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Who - and what - are the US electorate looking for online?

According to Google Trends, Clinton and Trump are roughly tied, with him just slightly in the lead. Both have huge volumes of searches.

In the past few hours, searches for Trump have overtaken Clinton's in 11 states: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.

Clinton, on the other hand, has overtaken Trump in Alaska, Georgia, Hawaii and Vermont.

Maybe those people are looking for last-minute information to help them decide who to vote for. But once their decision is made, they may well have more problems.

The website Electionland has put together an interactive map of where people are searching for issues with voting, external. Search interest for long lines is highest in Georgia, it says, at almost five times the national average.

Rhode Island and Pennsylvania have the most searches about voting machine problems.

And the top trending election process-related questions are:

1) Can I vote in person if I registered to vote by mail?

2) Can I vote at a different polling place?

3) Can I turn in my mail in ballot at a polling place?

4) Can I vote anywhere in California?

5) Can I vote in person instead of by mail?

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Both Trump and Clinton are holding their so-called victory rallies in New York City this evening.

The BBC's Nada Tawfik, external and Nick Bryant, external are at the Javits Center, external in Midtown Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighbourhood, where they have just spoken to Clinton's campaign manager.

Trump's rally will be held less than two miles away at the Midtown Hilton, and is "invitation-only for friends and supporters of the Trump-Pence campaign".

Clinton will be speaking symbolically beneath a literal glass ceiling, external, in case you haven't noticed. 

James Cook
BBC's North America Correspondent

Mr Crites also rejected accusations made online that he was sent into the Donald Trump rally in Reno as a paid operative of the Democratic Party.

The 33-year-old businessman said he was knocked to the ground and assaulted by Mr Trump's supporters after raising a "Republicans against Trump" sign near the stage at the event.

Mr Crites, who was was released without charge after questioning, said he had been a registered Republican for about six years and was voting for Republicans for both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

He said he had carried out "three hours" worth of campaigning for Hillary Clinton during the presidential election and had donated money to her campaign as he thought that Mr Trump was "dangerous.”

But, he said, he had also donated money to Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz during the primary season and, later, to Evan McMullin.

He said he had eventually, and reluctantly, decided to support Mrs Clinton as he regarded her as the only way to stop the property tycoon from becoming president.

The BBC's Jonathan Csapo did the maths.

Barack Obama's 2008 campaign was the longest in recent memory, lasting a whopping 632 days after the junior senator from Illinois declared his candidacy in February 2007.

It has been 575 days since Hillary Clinton formally announced her candidacy after months of teasing the public.

Donald Trump's campaign is a mere 510 days old.

James Cook
BBC North America correspondent

A man who says he was attacked while protesting at a Donald Trump rally in Nevada has vehemently denied that he has engaged in voting fraud.

Austyn Crites, 33, made headlines when he was escorted out of the Trump rally in Reno last week and Mr Trump was briefly rushed off the stage by secret service agents.

Mr Crites told the BBC he was horrified to see Fox News repeat a claim being made online that his address had been used to cast a vote for his “dead” grandmother.

In fact, he said, “both of my grandmothers are still alive."

Mr Crites said he was shocked to hear the conservative TV network repeating the claim as fact without even contacting him to check.

He said it showed “disregard for journalism and just being a decent human being.”

On his show on Fox News, Brian Kilmeade said Mr Crites' "grandmother has been using this address to vote absentee for years, but she’s been dead since 2002".

Mr Crites said he understood that the network “may be supporting a particular candidate” but he said its journalists should "at least do your homework”.

Franz Strasser, external has been talking to voters coming out to the polls in South Tampa and Plant City, Florida.

He's finding a pretty even split between which candidate the locals are supporting.

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Russian state TV has been under attack from social media users after it put a clock on screen counting down to the end of the US presidential election, BBC Monitoring reports. 

The countdown on news channel Rossiya 24 began in the small hours and continued for several hours as the presenters on the rolling news channel reported on the US election and other stories. And so it continued for several hours until some Facebook users began to pass comment.

"I can't imagine a countdown on American TV for an election in Russia," wrote journalist Elena Rykovtseva, external, who is the Moscow-based media observer for US-funded Radio Liberty.

It didn't take long for Rossiya 24 to react. The countdown clock disappeared and only returned for reports about the US election itself, not for other stories.

New York's Mayor Bill de Blasio says today's election will be one to remember - but he would not be surprised if Trump hesitates to concede the election to Clinton.

Of course, we're a long way from that yet. And we don't yet know who's going to win.

But here's why Mr de Blasio said that: In the final TV debate between the candidates last month, Trump would not commit to accepting the result.

It was part of his assertions that the vote was rigged.

Mr de Blasio said: "Given what he's said so far, I'm not going to be surprised if he hesitates even if the results are clear for Hillary.

"I think emotionally it's going to be very tough for him to acknowledge defeat. But in a way I think his constant changing of his message, sometimes saying the election is rigged and other times saying it's not, depending on the poll numbers, has invalidated that argument.

"If he hesitates, it will simply be, I think, a negative for him."

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Read more:

What happens if Trump refuses to accept defeat?

Trump says the election's rigged - is it?

BBC Newsnight

The BBC has correspondents all across America tonight.

For the latest in Ohio follow Barbara Plett Usher, external.

Rajini Vaidyanathan, external is in Florida speaking to voters in America's most swinging county.

Jane O'Brien, external is in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American democracy.

"We need jobs because our jobs are being stolen like never before," Trump said when asked about how to heal a divided country in a phone interview with Fox News. He added that it was "unbelievable" how many factories had closed in the past 15 years.  

"I have to look at what's happening," Trump said, when asked if he thought the election would not end tonight.

"There is something that is really nice about the old paper ballot system. Maybe it takes a lot longer but there's something awfully nice about the old system. You don't worry about hacking. You don't worry about all of the problems that you're seeing."

Hear what he had to say:

The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan, external is in Florida, one of the most valuable swing states with 29 electoral college votes up for grabs.

She's been talking to voters about which candidate they prefer.

The Nevada judge has rejected an emergency lawsuit by Donald Trump who is suing to isolate early voting ballots from four voting locations.

Team Trump has been complaining that local officials kept polling stations open after closing times in order to allow more voters from a Hispanic area.

The Trump campaign team sought to discover the names of the specific poll workers that allowed the location to remain open, claiming that the Clark County employees engaged in "illegal activity.".

An enthusiast Eric Trump tweeted a photo of his New York ballot writing "It is in an incredible honor to vote for my father! He will do such a great job for the U.S.A.! #MakeAmericaGreatAgain".

But several people are criticising him because broadcasting an image of your ballot inside a polling place.... is against state law!

But lawyers tell the NY Post, external, that it's not very likely that he'll be punished. If he is, it will be a $1,000 (£806) fine. 

The BBC's Anna Bressanin, external has been finding voting running pretty smoothly in Brooklyn, NYC.

There was some earlier confusion about voters being asked to show ID, which isn't necessary in the state. But election monitors clarified that it is needed for first-time voters.

Russian state TV says the unpopularity of both Trump and Clinton means a "bad start" for the winner. 

Dave Lee
North America technology reporter

The Charlotte Observer reports, external that electronic voting systems have been causing problems in North Carolina.

Several NC counties - Cleveland, Gates, Orange, Cumberland, Wake, Craven and Forsyth - said election officials were having issues checking people in to vote.

The North Carolina State Board of Elections has told the counties to revert to paper-based voting systems. 

According to ProPublica, external, which is working with local press across the country, sporadic voting machine problems have also been reported in New York, Illinois, Kentucky, Texas and Ohio.

But that’s mostly business as usual in a vote of this scale.

David Becker, from the Center for Election Innovation and Research, dampens any suggestion of foul play. Out of approximately 100,000 voting machines across the US, it’s only natural a few of them will malfunction, he says. Many of them are over 10 years old.

Paper ballots seem like a simple, elegant solution - but remarkably, even that low-tech is causing issues. 

In Michigan, where voters must fill in a paper form before being given their ballot paper, voters have been complaining about - wait for it - a lack of pens. 

A Nevada district court is hearing arguments for the lawsuit between the Trump campaign and the county registrar in Nevada for keeping polling stations open late on an early voting day. 

It accuses Joe P Gloria, the Clark County registrar of voters, of keeping polling locations open "two hours beyond the designated closing time".

A local news station is broadcasting the court room hearing live, external.

Hillsborough County in Florida has picked the presidential winner in 11 of the last 12 contests. 

The make-up of the community, which surrounds the city of Tampa, reflects that of the nation as a whole. 

 The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan, external talked to voters there to find out which way it may go in 2016.