A man casts his ballot inside a polling station just after midnight on November 8, 2016 in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, the first voting to take place in the 2016 US presidential electio AFP / Alice Chiche
Washington: Polling stations opened Tuesday as the first ballots were cast in the long-awaited election pitting Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump.
Voters in nine states got first crack at electing the new president, with the rest of the country due to get started later in the day.
The polls were open in Connecticut, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Vermont and Virginia.
