Live updates as U.S. gets out to vote on Election Day 2024

As Americans get person to Election Day 2024 and will take betwixt erstwhile President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, anyone who is registered to ballot does not request re-register each year, unless location is simply a alteration of name, reside aliases governmental affiliation.

Each state's elector re-registration aliases elector registration update deadline tin beryllium recovered connected their respective Board of Elections website. 

Read a state-by-state breakdown of nan rules.

— Patrick Maguire and Emily Hung

Millions of Americans person already voted early successful nan 2024 election, but millions much will move retired successful personification connected Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5. Some of nan earliest polling places unfastened astatine 5 a.m. aliases 6 a.m. ET. The first states to adjacent will beryllium astatine 7 p.m. ET, while California and respective different Western states adjacent astatine 11 p.m. ET. Alaska is past to close, astatine 1 a.m. ET.

If you are successful statement earlier a tract closes, you person nan correct to stay successful statement and vote. View a database of elector authorities from nan ACLU here. 

Read much here for specifications connected canvass opening and closing times successful each state. 

If Trump carries every state he won successful 2020 — for nan liking of nan hypothetical, he would besides triumph nan aforesaid electoral votes he did successful 2020 from Nebraska and Maine (4 successful Nebraska and 1 successful Maine, wherever immoderate electoral votes are allocated by legislature district) — that would put him astatine 235 electoral votes successful 2024. 

Flipping Arizona, Nevada and Georgia would put Trump astatine 268, truthful he would beryllium 2 short. That would mean he has to flip 1 of nan Midwestern states — Michigan, Wisconsin or Pennsylvania.

Another way to getting Trump what he would request to regain nan White House: If Trump is astatine nan 235 script outlined supra and manages to triumph backmost each of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that would put him astatine 279, and he would not request to triumph Nevada, Arizona, Georgia.

And here's 1 more: Starting pinch nan 235 electoral votes for Trump noted above, if Trump wins 3 states he mislaid by little than 1 constituent successful 2020 (Wisconsin, Arizona and Georgia) he would person 272 electoral votes and beryllium elected president.

Trump victories successful North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania could besides beryllium important to becoming president erstwhile again. Taking those states, and maintaining each nan states and electoral votes he won successful 2020, would put him astatine precisely 270 electoral votes.

—Hunter Woodall and Olivia Rinaldi

The conflict for power of nan Senate is on, pinch a 3rd of nan enclosure connected nan ballot successful nan 2024 cycle. Democrats are facing a difficult electoral representation arsenic they activity clasp onto their constrictive 51-49 spot majority. Although nan result successful galore of nan 34 races is simply a foregone conclusion, a fistful stay competitive, and Republicans are eyeing a number opportunities to flip Democratic seats. From Ohio to Montana, Arizona to Nebraska, these races will determine which statement controls nan precocious enclosure adjacent year.

Read much astir 11 cardinal Senate contests here. 

Millions of Americans person already voted early successful nan 2024 election, but millions much will move retired successful personification connected Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5. Some of nan earliest polling places unfastened astatine 5 a.m. aliases 6 a.m. ET. The first states to adjacent will beryllium astatine 7 p.m. ET, while California and respective different Western states adjacent astatine 11 p.m. ET. Alaska is past to close, astatine 1 a.m. ET.

If you are successful statement earlier a tract closes, you person nan correct to stay successful statement and vote. View a database of elector authorities from nan ACLU here. 

Read much here for specifications connected canvass opening and closing times successful each state. 

The past clip power of nan House flipped successful a statesmanlike predetermination twelvemonth was successful 1952, erstwhile Republicans won nan House and Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected to his first word arsenic president. 

Republicans presently clasp nan House majority, a very slim 1 — location are 220 Republicans successful nan House and 212 Democrats, pinch 3 vacancies. There are elections for each 435 seats, and nan Cook Political Report rates only astir 20  of them arsenic toss-ups. 

The campaigner who gets to 270 electoral votes is nan 1 who wins nan presidency, and nan destiny of Harris and Trump is apt to hinge connected nan outcomes successful nan 7 battleground states: Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and North Carolina. 

Here are immoderate of nan ways Harris whitethorn scope 270 that look astir plausible, fixed past predetermination performance:

Mr. Biden won six of nan battleground states successful 2020: Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. He won 306 electoral votes overall. Going into Election Day 2024, polls are adjacent to moreover successful these states.

If Harris wins Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, nan "blue wall" Midwestern states Mr. Biden took successful 2020, and earns 3 of Maine's 4 electoral votes, but she loses Arizona, Nevada and Georgia, that would not present Harris nan White House. 

In this hypothetical, Trump would besides clasp onto each nan states that he won successful 2020 and 4 of Nebraska's 5 electoral votes, arsenic he did 4 years ago.

That script would put Harris astatine 269 electoral votes — 1 awkward of keeping nan White House nether Democrats' control. To get to 270, Harris would person to triumph a legislature territory successful Nebraska that includes nan metropolis of Omaha. The authorities awards immoderate of its electoral votes by legislature district, and winning Nebraska's Omaha-based district that Mr. Biden captured successful 2020 but Trump held successful 2016, would make Harris president.

— Hunter Woodall and Olivia Rinaldi