruising presidency that Democratic opponent and frontrunner Joe Biden urged supporters to end, restoring "our democracy." The United States is more divided and angry than at any time since the Vietnam War era of the 1970s -- and fears that Trump could dispute the result of the election are only fueling those tensions.

12:36 PM, 3 Nov

Fearing poll-related violence, White House, US businesses take additional security cover.

12:48 PM, 3 Nov

A record number of nearly 10 crore Americans have already exercised their franchise in the presidential election, with another six crore likely to vote on the real election day on Tuesday.

12:51 PM, 3 Nov

The first ballots have been cast in Dixville Notch and Millsfield towns of northeastern state of New Hampshire. In the make shift Ballot Room at Dixville Notch's Balsams Resort, Les Otten, one of the only five local registered voters, cast the first ballot.

1:00 PM, 3 Nov

An estimated 16 crore people casting their votes in a presidential election is a record in itself in terms of turnout after 1900, according to Michael P McDonald, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida, who leads the US Election Project that tracks early voting.

1:07 PM, 3 Nov

An estimated 23.9 crore people are eligible to vote, according to the US Election Project. "It appears likely that around 100 million early votes will be cast by the time Tuesday morning reports are processed," McDonald said on Monday on the eve of the crucial election. The voter turnout, he said, will be higher than 2016, because some states have already exceeded their 2016 turnout or are close to doing so.

1:07 PM, 3 Nov

Three states -- Hawaii, Texas and Montana -- have already exceeded their 2016 voter turnout. Other states such as North Carolina, Georgia, New Mexico, Nevada and Tennessee have already witnessed a record early voting that has crossed more than 90 per cent of their 2016 turnout.

1:07 PM, 3 Nov

Irrespective of the outcome of the November 3 presidential elections, relationship between India and the US is expected to continue at the same pace as it has in the last two decades and strengthen further, policy documents and remarks from the two campaigns indicate.

1:16 PM, 3 Nov

President Donald Trump, in the first term of his presidency, has emerged as the best friend of India at the White House taking the relationship to a new level and his friendship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi is well known, which was reflected in the two addressing massive two joint rallies in the US and India in less than a year.

1:21 PM, 3 Nov

Former vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, has a strong track record of being an ardent advocate of a strong India-US relationship both as a Senator from Delaware for over three decades and then as deputy of President Barack Obama for eight years.

1:28 PM, 3 Nov

The national polls have given a firm lead to Joe Biden. However the race is closer in the states that could decide the outcome.

1:46 PM, 3 Nov

To be elected a candidate would need at least 270 votes in what is called the electoral college. Each state gets a particular number of votes partly based on its population. There are a total of 538 up for grabs.

1:49 PM, 3 Nov

Joe Biden won in the tiny town of Dixville Notch in New Hampshire in a sweep. He got all five votes. In the nearby town of Millsfield Donald Trump won by 16-5 lead over Biden.

2:11 PM, 3 Nov

Nearly 100 million people have already casted their votes, a tally by the US Elections Project at the University of Florida revealed. This record has been facilitated by the sharp increase in mail-in and early -in-person voting.

2:13 PM, 3 Nov

Joe Biden concludes his campaign with short Twitter note to his supporters, “Let's bring this home”.

2:15 PM, 3 Nov

In the final hours before results of the US election start coming in, a Reuters report says that Joe Biden appears to be in the lead in the key state of Florida.

2:26 PM, 3 Nov

In a live telecast on state TV on this morning, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has said that the US election result has “no impact on our policies.”

2:30 PM, 3 Nov

November 3 is trending on Twitter as Election Day in the United States begins. Some users are simply urging everyone to vote, while others wait eagerly for the results.

2:36 PM, 3 Nov

Tamil Nadu: Posters showing support for US vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris put up in her native village Thulasendrapuram.

2:44 PM, 3 Nov

The social media post of President Donald Trump in which he called a US Supreme Court decision in the battleground state of Pennsylvania very dangerous has flagged by both Twitter and Facebook.

2:51 PM, 3 Nov

Even before Election Day, the 2020 race was the most litigated in memory.

2:54 PM, 3 Nov

President Donald Trump is promising more to come. The candidates and parties have enlisted prominent lawyers with ties to Democratic and Republican administrations should that litigation take on a new urgency if a narrow margin in a battleground state becomes the difference between another four years for Trump or a Joe Biden administration.

2:58 PM, 3 Nov

Since the 2000 presidential election, which was ultimately decided by the Supreme Court, both parties have enlisted legal teams to prepare for the unlikely event that voting wouldn't settle the contest. But this year, there is a near presumption that legal fights will ensue and that only a definitive outcome is likely to forestall them.

3:00 PM, 3 Nov

A Pennsylvania case at the Supreme Court pits Donald Verrilli, who was President Barack Obama's top Supreme Court lawyer, against John Gore, a onetime high-ranking Trump Justice Department official.

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