Politics

21 Election Day Photos That Show The Stakes Have Never Been Higher

Here’s what voting amid a pandemic looked like across the U.S. on Nov. 3.

by Michelle Toglia
A woman in a green coat on the street during the Election Day 2020
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People protested at the the Black Lives Matter Plaza in D.C. on Election Day.

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After early voting broke records, people lined up at polling stations across the country in-person on Election Day. Here, a voter casts their ballot at Jennings Senior High School in St Louis on Election Day.

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Linda Benjamin, a poll clerk, looked out for possible curbside voters on Election Day in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

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People gathered at the Black Lives Matter Plaza in D.C. to protest — and support — Trump on Election Day.

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Fadima Hassan held up her "I Voted" sticker after she cast her ballot at the Brian Coyle Center in Minneapolis on Election Day.

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Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris visited the Greater Grace Temple polling site in Detroit on Election Day.

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Voters in Zearing, Iowa walked into a polling location before sunrise on Election Day.

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Daniel Billingslea, 27, held the American flag while canvassing outside a polling location in Detroit on Nov. 3.

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A college student in Minneapolis offered voters free rides to polling sites on Nov. 3.

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A poll worker at the BCYF Shelburne Community Center in Boston organized "I Voted" stickers on Election Day amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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A voter in Arlington, Virginia, showed up to vote on Nov. 3. with a handwritten nod to gun control on his shirt.

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Maine's Democratic Senate candidate Sara Gideon gave a socially-distant air hug to a voter at the Freeport High School polling station on Election Day.

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Trump supporters and protestors came face- to-face at the Black Lives Matter Plaza in D.C. on Election Day.

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Voters waited in line at the Cranberry-Highlands Golf Club in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania on Election Day morning.

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A couple hugged as they checked into a polling site in Las Vegas on Election Day.

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Voters in masks waited in a socially-distanced polling line in Texas, a battleground state in the 2020 Election, on Nov. 3.

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Demonstrators held up signs across from the White House on Nov. 3.

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A voting booth on Election Day in Brooklyn's Kings Theater.

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People congregated in D.C.'s Black Lives Matter Plaza to protest and support Trump on Nov. 3.

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Democratic nominee Joe Biden visited The Warehouse, a teen community center in East Wilmington, Delaware on Election Day.

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Voter Dyana Elam brought her 11-year-old children with her to cast her ballot at Union Station in Los Angeles on Nov. 3.

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