Live election updates: 80 million have voted early as Trump, Harris sprint to finish

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Last updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2024 11:10AM GMT
Presidential candidates make final pitch to voters on Election Day Eve
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump made a final pitch to voters on Monday night ahead of 2024 Election Day.

Election Day has arrived with the race for the White House still very tight -- with the latest ABC News/Ipsos poll out Sunday showing Kamala Harris slightly ahead nationally but Donald Trump ahead in some key swing states -- and the two candidates deadlocked in Pennsylvania.

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Harris spent her last full day campaigning in battleground Pennsylvania while Trump hit the trail in North Carolina and Pennsylvania before ending the day in Michigan.

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ByBrittany Shepherd ABCNews logo
Nov 04, 2024, 11:07 PM

Over 80 million Americans have voted early

On the eve of Election Day, over 80 million Americans have voted early, according to the University of Florida Election Lab.

The tally includes both early in-person voting and absentee ballots.

People stand in line during the last day of early voting, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, in Charlotte, N.C.
People stand in line during the last day of early voting, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, in Charlotte, N.C.
ByPeter Charalambous ABCNews logo
Nov 04, 2024, 9:56 PM GMT

Judge allows Elon Musk's $1 million giveaways to continue

Following a six-hour hearing on Monday, a Philadelphia judge is allowing Elon Musk's America PAC to continue its million-dollar giveaway to registered swing state voters.

Common Pleas Court Judge Angelo Foglietta denied Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner's request for an injunction to stop the giveaway, which has handed out $17 million to voters across the swing states. According to defense attorneys, America PAC plans to announce their 18th and final prize winner tomorrow in Michigan.

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Elon Musk speaks as part of a campaign town hall in support of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump in Folsom, Pa., Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024.
Elon Musk speaks as part of a campaign town hall in support of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump in Folsom, Pa., Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024.
ByOlivia Rubin ABCNews logo
Nov 04, 2024, 9:52 PM GMT

Georgia Supreme Court reverses deadline extension for voters who received ballots late

In a win for the Republican National Committee, the Georgia Supreme Court on Monday ruled that thousands of voters whose mail-in ballots were delayed will not have extra time to send them back.

The ruling from the court reversed a lower judge's ruling that had granted 3,000 voters an extension of the mail-in-ballot deadline, after Cobb County election officials admitted they missed the deadline to ship them out.

The deadline for mail-in ballots to be received in Georgia is Election Day -- but the lower judge had given those voters an extension for them to be postmarked by election day and received by Nov. 8, the same deadline for overseas ballots.

The RNC had appealed the ruling, saying it was a violation of the election code and that voters still had other ways they could vote, including in person.

The Georgia Supreme Court ordered the Cobb board to "keep separate" the absentee ballots of those voters that are received after the deadline on Election Day but before Nov. 8 "in a secure, safe, and sealed container separate from other voted ballots."

Cobb County had previously been ordered to ship out all of the delayed ballots by Nov. 1 with express shipping and overnight return envelopes.

The court also ordered the board to notify the voters by email, text or public announcement of the change.

ByLuke Barr ABCNews logo
Nov 04, 2024, 9:14 PM GMT

CISA continues to see threats toward election officials

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency continues to see threats towards election officials a day before Election Day, according to a top official for CISA, the cyber arm of the Department of Homeland Security.

In a call to reporters Monday, Cait Conley, who is in charge of CISA's election security portfolio, called these threats "fundamentally un-American."

Poll workers set up ballot-marking machines at an early in-person voting site at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, in Marshall, N.C.
Poll workers set up ballot-marking machines at an early in-person voting site at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, in Marshall, N.C.

CISA Director Jen Easterly said most local elections officials are in touch with law enforcement.

"We've not seen specific reporting about violence at polling places, so I certainly don't want voters to feel at all intimidated about going to voting locations," Easterly said, saying it should "really be a day of celebration."

Easterly said they "expect" disruptions throughout Election Day, and they are prepared for it. Foreign adversaries -- particularly Russia, China and Iran -- are looking to "undermine American confidence and the legitimacy of our elections and to stoke partisan discord," she said.

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Nov 04, 2024, 9:09 PM GMT

Musk's sweepstakes winners were vetted, signed NDAs: Political adviser

Before announcing the winners of Elon Musk's $1 million giveaway, America PAC employees conducted background checks on them, vetted their social media and had them sign non-disclosure agreements, Elon Musk's political adviser Chris Young testified during an ongoing hearing in Philadelphia on Monday.

The inside look at how winners were selected is at odds with how Musk himself described the "random" selection process.

"Were you surprised that he used the word 'randomly'?" Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner's attorney, John Summers, asked.

"That's not the word I would have selected," Young said.

Young testified that he reviewed candidates based on the location of Musk's next rally before vetting the people who signed America PAC's petition in support of the First and Second amendments.