After months and months of campaigning, it is finally Election Day in the United States.
Most polls are expected to open on Tuesday morning, but some parts of the country have
already voted and tallied their results.
To catch up with the latest developments as voting gets underway, we have Lee Unshin on
the line.
Unshin, I understand the polls are already open in some places?
That's right, Daniel.
So according to New Hampshire law, towns with less than 100 residents are allowed to open
their polling stations at midnight and close them as soon as all registered voters have
cast their ballots.
The first town in the state, and the country, to vote is Dixville Notch.
Polls there have already closed and the results have been tallied -- with Hillary Clinton
beating Donald Trump 4-2.
One vote was cast for Gary Johnson and there was one write-in -- for 2012 presidential
candidate Mitt Romney.
The town has a population of just 12 people... and they started voting as the clock struck
midnight on November 8th.
But all other polling stations across the nation will open at 6 a.m., or 8 p.m. Korea
time, which is just a couple of hours from now, and will close at around 7 p.m. Eastern
time.
I see, and aside from the results you just reported there from Dixville Notch, when can
we expect the first results?
Well, it is usually clear who the winner is by around Tuesday evening in the States, or
Wednesday at about noon in Korea.
But if it's a close race, which it's expected to be, we might not know until Wednesday morning
in the U.S., and later on Wednesday here in Korea.
Now, the race has tightened up in recent weeks, but the latest polls show Hillary Clinton
got a mild bounce from the latest FBI announcement that said she would not face criminal charges
after its review of new emails.
Clinton leads Trump by four points nationally in a CBS News poll and an ABC/Washington Post
poll -- both out Monday local time.
In any case, the winner will be the candidate who gets 270 of the available 538 electoral
votes.
But given the way this campaign has gone so far, the outcome is pretty difficult to predict,
so we'll have to keep watching as the results roll in.
Back to you Daniel.