Live updates and the latest news on the 2024 election as voters hit the polls to decide who will be the next United States president, Kamala Harris or Donald Trump.

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By Joseph Ax, Helen Coster, Gram Slattery and Stephanie Kelly WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nearly three-quarters of voters in Tuesday's presidential election say American democracy is under threat, according to preliminary national exit polls from Edison Research,

There are 93 electoral votes at stake among the seven swing states. If Ms. Harris and Mr. Trump win all the states they are expected to win easily, Ms. Harris will need 44 of these electoral votes to secure the presidency. Mr. Trump will need 51.

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Kentucky (eight electoral votes) will be the first state to close its polls at 6 p.m. Eastern. For most of the eastern half of the country, voting polls will close between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., while polls on the West Coast will close at 11 p.m. Eastern.

Republicans are favored to gain Senate control of the Senate as Democrats are on defense in several swing states. A two-seat swing for Republicans would flip the chamber.

Voters said the economy and immigration are the top issues facing the country, but the future of democracy was also a leading motivator for many Americans casting a ballot in Tuesday’s presidential election.

Incumbents decided not to seek reelection in three of the districts. Republicans currently hold seven seats, while Democrats hold two. This year, all of the state's U.S. House races featured a Libertarian candidate running for office for the first time since at least 2012.

There’s heightened attention on Election Day issues by state and federal authorities with pockets of problems reported, but for the most part, voting has been steady.

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More Democrats than Republicans voted early in the Keystone State, the swing state with the most electoral college votes, 19. The latest secretary of state data shows 1,892,614 ballots have been returned, and of those, over 1.04 million were from registered Democrats while 622,800 were from registered Republicans.