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4:55 PM ET, November 8, 2016

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CNN:
Trump files Nevada voting lawsuit  —  NV GOP chair: Polls open late for a ‘certain group’  — Trump lawyers want pertinent early vote ballots not to be “co-mingled or interspersed” with other ballots  — The state's GOP chairman said polling locations were kept open late so a “certain group” could vote
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Campaign Sues Over Early Voting In Nevada  —  The Donald Trump campaign filed a lawsuit Monday against election officials in Clark County, Nevada, which includes Las Vegas, CNN reported.  —  The Trump campaign is suing Joe P. Gloria, the Clark County registrar of voters …
Discussion: alan.com and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Judge Denies Trump's Request In Lawsuit Challenging Nevada Early-Vote Process  —  A state judge in Clark County, Nevada, rejected a Trump campaign lawsuit in a fiery hearing on Tuesday morning.  —  The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in state court on Monday, asking for ballots and voting machines to be …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
Tom LoBianco / CNN:
Keeping track of election irregularities  —  Washington (CNN)A look at voting irregularities across the United States, including poll station problems, misinformation and turnout developments.
CBS News:
Nevada judge denies Trump campaign lawsuit over early voting
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Early exit polls: Voters say they want a ‘strong leader’  —  More voters this year are looking for a strong leader than in previous presidential elections, according to an early morning exit poll, whose results could shift significantly over the course of Election Day.
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Early exit poll: Clinton winning ground game
Discussion: RedState
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Exit Poll: Clinton Bests Trump With Ground Game
Discussion: Hot Air and Florida Politics
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Voters Want a Strong Leader More Than Anything Else, Exit Poll Shows
Tom E. Curran / CSNNE.com:
Belichick did indeed write letter to Trump  —  CSN New England confirmed this morning that Bill Belichick did indeed drop a note to Donald Trump on Monday.  —  The Republican presidential hopeful, speaking in Manchester, New Hampshire on Monday night said he had the backing of both the Patriots head coach and quarterback Tom Brady.
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Henry McKenna / Patriots Wire:
Gisele posts on Instagram that she and Tom Brady won't back Donald Trump  —  Gisele may have spilled the beans on Tom Brady's presidential vote.  —  The New England Patriots quarterback has done his best not to say who he will vote for in the 2016 Presidential Election.
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Tom Brady's wife says the QB isn't backing Trump  —  Gisele Bündchen — wife of NFL superstar Tom Brady — flatly rejected Donald Trump's assertion that her husband had voted for the GOP nominee.  —  “NO!” the Brazilian model told an Instagram user who asked if it were true that she and Brady were backing the brash billionaire.
New York Daily News:
Bare-chested anti-Trump protesters removed from GOP candidate's Midtown Manhattan polling place  —  Two topless women stormed Donald Trump's Midtown Manhattan polling place on Tuesday in protest of the Republican candidate.  —  The women, in their mid-20s, arrived to the P.S. 59 polling site …
Discussion: Daily Wire, TheBlaze and alan.com
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Topless protesters crash Trump's polling place  —  Two nearly nude women were escorted out of a polling station in midtown Manhattan Tuesday.  —  The unidentified women were shouting “out of our polls, Trump,” at the station where Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump
Dana Williams / USA Today:
Guam, which has historically predicted election winner, picks Clinton  —  Nervous?  Here is what to expect tomorrow.  —  HAGATNA, Guam — Hillary Clinton has overwhelmingly won the vote on the tiny U.S. island of Guam.  —  The territory, located west of the international date line …
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Neetzan Zimmerman / The Hill:
Clinton declared winner in Guam
Discussion: USA Today
Mother Jones:
Voter Intimidation Targeting Muslims Reported at Michigan Polling Site  —  A man in East Lansing, Michigan, attempted to prevent two women wearing hijabs from voting at their polling place on Tuesday morning in what the county clerk called an act of voter intimidation.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Raw Story
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
A guide to voter intimidation and how to report it
Discussion: AOL
Julian Assange / WikiLeaks:
Assange Statement on the US Election  —  In recent months, WikiLeaks and I personally have come under enormous pressure to stop publishing what the Clinton campaign says about itself to itself.  That pressure has come from the campaign's allies, including the Obama administration …
CBS Pittsburgh:
Voting Issues: Some Trump Voters Reporting Ballots Switching To Clinton  —  CLINTON TOWNSHIP (KDKA) - Today is Election Day and for the most part, voting has been smooth.  —  Many areas are already seeing long lines with some officials saying they wouldn't be surprised if voter turnout topped 80 percent.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Real Voter Fraud  —  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The casting of a ballot is the most fundamentally American act that any of us takes.  It connects us to the Enlightenment ideals of the country's founding — the once-radical notion that human beings should think for themselves, rather than merely obey kings and priests.
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Emily Badger / New York Times:
Why Long Voting Lines Today Could Have Long-Term Consequences
Steve Orr / Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:
Susan B. Anthony grave attracts hundreds … The modest grave site of suffrage icon Susan B. Anthony, now a shrine to women's rights, is drawing overflow crowds Tuesday as voters consider choosing the nation's first female president.  —  Special measures are being put in place to handle …
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Steve Orr / USA Today:
People are covering Susan B. Anthony's grave stone with ‘I Voted’ stickers
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Broken voting machines reported in several states  —  Voting machines are malfunctioning in some parts of Ohio, New York, Texas and other states, according to local media reports.  —  About six hours after polls opened on Tuesday, voters have reported malfunctioning machines in multiple locations …
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Jessica Huseman / Electionland:
Broken Voting Machines Across U.S. (In Other Words, Everything is Normal)
Discussion: WayneDupree.com
Amanda Batchelor / WPLG-TV:
2 precinct clerks fired at Herb Skolnick Center in Pompano Beach after disturbance  —  Fight breaks out between man, woman at Jupiter polling location  —  POMPANO BEACH, Fla. - Two precinct clerks were fired Tuesday at the Herb Skolnick Center in Pompano Beach after a disturbance.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Let's Not Do This Again  —  If I had to sum up the election of 2016 in one clause, I would say it has been a sociological revolution, a moral warning and a political summons.  —  Sociologically, this campaign has been an education in how societies come apart.
Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:
Trump Holds Out on Whether He'd Accept Loss; Clinton Hits Radio  —  Two different visions of U.S. drawn by candidates in race  —  Republicans seek to hold Senate, House majorities in D.C.  —  Donald Trump continued to hold out on whether he would accept the results of the U.S. presidential election contest …
 
 
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia mayor creates firestorm with Election Day post
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www.wnyc.org:
Alec Baldwin Sheds the Trump Impressions on Election Day
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Tobias Konitzer / Washington Post:
New poll: 30% of Trump supporters say they'll protest the election if he loses
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Apocalypse Now: Survivalists Dig in for November 9
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Claude Brodesser-Akner / New Jersey Online:
In darkness and without fanfare, Gov. Christie votes for Trump
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Sam Wang / Princeton Election Consortium:
Final Projections: Clinton 323 EV, 51 Democratic Senate seats, GOP House
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
GOP insiders worried party's turnout effort will fall short
Discussion: Mediaite, Hot Air and RedState
Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
2016's Big Reveal
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Election Update: Clinton Gains, And The Polls Magically Converge