Voters in the US are voting on Nov 6,2012 to elect the 45th president in one of the closest races in history with incumbent President, Democrat Barack Obama, and challenger, Republican Mitt Romney running neck and neck.
Along with the race for president, all 435 seats in the US House of Representatives and 33 of the 100 Senate seats are being contested in Tuesday's election.
The Republicans have majority in the current House of Representatives with 240 Republicans, 190 Democrats, 0 Independents and 5 vacancies. The Senate is currently composed of 51 Democrats, 47 Republicans, and 2 independents.
In addition to all of the above, voters is several States will make choices about some of the most important and contentious legal issues the country is facing
1. California and the death penalty. Proposition 34 would end the state's costly and inefficient experiment with capital punishment and transform all existing death penalties (725 in all) into life sentences without the possibility of parole.
2. Marijuana. Voters in six states will be voting on marijuana initiatives. In Arkansas and Massachusetts, voters will decide whether to legalize, regulate, and tax medical marijuana. In Montana, voters will decide whether to repeal their 2004 medical-marijuana initiative. And in Colorado, Washington, and Oregon, voters will decide whether to legalize, regulate and tax recreational marijuana.
3. Same-Sex Marriage. Voters in three states** -- Maryland, Maine and Washington -- will vote on same-sex marriage initiatives.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his wife Ann finish filling out their ballots while voting during the US presidential election in Belmont, Massachusetts
People waiting in a line outside a polling station at John Jay College in New York
Voters wait to cast a ballot in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York
A woman and her daughter leave a polling station after casting her ballot at a polling station set up for those affected by Hurricane Sandy in Hoboken, New Jersey
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