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Queues are building, a ballot-scanning glitch has hit one county, and a storm is set to hit part of the US as voters decide.

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Polls show the candidates running neck and neck in each of the seven states likely to determine the winner.

Opinion polls show the candidates running neck and neck in each of the seven states likely to determine the winner: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Shortly before 6am NZ time, Trump cast his vote in Florida. He said he was "very confident" he would win and that the election "won't even be close".

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Harris had voted before election day.

In Philadelphia yesterday, Vice President Harris repeated a common message that America was ready to move on from a decade of politics that she said had been driven by fear and division.

Trump held his final campaign rally in Grand Rapids in Michigan - just as he did in 2016 and 2020 - and said he would fix all the country's problems and lower taxes.

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