Mitt Romney has cast his ballot in the U.S. presidential election.
Asked who he voted for, Romney replied, "I think you know."
The Republican challenger still has campaign rallies Tuesday in the crucial battleground state of Ohio and neighboring Pennsylvania.
Romney's wife, Ann, was at his side when the pair cast their ballots near their Massachusetts home. Romney will return to Boston on Tuesday night for an Election Day reception.
Earlier on Tuesday, the first polls have opened on the US east coast as one of the
closest Presidential elections in history goes down to the wire.
At 11:00 AM GMT (1:00 PM Beirut time) polling stations opened in 9
US States.
At least 120 million Americans
are expected to vote on giving Obama a second term or replacing him with
Romney. Their decision will set the country's course for four years on
spending, taxes, healthcare and foreign policy challenges like the rise
of China and Iran's nuclear ambitions.
National
opinion polls show Obama and Romney in a virtual dead heat, although
the Democratic incumbent has a slight advantage in several vital swing
states - most notably Ohio - that could give him the 270 electoral votes
he needs to win.
Romney, the
multimillionaire former head of a private equity fund, would be the
first Mormon president and one of the wealthiest Americans to occupy the
White House.
Obama, the first black president, is vying to be the first
Democrat to win a second term since Bill Clinton in 1996.
Fueled
by record spending on negative ads, the battle between the two men was
focused primarily on the lagging economic recovery and persistent high
unemployment, but at times it turned personal.
Polls
will begin to close in Indiana and Kentucky at 6 p.m. ESTon Tuesday,
with voting ending across the country over the next six hours.
The
first results, by tradition, were tallied in Dixville Notch and Hart's
Location, New Hampshire, shortly after midnight . Obama and Romney each
received five votes in Dixville Notch. In Hart's Location, Obama got 23
votes to 9 votes for Romney and two votes for Libertarian candidate Gary
Johnson.
Voting the latest challenge for superstorm victims:
Voting in a the U.S. presidential election was the latest challenge for the hundreds of thousands of people in the New York-New Jersey area still affected by Superstorm Sandy, as they struggled to get to non-damaged polling places to cast their ballots in one of the tightest elections in recent history.
Tens of thousands of people along the Atlantic coast, many of them in public housing projects, continued to scramble for housing options a week after the storm as nighttime temperatures remained near freezing and power had not yet returned. A few desperate people burned their furniture.
And officials despaired at the news of yet another storm approaching the region Wednesday, smaller than Sandy but with the potential for more power outages, rising waters, heavy rain and gusts of up to 60 mph (96 kph).
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