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| Clinton vs. Trump: Voters Have Their Say on Election Day | Clinton vs. Trump: Voters Have Their Say on Election Day |
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| How are voters feeling? We sent more than two dozen New York Times reporters out across the country. They found resignation, enthusiasm, gloom, joy, fear and excitement. | How are voters feeling? We sent more than two dozen New York Times reporters out across the country. They found resignation, enthusiasm, gloom, joy, fear and excitement. |
| INDIANAPOLIS — After an acrimonious campaign that included talk of mass deportation and religious tests for immigrants, a group of Muslims gathered here Tuesday to reflect on the toll. | |
| “My son, he asked me just last night, ‘Are we going to get kicked out of the country?’” said Aliya Amin of the Muslim Alliance of Indiana. | |
| Ms. Amin said that her son, who is 8, was worried about a potential Trump presidency, and that she had to assure him they were American citizens and were not leaving Indiana. | |
| “This election cycle, unfortunately, Muslims have been treated like a tumor in the body of the United States,” said Rima Shahid, executive director of the alliance. “And that’s not the case. We are a vital organ.” — MITCH SMITH | |
| HOUSTON — Kimberly Mace and Emilio Hernandez have never met, but their paths crossed at a polling place here, and they shared milestone: It was their first time voting. | HOUSTON — Kimberly Mace and Emilio Hernandez have never met, but their paths crossed at a polling place here, and they shared milestone: It was their first time voting. |
| Ms. Mace is 54. Mr. Hernandez is 18. She voted for Donald J, Trump. He voted for Hillary Clinton. | Ms. Mace is 54. Mr. Hernandez is 18. She voted for Donald J, Trump. He voted for Hillary Clinton. |
| Mr. Hernandez called voting a big step. “It let me know I’m an adult,” he said. | Mr. Hernandez called voting a big step. “It let me know I’m an adult,” he said. |
| Ms. Mace said she felt like crying in the voting booth, and tears welled up in her eyes as she spoke. “I don’t really know how to explain it,” she said. “It’s because I can do it” — MANNY FERNANDEZ | Ms. Mace said she felt like crying in the voting booth, and tears welled up in her eyes as she spoke. “I don’t really know how to explain it,” she said. “It’s because I can do it” — MANNY FERNANDEZ |
| LAS VEGAS — In the swing state of Nevada, where elections often hinge on turning out the vote in Las Vegas, the Culinary Workers Union has the biggest and most powerful ground operation. The 57,000 members, mostly women and Spanish-speaking immigrants, are overwhelmingly motivated this year by their dislike of Mr. Trump, with whom they have been in a union dispute for more than a year. | |
| “For me this is a personal fight,” Geoconda Arguello, the leader of Local 226 here, shouted as she stood before more than 400 members as they prepared to spend the day knocking on doors and driving members to the polls. “I came from Nicaragua with nothing,” she said. “I came to this country because I knew it was where the law and people were respected. We’re not going to let Trump come and change it.” — DAVE PHILIPPS | |
| KING COUNTY, Wash. — Here in the most populous vote-by-mail county in the nation, the technology of sorting ballots, verifying signatures and recording votes was moving at a high-tech blur. Anjali Phillips is a temp worker in the bottleneck of the operation, where human touch still matters: She pulls each ballot from its envelope. The work is repetitive, to say the least, with the 100 openers going through 90,000 ballots on a busy day. | KING COUNTY, Wash. — Here in the most populous vote-by-mail county in the nation, the technology of sorting ballots, verifying signatures and recording votes was moving at a high-tech blur. Anjali Phillips is a temp worker in the bottleneck of the operation, where human touch still matters: She pulls each ballot from its envelope. The work is repetitive, to say the least, with the 100 openers going through 90,000 ballots on a busy day. |
| But the work is also exciting in its way, she said, a glimpse at the voices of voters, recorded in the little black-ink ballot ovals. “It might not be interesting to other people,” Ms. Phillips said. “But I enjoy it,” she added. “It makes you appreciate the value of each vote.” — KIRK JOHNSON | But the work is also exciting in its way, she said, a glimpse at the voices of voters, recorded in the little black-ink ballot ovals. “It might not be interesting to other people,” Ms. Phillips said. “But I enjoy it,” she added. “It makes you appreciate the value of each vote.” — KIRK JOHNSON |
| RIVERTON, Utah — In the conservative suburbs south of Salt Lake City, Jared and Melanie Steere squished together on the sofa with their four kids to read from the Book of Mormon, had a breakfast of fresh-baked apple-carrot muffins, and then set out to send a rebuke to the Republican candidate for president. | RIVERTON, Utah — In the conservative suburbs south of Salt Lake City, Jared and Melanie Steere squished together on the sofa with their four kids to read from the Book of Mormon, had a breakfast of fresh-baked apple-carrot muffins, and then set out to send a rebuke to the Republican candidate for president. |
| Mr. Steere, 41, had supported Republican candidates all his life – an old Bush sticker is on his high-school yearbook. But this year, the family’s home is adorned with four signs for Evan McMullin, a long-shot conservative independent running for president. His Mormon background and anti-Trump stance has given him a devoted following among many disenchanted Utah Republicans. | Mr. Steere, 41, had supported Republican candidates all his life – an old Bush sticker is on his high-school yearbook. But this year, the family’s home is adorned with four signs for Evan McMullin, a long-shot conservative independent running for president. His Mormon background and anti-Trump stance has given him a devoted following among many disenchanted Utah Republicans. |
| “Technically I’m still a Republican — but I’m not,” Mr. Steere said as he stood outside his home on Tuesday morning. “This doesn’t look or feel like me anymore.” — JACK HEALY | “Technically I’m still a Republican — but I’m not,” Mr. Steere said as he stood outside his home on Tuesday morning. “This doesn’t look or feel like me anymore.” — JACK HEALY |
| PHILADELPHIA — Leroy Caple woke up at 5 a.m. on Election Day in the Philadelphia recovery house where he has lived for the past four months, with a busy day of therapy sessions ahead. But Mr. Caple, 59, a disabled maintenance worker who has struggled with alcoholism for 32 years, has never missed an election, and he certainly wasn’t going to sit out this one – not with Mr. Trump on the ballot. | PHILADELPHIA — Leroy Caple woke up at 5 a.m. on Election Day in the Philadelphia recovery house where he has lived for the past four months, with a busy day of therapy sessions ahead. But Mr. Caple, 59, a disabled maintenance worker who has struggled with alcoholism for 32 years, has never missed an election, and he certainly wasn’t going to sit out this one – not with Mr. Trump on the ballot. |
| “I don’t like nothing he stands for,” Mr. Caple said. | “I don’t like nothing he stands for,” Mr. Caple said. |
| Philadelphia is Clinton territory – there are seven times as many registered Democrats as Republicans here. Mantua, one of the most blighted neighborhoods in the city, is a tight-knit community on the other side of the railroad tracks from downtown. Dewayne Drummond, 36, the local Democratic ward leader, was at the polls early, handing out sample ballot cards with Mrs. Clinton’s name on top. “It’s going to be like this all day,” he said, watching the line as it grew. | Philadelphia is Clinton territory – there are seven times as many registered Democrats as Republicans here. Mantua, one of the most blighted neighborhoods in the city, is a tight-knit community on the other side of the railroad tracks from downtown. Dewayne Drummond, 36, the local Democratic ward leader, was at the polls early, handing out sample ballot cards with Mrs. Clinton’s name on top. “It’s going to be like this all day,” he said, watching the line as it grew. |
| So it was a surprise, at around 8 a.m. Tuesday, when a local man everyone calls “Bird” showed up with sample Republican ballots bearing Mr. Trump’s name. There was confusion, and a minor kerfuffle, as some voters threw the Trump ballots into the trash; one crumpled up her ballot and tossed it at the man, who gave up and left. | So it was a surprise, at around 8 a.m. Tuesday, when a local man everyone calls “Bird” showed up with sample Republican ballots bearing Mr. Trump’s name. There was confusion, and a minor kerfuffle, as some voters threw the Trump ballots into the trash; one crumpled up her ballot and tossed it at the man, who gave up and left. |
| Through it all, Mr. Caple was feeling good. | Through it all, Mr. Caple was feeling good. |
| “I’m wonderful,” he said after casting his ballot. “One hundred fifteen days without a drink. I’m here, and my vote matters.” — SHERYL GAY STOLBERG | “I’m wonderful,” he said after casting his ballot. “One hundred fifteen days without a drink. I’m here, and my vote matters.” — SHERYL GAY STOLBERG |
| HOUSTON — For decades, Election Day was a time of mixed emotions for Myriam Marin, an engineer at a global company. She came to the United States 35 years ago from Argentina, and because she was not a citizen she never voted. She felt guilty. | HOUSTON — For decades, Election Day was a time of mixed emotions for Myriam Marin, an engineer at a global company. She came to the United States 35 years ago from Argentina, and because she was not a citizen she never voted. She felt guilty. |
| “I didn’t become a citizen, by choice, until Obama,” Ms. Marin said. “I just wasn’t ready. I didn’t want to become a citizen just because it gave me certain benefits. I didn’t feel patriotic enough. I didn’t feel like I belonged here.” | “I didn’t become a citizen, by choice, until Obama,” Ms. Marin said. “I just wasn’t ready. I didn’t want to become a citizen just because it gave me certain benefits. I didn’t feel patriotic enough. I didn’t feel like I belonged here.” |
| She voted for Mrs. Clinton, and said later that said it felt good not to feel guilty on Election Day. But she also found it hard to feel the same patriotism she felt in 2008. “I had lots of terrible arguments with family and friends,” she said. “I think this whole thing was a mess.” — MANNY FERNANDEZ | |
| ZEBULON, N.C. — Robert Richardson walked out of a county government building in this small town east of Raleigh with his “I Voted” sticker, and its stylized American flag, affixed upside down on his camel-colored work coat. He put it on that way on purpose, he said, as a universal sign of distress. | ZEBULON, N.C. — Robert Richardson walked out of a county government building in this small town east of Raleigh with his “I Voted” sticker, and its stylized American flag, affixed upside down on his camel-colored work coat. He put it on that way on purpose, he said, as a universal sign of distress. |
| Race relations in 2016, Mr. Richardson said, are “the worst I’ve ever seen them.” Muslim refugees, he said, are coming to the country “unvetted and uninoculated,” and he wondered if it was part of a Muslim plot to take over the world. He thought the billionaire activist George Soros might be inciting the violence at Trump rallies. Democrats like Donna Brazile seemed to be blatantly cheating this election season, he said. | Race relations in 2016, Mr. Richardson said, are “the worst I’ve ever seen them.” Muslim refugees, he said, are coming to the country “unvetted and uninoculated,” and he wondered if it was part of a Muslim plot to take over the world. He thought the billionaire activist George Soros might be inciting the violence at Trump rallies. Democrats like Donna Brazile seemed to be blatantly cheating this election season, he said. |
| It felt as if the fix was in in America in 2016. “I think it’s already been rigged and the people out here’s been just going through the motions,” he said, nodding toward his polling place. | It felt as if the fix was in in America in 2016. “I think it’s already been rigged and the people out here’s been just going through the motions,” he said, nodding toward his polling place. |
| But like millions of worried, anxious Americans, he voted. Mr. Richardson, 56, a white Southern Baptist, owned a flooring company for decades until the recession dried up the work. He closed it in 2010. He said he was a registered Democrat his whole life until this year, when he switched to the Republican party. | But like millions of worried, anxious Americans, he voted. Mr. Richardson, 56, a white Southern Baptist, owned a flooring company for decades until the recession dried up the work. He closed it in 2010. He said he was a registered Democrat his whole life until this year, when he switched to the Republican party. |
| He voted for all of the Republicans on the ticket, including Mr. Trump. Political correctness, he said, and the Democrats’ focus on social issues — like whether transgender people should be allowed to use the bathroom of their choice, a big issue in North Carolina this year — seemed to him like a calculated diversion from matters of substance. | He voted for all of the Republicans on the ticket, including Mr. Trump. Political correctness, he said, and the Democrats’ focus on social issues — like whether transgender people should be allowed to use the bathroom of their choice, a big issue in North Carolina this year — seemed to him like a calculated diversion from matters of substance. |
| “I think this will be our last chance to get somebody in there to shake it up enough to get people to pay attention,” he said. — RICHARD FAUSSET | “I think this will be our last chance to get somebody in there to shake it up enough to get people to pay attention,” he said. — RICHARD FAUSSET |
| PHILADELPHIA — Shakye Jones and Olivia Kirby, black women who are both 24, study public health at Drexel here. Both are Bernie Sanders backers, but they turned out for Mrs. Clinton. | PHILADELPHIA — Shakye Jones and Olivia Kirby, black women who are both 24, study public health at Drexel here. Both are Bernie Sanders backers, but they turned out for Mrs. Clinton. |
| “It’s trying to actually be happy about a woman, as opposed to thinking about what I don’t really want in a president,” Ms. Jones said. | “It’s trying to actually be happy about a woman, as opposed to thinking about what I don’t really want in a president,” Ms. Jones said. |
| Some of her friends were planning to stay home, which she finds outrageous. Voting, she said, “is something people died for.” — SHERYL GAY STOLBERG | Some of her friends were planning to stay home, which she finds outrageous. Voting, she said, “is something people died for.” — SHERYL GAY STOLBERG |
| CHICAGO — Sweat gleaming across her forehead, Novella Lott rushed up to a polling place on the Near West Side looking frantic. | |
| She was on her lunch break from her job at a company in the Loop that provides caregivers for the elderly and ill, and had taken the #60 bus to race out to vote. Now she was worried there might be some mix-up with her registration – would it be at her old address or here? And what about the lines she had heard about on television? | |
| “I’m not going to skip this!” said Ms. Lott, 57, who wore a royal-blue business suit and running sneakers. “No! No! No! I don’t care if I’m late getting back from lunch. They’ll have to wait. I’m coming one way or another.” | |
| She said: “It’s all been in the dirt, this whole campaign. I’ve been doing a lot of praying about it. A lot of praying. I’m voting for Hillary, but I put my trust in God.” | |
| — MONICA DAVEY |