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Panamanians begin voting in the country's presidential elections, featuring a crowded field of eight candidates, with the protege of an ex-head of state convicted of corruption in the lead. IMAGES
Ecuadorians begin voting in the second round of the presidential runoff between socialist Luisa Gonzalez, 45, and liberal candidate Daniel Noboa, 35, in the midst of a drug war and a series of political assassinations that cut short the bid of a popular candidate. IMAGES
The 2020 campaign is coming to an end tonight. In the East Coast of the country polls are starting to close. Battlegrounds like Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and Ohio will see results start to trickle in. Polls are also closed in Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and in most of North Carolina and Florida. CNN projects Trump will win the state of Indiana and its 11 electoral votes. Over 100 million Americans voted before the polls opened on November 3rd, 2020.
Chadians begin to vote as polling stations open in N'Djamena to elect their president after three years of transition under military rule. Voters are to choose whether to extend decades of Deby family rule with the junta leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno or opt for his own prime minister, Succes Masra, denounced as a stooge by critics in the absence of any other serious challenger. The eight other candidates, either little known or considered not hostile to the regime, are not expected to win many votes. IMAGES
Voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Espoo as Finland elects its president. Some 4.3 million voters will have to choose between former conservative prime minister Alexander Stubb and ex-foreign minister Pekka Haavisto, a Green Party MP running as an independent. The changing geopolitical landscape in Europe will be the main concern for the new head of state, who will lead the country's foreign policy together with the government and act as supreme commander of Finland's armed forces. IMAGES