Rockaway resident Saajida O’Quinn wears a protective mask as she prepares to vote in a makeshift tent set up as a polling place at Scholars’ Academy, PS 180, in the Rockaway neighborhood on November 6, 2012 in the Queens borough of New York City. The Rockaway section of Queens was one of the hardest hit areas and O’Quinn’s home was damaged in Superstorm Sandy. Many voters in New York and New Jersey are voting at alternate locations in the presidential election due to disruption from the storm. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Despite the challenges in some Hurricane Sandy-ravaged areas, voters came out to exercise their right to vote. Across the country, Americans celebrated voting day.
Kelli Powers holds her two-year old son Apollo as she takes a photograph after voting in the garage of Tom and Carol Marshall, which was made into a polling location in her neighborhood, during the U.S. presidential election in Los Angeles, California November 6, 2012. (Photo: REUTERS/Fred Prouser)
Addey Munye, 67, shows off her “I Voted” sticker after she cast her ballot in her first election at a polling station in the West Acres Mall in Fargo, N.D, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Munye is originally from Somalia. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
A woman uses a shaft of sunlight to see her ballot as she votes in a polling site built to service residents of the Queens borough neighborhoods of Breezy Point and the Rockaways, whose original site was damaged during Hurricane Sandy, during the U.S. presidential election in New York, November 6, 2012. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)
Jaime Lea photographs herself and her children, one-year old Scarlett and Zackary, 3, after casting her ballot at John Fremont Middle School on November 6, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Voting is underway in the battleground state of Nevada as President Barack Obama and Republican nominee former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney remain in a virtual tie in the national polls. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)
