In-person voting has begun in a handful of states as the United States mid term elections get underway.
The first polling stations opened in Vermont at 5 am local time and across the east coast, including in Connecticut, Maine, New York, New Jersey, and parts of Kentucky and Indiana an hour later.
Polls in Ohio, North Carolina and West Virginia are set to open at 6:30 am local time, while voting in 14 more states is set to get underway at 7 am.
Centres in every state, plus Washington, D.C., are to be open by midday.
Millions of Americans are voting to decide who will control Congress for the final two years of Donald Trump’s presidency.
All 435 seats in the House; 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate; and some state-level offices, including governorships, are up for grabs.
