Voters wait in line at a polling place located inside a shopping mall in Austin, Texas.

The first Election Day voter of the morning enters Springhill School in Belgrade, Montana. Springhill School is the polling station for Precinct 17, a place where ranchers, affluent professionals and retirees alike live and vote.

Mitt Romney and wife Ann Romney vote in Belmont, Massachusetts

President Obama calls to thank volunteers in Wisconsin, at a campaign office call center the morning of the 2012 election, in Chicago.

Volunteers for Obama's re-election campaign place phone calls to voters and other volunteers at a field office on the south side of Chicago on election day.

Poll workers helps voters in a dark and unheated tent serving as a polling site on Staten Island, New York. The original polling site, a school, was damaged by Superstorm Sandy.

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan and presidential candidate Mitt Romney leave a campaign plane in Cleveland, Ohio, November 6, 2012.

Voters outside a polling place in Arlington County, Virginia. (Dimitris Manis/VOA)

A sign erected by a community group called Rebuild Rockaway shows voting locations in the Rockaway neighborhoods in Queens, New York.

A voter adjusts a sign as he leaves the home of Vincent Smith in Varnville, South Carolina. The polling place for the U.S. presidential and local elections is located in the den of Smith's home.

Mitt Romney greets campaign workers during a visit to a voter call center in Green Tree, Pennsylvania.

Stickers stating "I Voted" in several languages are affixed to a ballot machine in Los Angeles, California.

Voters wait to cast their ballots in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The U.S. island territory does not get a vote in the U.S. presidential election, but they are voting in a referendum that asks voters if they want to change the relationship to the U.S.

87-year old voter Rolf Kleinwort placed his "I Voted" sticker on the front of his walker as he heads back to his residence at the St. Andrews Estates North retirment community in Boca Raton, Florida.

Villagers dance at an all-night party to watch the U.S. presidential election in the village of Kogelo, home to Sarah Obama the step-grandmother of President Barack Obama, in western Kenya, November 6, 2012.

People try out a mock polling station at a hotel during a US presidential election results event organized by the US embassy in Beijing, November 7, 2012.