Source: THE AS­SO­CI­AT­ED PRESS

Amer­i­can vot­ers are fac­ing a stark choice be­tween Re­pub­li­can pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee Don­ald Trump and De­mo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee Ka­mala Har­ris, both of whom of­fer dras­ti­cal­ly dif­fer­ent tem­pera­ments and vi­sions for the coun­try.

With just hours un­til polls close, tens of mil­lions of Amer­i­cans al­ready have added their bal­lots to the 84 mil­lion cast in ear­ly vot­ing.

Those cast­ing Elec­tion Day bal­lots most­ly en­coun­tered a smooth process, with iso­lat­ed re­ports of hic­cups that reg­u­lar­ly hap­pen, in­clud­ing long lines, tech­ni­cal is­sues and bal­lot print­ing er­rors.

Here are oth­er trend­ing sto­ries on the U.S. Elec­tion from THE AS­SO­CI­AT­ED PRESS

Den­ver-area au­thor­i­ties look in­to bal­lot is­sues at adult day care fa­cil­i­ty

By COLLEEN SLEVIN

Au­thor­i­ties in the Den­ver area are in­ves­ti­gat­ing af­ter elec­tion of­fi­cials dis­cov­ered “dis­crep­an­cies” with sig­na­tures on sev­er­al mail bal­lots sent from an adult day care fa­cil­i­ty in the city.

That’s ac­cord­ing to Den­ver clerk and recorder Paul Lopez in a state­ment.

Elec­tion work­ers in Col­orado check the sig­na­tures on mail bal­lots against vot­er sig­na­tures on file to make sure they’re sub­mit­ted by the vot­er the bal­lot was sent to. Lopez said his of­fice no­ti­fied law en­force­ment and the Den­ver dis­trict at­tor­ney’s of­fice was in­ves­ti­gat­ing. He al­so said law en­force­ment in near­by coun­ties were al­so in­ves­ti­gat­ing but did not ex­plain why.

Den­ver’s KMGH-TV, which first re­port­ed the in­ves­ti­ga­tion, said bal­lots from the fa­cil­i­ty were sent to six coun­ties.

Col­orado over­whelm­ing­ly votes by mail.

Vot­ing ma­chines mal­func­tion in cen­tral Iowa coun­ty

By MICHAEL GOLD­BERG

In Cen­tral Iowa’s Sto­ry Coun­ty, home to about 100,000 peo­ple and the city of Ames, vot­ing ma­chines at some precincts mal­func­tioned, por­tend­ing pos­si­ble de­lays to re­port­ing re­sults.

“We are aware of tech­ni­cal is­sues re­gard­ing tab­u­la­tors in some precincts in Sto­ry Coun­ty,” said Ash­ley Hunt Es­quiv­el, a spokesper­son for Iowa Sec­re­tary of State’s Of­fice. “The au­di­tor is work­ing with the ven­dor and our of­fice to re­solve it. It is not stop­ping any­one from cast­ing a sin­gle bal­lot. It may im­pact how quick­ly we can re­port re­sults.”

Sto­ry Coun­ty Au­di­tor Lucy Mar­tin told the Des Moines Reg­is­ter that ma­chines did not read “cer­tain bal­lot styles” at about 12 of the coun­ty’s 45 polling lo­ca­tions. Elec­tion work­ers would have to count bal­lots at those lo­ca­tions by hand, ac­cord­ing to lo­cal De­mo­c­ra­t­ic and Re­pub­li­can Par­ty of­fi­cials.

The ma­chines were test­ed, and the cause of the tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties was un­known, Mar­tin added.

In Rich­mond, Vir­ginia, Elec­toral Board re­moves precinct chief over com­plaints

By TRAVIS LOLLER

In Rich­mond, Vir­ginia, the lo­cal Elec­toral Board held an emer­gency meet­ing to re­move a precinct chief.

Board Chair Star­let Stevens said in a tele­phone in­ter­view that 11 vot­ers were giv­en bal­lots that on­ly had the pres­i­den­tial race and not lo­cal races.

Be­cause they cast the bal­lots, they were un­able to re­do their votes with the cor­rect bal­lots.

Stevens said the Board vot­ed to re­move the precinct chief not for the er­ror but be­cause the chief was be­ing “dis­re­spect­ful.”

The Board al­so re­ceived a com­plaint that the precinct chief re­fused to help a per­son who want­ed to vote curb side, some­thing that Vir­ginia law al­lows for any­one 65 and old­er or phys­i­cal­ly dis­abled.

Michi­gan polling place clos­es over gas leak

By ED WHITE

Of­fi­cials in Northville, Michi­gan, closed a polling place at mid­day to­day, and sent vot­ers to an­oth­er precinct in the De­troit sub­urb be­cause of a nat­ur­al gas leak.

Con­sumers En­er­gy was in­ves­ti­gat­ing the leak.

Har­ris: ‘This tru­ly rep­re­sents the best of who we are’

By DAN MER­I­CA

Ka­mala Har­ris used her vis­it to a phone bank host­ed by the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Na­tion­al Com­mit­tee on Tues­day to both thank the sup­port­ers work­ing to turn out the vote and make calls her­self.

“This tru­ly rep­re­sents the best of who we are,” Har­ris told the sup­port­ers mak­ing calls at the phone bank. She was then hand­ed a cell phone and joined in the phone bank.

“I am well,” Har­ris told the per­son. “Have you vot­ed al­ready?”

The per­son re­spond­ed, to which Har­ris said, “You did? Thank you.”

‘My faith in this coun­try has been so re­stored,’ Walz says of 2024 ex­pe­ri­ence

By DAN MER­I­CA

Min­neso­ta Gov. Tim Walz told re­porters Tues­day that his ex­pe­ri­ence as Vice Pres­i­dent Ka­mala Har­ris’ run­ning mate “re­stored” his faith in the na­tion.

“This is tru­ly a re­mark­able thing we do every four years,” he said in a con­ver­sa­tion with re­porters out­side his cam­paign plane. “It’s democ­ra­cy. It’s messy. It’s beau­ti­ful. It’s the peo­ple.”

“My faith in this coun­try has been so re­stored,” he added.

Walz said he had not talked with Har­ris on Elec­tion Day but pro­ject­ed con­fi­dence that they would pre­vail over for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.

“I just can’t de­scribe the dif­fer­ence in the vibe that is out there with folks and how hun­gry they are for some­thing dif­fer­ent,” he said.