☀ November 3: Election Day voting kicks off, 99 million early votes cast and how the Electoral College works

Aleksandra Bush

Updated: Nov 3, 2020 / 07:21 AM CST

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, November 3, 2020. Here’s a look at your news across the nation:

1️⃣🗳 Live election updates: Polls open on East Coast

Voters line up at the Waterville Junior High School polling station before doors open during the election in Waterville, Maine, U.S. November 3, 2020. (REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz)

2️⃣🌙 Tradition: 2 New Hampshire towns cast votes after midnight

A man tallies the votes from the five ballots cast just after midnight, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Dixville Notch, N.H. Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden received all five votes. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen)

3️⃣✔ US surpasses 99 million early ballots

4️⃣ 💭Here’s how the Electoral College works

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Need a break? Go out of this world with NASA’s trove of cosmic images

For those who need a brief reprieve, NASA has shared several cosmic images that can take you out of this world, even just for a moment.

This selection of images of different kinds of light from various missions and telescopes have been combined to better understand the universe. Each composite image contains X-ray data from Chandra as well as other telescopes. (Credits: NASA/CXC/SAO, NASA/STScI, NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSC, ESO/NAOJ/NRAO, NRAO/AUI/NSF, NASA/CXC/SAO/PSU, and NASA/ESA)

📅 What we’re watching

🔴 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will campaign today in Pennsylvania before heading back to Delaware to watch the election results. So far, President Trump is not scheduled to travel. Trump is expected to spend election night in DC.

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