Election 2026 live updates: Americans cast their votes

North Carolina's State Board of Elections Executive Director Sam Hayes told reporters at an Election Day press conference that the board will meet Tuesday afternoon to discuss whether to extend voting hours in Hertford, Gates, Wilson and Lenoir counties due to "minor delays."

The delays "are due to various technical issues. The State Board will be meeting today at 2 p.m. to consider extensions in these counties," said Hayes.

"It is not unusual for the State Board to extend voting hours beyond 7:30 p.m. if a disruption at a polling place causes a stoppage of voting," Hayes added.

Deputy Director of Elections Administration Parker Holland told reporters that issues included "varying items such as a printer jam" and "an issue with a poll book," adding "those issues have since been resolved."

"We also have our secondary procedures that we go to in the event this happens, such as pulling out our manual poll books to make sure we're serving the voters," Holland said.

-ABC News' Halle Troadec

Election officials in several key states like Florida, Arizona and Utah are exercising contingency plans for extreme weather on Tuesday, in some cases asking voters to visit different polling locations to cast their ballots.

Unpredictable weather features in every election to varying degrees, and planning for those conditions is a core responsibility of state and local election officials.

"Every election official in the country has a continuity of operations plan,” said Lawrence Norden, a voting expert at the Brennan Center for Justice. “We have 50 different states with different rules and different ways to run elections and 10,000 election jurisdictions across those states. So everybody has a different plan, but everybody has a plan.”

In Florida, state election officials are encouraging voters to check the state elections website "for possible polling place changes" amid heavy flash flooding. More than a dozen polling sites in Port St. Lucie and Brevard Counties have been relocated.

In Utah, Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson declared a state of emergency that will allow those isolated by floodwaters in that state to request and return ballots electronically, according to a statement.

In Arizona, Gov. Katie Hobbs declared a state of emergency that will "unlock critical funding and state resources for communities impacted by recent severe storms and flash flooding," according to her declaration, including $200,000 in emergency funding to help with debris removal from roads. The state’s top election official said only one polling site in Navajo County was closed Tuesday morning, and that the site is now active.

Extreme weather is hitting states across the south and Midwest on Tuesday, including Iowa, Texas, Kansas and Colorado.

-ABC News’ Isabel Danzis, Laura Romero and Beatrice Peterson

Michigan Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers cast his vote Tuesday morning in the outer Detroit suburb of White Oak, Michigan, in Oakland County.

Asked how this election felt different than the Senate race in 2024, which he lost to Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Rogers answered: "This time, I'm going to win."

Rogers was asked about the Democrats’ reaction to his surprise endorsement over the weekend by Democratic Rep. Hayley Stevens, who lost the state's primary to U.S. Senate nominee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.

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Michigan Republican US Senate candidate Mike Rogers casts ballotMichigan Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers cast his vote Tuesday morning in the outer Detroit suburb of White Oak, Michigan, in Oakland County.

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"I'm disappointed in how vicious they've been. But I think that speaks to who the modern Democrat Party is," Rogers said.

He was also asked if Stevens would appear at his campaign party Tuesday night.

"We have not spoken directly about her coming to the event. She'd be absolutely welcome at the event,” Rogers responded.

-ABC News’ Diana Paulsen

Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tasked with retaking the House, tells ABC News she is "confident" but "ready for anything" this Election Day.

"I am confident we will take back the majority, but I am going to have my radar up," she told ABC News in a phone interview Tuesday morning.

"My mantra is 'be ready for anything' this entire cycle, and we are going to be ready today and after the election again to make sure every legal vote is counted," she said, pointing to the Trump administration's election-related lawsuits around mail-in ballots and threats made against local election officials.

DelBene said she will be watching House races in Virginia and Kentucky early in the night to see what to expect across the country and predicted that GOP redistricting efforts would hurt the Republican Party.

"I think we're going to see the impact of that backfiring in places like Texas 28 with Henry Cuellar," she said. "I also look at Ohio 9 and Marcy Kaptur, or Florida 14 with Kathy Castor or Don Davis in North Carolina [1st district]. I think that not only will this show that these efforts have backfired, but I would also say that this should be a warning to Republicans if they go down this path again in 2028."

-ABC News' Ben Siegel