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Protesters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - where vote counting is still ongoing - held a protest today.

"Our communities count," read some signs. "Count every vote," read others.

One day out from the election, we're now seeing small protests popping up in other major cities, including Detroit, Michigan (another swing state) and Washington DC.

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CNN is projecting that Biden will win the state of Michigan. The BBC is waiting for more votes to be counted.

A victory here for Biden would mean an added 16 electoral votes - an important boost for the Democrat on the road to the White House.

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Biden insists that "every vote must be counted", as Republicans mount legal challenges in some key states.

"No one is going to take our democracy away from us," he says, flanked by running mate Kamala Harris.

Biden then vows to be a president for all Americans - a theme of his campaign.

"There will be no red states and blue states when we win," he says. "Just the United States of America."

While not declaring victory, as the remaining votes are counted, Biden says he is confident he will clinch the presidency.

"Now, after a long night of counting, it's clear," he says.

"I'm not here to declare that we've won," he continues.

"But I am here to report, when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners."

Biden also highlights the historical voter turnout this year, saying that he and running mate Kamala Harris are on track to win more votes than any ticket in the history of this country has ever done.

Biden has just taken the stage for a speech in Delaware that advisers have characterised as "an update" on the race.

He's not expected to declare victory, as votes are still being counted and he has not hit the necessary 270 electoral colleges votes.

Jane O'Brien
BBC News, Washington DC

New England may be one of the last bastions of moderate Republicanism in a country that has become intensely polarised.

In Maine, the Republican Senator Susan Collins has been re-elected for a fifth term even though the state delivered three of its four Electoral College votes to Joe Biden.

Senator Collins was attacked from all sides in the most expensive campaign in Maine’s history – by Democrats who spent millions of dollars trying to unseat her, and by some fellow Republicans who opposed President Trump and wanted to punish her for supporting some of his actions.

In 2018, for instance, she delivered the deciding vote for Brett Kavanaugh, which clinched his nomination to the Supreme Court.

She ran on a platform that emphasised her work for Mainers rather than national politics, but the polls suggested her political career was at an end.

However, New Englanders have a long tradition of splitting the ballot – voting for candidates from different parties in the same election - and may have done so again.

In neighbouring New Hampshire, Republican Governor Chris Sununu also kept his job even though the state voted for Joe Biden.

And in deep blue Vermont and Massachusetts, Republican governors also enjoy popular support.

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In the US election, voters decide state-level contests rather than an overall, single, national one.

This race is still too close.

Donald Trump is projected to have won important states such as Florida, Ohio and Texas - but he will need to win several more key states to secure four more years. Biden still has several paths to victory, but none is guaranteed.

Here are the crunch states that have yet to declare results:

• Arizona: Traditionally Republican but a key battleground this year. Biden is ahead with 86% of the vote counted and some US networks have projected victory for him already. We aren't able to do this yet
• Georgia: Another traditionally Republican state that has become a tight race this year. Trump is narrowly ahead at the moment, but ballots in Atlanta and the surrounding suburbs are still being counted
• North Carolina: The margin is narrowing in this competitive swing state. With 95% of the vote in, Trump is ahead with 50.1% to Biden’s 48.7%
• Nevada: Biden is facing a tougher-than-expected fight here. He currently has a razor-thin lead
• Wisconsin: A major Midwestern battleground, it backed Democrats for over two decades before opting for Trump in 2016. Here, Biden has a narrow lead with almost all votes counted - but the Trump camp has already said they want a recount
• Michigan: The rivals are pretty much neck-and-neck here, with a slim Biden lead, but many ballots in Democrat-leaning populated areas, like Detroit, are yet to be counted
• Pennsylvania: With 20 electoral college votes, it's a major political battleground. Trump has a significant lead, but a huge number of mail-in ballots are yet to be counted and a result is not expected until Friday. Legal challenges from the Republicans loom over the result here

We've been asking our readers for their most pressing questions about the US election. Now it's our turn to respond.

Penny Reid, from Northumberland, UK, asks: Who are the members of the electoral college, how are they chosen and how long do they serve in the role?

The members of the electoral college are usually nominated by the Republican and Democratic parties for each election.

There are different rules for nominating them in each state, and they are officially selected on polling day.

The college members - known as electors - often have connections in the US political parties, like activists or former politicians.

Bill Clinton was a Democratic elector in 2016, and Donald Trump Junior was put forward by the Republicans.

And if you want to learn more about this project - or send in a question of your own - click here.

Steven Rosenberg
Moscow correspondent

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"The sinking superpower."

That’s how one Russian MP, Vyacheslav Nikonov, described post-election America in today’s Komsomolskaya Pravda paper.

A Russian senator I spoke too raised the spectre of "civil war in a country with nuclear weapons".

There are some people in power in Russia who regard American chaos, disorder and confusion as benefiting Moscow.

They view geo-politics as a zero-sum game, believing that if your opponent is weak, you’re strong. There’s also an element here of ‘tables being turned’: so often has the West criticised the state of Russian democracy - now it’s the cracks in American democracy which are making headlines.

What’s more, there is a widespread belief in Moscow that an America in crisis will have less time to think about imposing more sanctions on Russia.

Not everyone believes that.

Some in Russia’s political and diplomatic elite believe Russia gains more, politically and economically, from a stable United States and that only a strong US president would be in a position to repair relations with Russia.

Donald Trump's campaign says it is suing to halt vote count in the crucial state of Pennsylvania.

It is also mounting legal challenges in Michigan and Wisconsin.

The campaign accuses Democrat officials of forcing observers to stay 25 feet or more from the counting process, "leaving no meaningful way whatsoever for our observers to do their jobs".

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The Republicans look set to retain control of the US Senate, one of the other big contests of the night.

Both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Trump ally Lindsey Graham were re-elected in their seats of Kentucky and South Carolina respectively. In Alabama, Republican candidate Tommy Tuberville defeated the Democratic incumbent, Doug Jones.

The Democrats did gain a seat in Colorado, with former governor John Hickenlooper defeating Republican incumbent Cory Gardner, and also in Arizona, where a former astronaut - Mark Kelly - defeated a former fighter pilot - Republican Martha McSally.

Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the upper chamber of Congress, meaning the Democrats have been seeking a net gain of four seats.

Among the other candidates for Senate this year a pastor, an astronaut, and a football coach.

The Democrats are also fighting to keep control of the House of Representatives, which is on course to remain in Democratic hands.

One day after automated phone calls cropped up in parts of the US telling residents to stay home on election day, Michigan's top election official said that the effort did not seem to deter voters in her swing state.

Despite the calls, some of which told people the wrong date for election day, Michigan saw record turnout reported in districts around "the wolverine state", according to Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.

"It's really gratifying," that the public did not take the misinformation bait, she added.

Read more:

Mystery robocalls urge voters to 'stay home'

Maine is projected to vote for Biden as is Maine's 1st District, giving him three more electoral colleges votes.

He now has a total of 227, but needs to hit 270 to win it all.

Trump is projected to hold Maine's 2nd District, which gives him one additional Electoral college vote for a total of 214.

After voting Democrat in every race since 1992, Maine's electoral college votes were split in the last election, granting three votes to Hillary Clinton and one to Trump.

Moderate Republican Senator Susan Collins will hold her Maine Senate seat, in a blow to Democrats that saw her ouster as a chance to take control of Congress' upper chamber.

Collins has at times been willing to buck the party line under the Trump presidency, and earlier in her 24 years in the Senate, she occasionally crossed the aisle to support Barack Obama's legislation.

She told supporter that her opponent Sara Gideon had called to concede, and said today's verdict proves that she was an effective lawmaker for "all" of Maine's residents.

"I feel that this is an affirmation of the work that I'm doing in Washington to fight hard every day for the people of Maine," she told the crowd.

CNN, CBS, Fox and the Associated Press are projecting Biden has won the state of Wisconsin. The BBC is waiting for more votes to be counted.

The US election has been the subject of dedicated special coverage on media outlets around the world despite there still not being a clear result.

BBC Monitoring takes a look at how this uncertain outcome is being seen in different parts of the world.

Christopher Giles
BBC Reality Check

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A map of voting in Michigan from earlier in the night - which shows a sudden increase of around 130,000 votes for Joe Biden, but none for Donald Trump - has gone viral on social media.

President Trump has tweeted the image, which is raising speculation about voter fraud.

It’s commonplace that state authorities will add a big chunk of votes to a tally at once.

But social media users were questioning why in this update Trump didn’t have any votes added to his tally.

Decision Desk, the election monitoring website which created the map, said: “It was a simple error from a file created by the state that we ingested… the state noticed the error and produced an updated count.”

The spokesperson added: “This sort of thing can happen on election night and we expect other vote tabulators in Michigan experienced this error and corrected in real-time like we did.”

Twitter has added labels to the tweets saying: “Some or all of the content shared in this tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process.”

When we contacted them, Michigan’s Bureau of Elections said they didn’t have a comment on the data discrepancy but said the results were at this stage “unofficial” and not the final count.

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America reporter

It's the day after the US presidential election, and a winner is still far from decided. As the ballots from more than 160 million Americans continue to be counted, however, a picture is starting to come into focus.

Donald Trump has already falsely declared victory and accused his opponents of committing electoral fraud. He's fired off a series of tweets - flagged as disputed and misleading - claiming his opponents are fabricating votes. This is, however, simply not the case at this point. There are still millions of legally cast ballots in the process of being counted.

The national race is boiling down to just a handful of states: Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Read what the candidates need to happen in order to win the White House here.

Angelica Casas
Video journalist, BBC News

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If Democrats have learned anything from the results of the election so far is that they can no longer take the Latino vote for granted.

Yes, Latinos in the US still lean Democrat - by 67% in 2020 - but their support for Republicans has steadily increased in the last years.

That helped lead President Donald Trump to a victory in Florida, home to a large Cuban-American population, and it prevented Texas from turning blue.

Latino support for Trump may seem ironic given the president’s policies towards immigrants and rhetoric against this community- but that’s why it’s fundamental to recognise that this demographic is not a monolith.

Latinos in the US come from different countries and some have been here for generations.

Coupled with other factors like education, religion and class, this means the issues that are important to them also vary - and long gone are the days when you could use the issue of immigration alone to pander to them. That made outreach this election all the more important.

Trump spoke to Latinos, using the economy and fear some have of socialism to make a case against Biden. Biden might not have done the outreach early enough, with the exception of Arizona, which he flipped after spending big on TV ads early on, and with the help of local grassroots organisations.

We talked to first-time Latino voters on why they were voting for Trump or Biden. Click here to see what they had to say.

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Pennsylvania election officials say 13 postal ballots were discovered at a processing facility by officials undergoing a last-minute sweep of post offices in the state.

The inspection had been ordered in about a dozen states by federal Judge Emmet Sullivan yesterday.

His ruling came after the US Post Office said about 300,000 mail-in ballots had been received by them but were not able to be traced to their destination at an election office.

It also came after civil rights groups sued the post office over shipment delays, which they argue were done deliberately to sabotage postal voting to aid Republicans. Officials insist cost-saving measures led to the delay.

Postal inspectors were given until yesterday afternoon to complete the sweeps at 12 postal districts, including the swing states states of Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Texas and Wisconsin.

Postal officials said yesterday they would be unable to complete the checks by the end of the day because it would interfere with normal election activities.

Judge Sullivan has scheduled a court hearing for Wednesday to "discuss the apparent lack of compliance".