Nov

2012

8:56am, EST

Your Photos: Election Day in America

By Jon Sweeney, NBC News

Readers across the country are sharing their Election Day with us by sending photos of themselves voting, their polling stations, and what's important to them during this special day.

It's easy to participate, just post your pictures on Twitter, Instagram and tag them #nbcpolitics, or upload your photos using the form at the bottom of this article. Please use the caption or tweet to tell us a little about the photo. We'll update this photo gallery throughout the day, so come back and see if we've selected your picture.

Click the images below to see them larger, and read their captions.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Photos selected by NBCNews.com, but captions and images are unedited

Submit your photos below, or tag images #nbcpolitics on Instagram or Twitter.

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Slideshow: Election 2012

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Campaigning with Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, voting and election results.

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Nov

2012

4:34pm, EST

Your Election Day photos: show us what you're seeing at the polls

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Share your Election Day photos with us, by tagging pictures #nbcpolitics on Instagram or Twitter.

By Jon Sweeney, NBC News

Election Day is upon us and we want you to help us tell the story of this important day. Share photos of you voting, your polling station, what’s important to you, or anything else that best sums up this American experience.

UPDATE: See reader photos from Election Day posted Nov. 6.

How do you participate?

Post pictures on Twitter, Instagram and tag them #nbcpolitics, or upload your photos using the form below. Please use the caption or tweet to tell us a little about the photo.

See what readers have already submitted

Readers have already shared photos of early voting. Click the images below to see them larger, and read their captions.

NOTE: Photos selected by NBCNews.com, but captions and images are unedited.

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Slideshow: On the campaign trail

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In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.

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Election Day: Chicago to vote for new mayor

By Elena Grothe

The AP reports:

Chicago voters are braving icy weather to cast ballots in a mayoral election that will end the long reign of retiring Mayor Richard M. Daley and bring certain change to city politics.

Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel shook hands with commuters outside a South Side train stop Tuesday. He has been leading in polls and is hoping to get more than 50 percent of the votes cast Tuesday and to avoid an April runoff with the second-place vote-getter.

Tuesday's election in Chicago could select the city's first Jewish mayor, or the first black female or Hispanic to hold that office.

Emanuel's primary challengers are former Chicago public schools president Gery Chico, former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun and City Clerk Miguel del Valle.