America votes in the midterms

Election day started early across the United States as voters turned out to decide numerous local, state and congressional races and issues on November 8, 2022. 

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Kash Strong, 3, peeks out from under the curtain of a voting booth as his mother Sophia Amacker casts her vote on Election Day at the Martin Luther King Elementary School in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
A poll worker wears a "vote" mask as they check in voters on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Poll worker Alany Gonzalez sets up another voting booth in front of dryers at the Su Nueva Lavanderia near Chicago's Midway Airport Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Voters line up to cast their ballots in the midterm election at the Aspray Boat House in Warwick, R.I., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Voters sign in to get their ballots for the general election at Canadian Hills Church of the Nazarene in Yukon, Okla. on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (Chris Landsberger /Tulsa World via AP)
Loretta Myers fills out her ballot at her polling place, the New LIFE Worship Center Church of God, in Fayetteville, Pa., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Roy McPhail sets up a sign shortly before the doors opened to voters at 6:00 A.M. at the fire station, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in New Gloucester, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
A marquee in downtown Atlanta displays the word "vote" on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Kaitlin Farrell holds her daughter as she fills out her ballot at a polling site in the Brooklyn Museum, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Nuns of Carmel of St. Joseph leave their polling place after casting their ballots in the midterm elections at Ladue City Hall in Ladue, Mo. on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (Whitney Curtis/The New York Times)
A man wears an "I voted" sticker on his shirt, printed with the American flag and the U.S. constitution, after voting at Wa-Ke Hatchee Recreation Center in Fort Myers, Fla, on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. After the area was devastated and thousands were left displaced by Hurricane Ian, Lee County extended their early voting period and permitted voters on Election Day to cast their ballot in any of the dozen open polling places. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Members of the Orthodox Jewish community stand in line to register to vote at a polling center on, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
A man votes in the gym inside Walker-Grant Middle School in Fredericksburg, Va., on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (Tristan Lorei/The Free Lance-Star via AP)
Matt Koenen played pinball at West County Lanes in Ellisville, Mo., as voters used the bowling alley's party room next door to cast their ballots, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
A taxidermied fox watches over voting at a polling site in Flat Rock Brook Nature Center in Englewood, N.J., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
A poll worker lays out I Voted stickers at a polling place Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Beverly Behrmann, of Brattleboro, Vt., fills out her ballot at the Brattleboro, Vt., polling station located at the American Legion during the midterm elections on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)
A poll worker walks past a "vote here" sign, during voting in the midterm elections, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, at Ida B. Wells Middle School in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
People stand in line to vote in the midterm election at the John F. Kennedy Library, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in Hialeah, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Voters await the opening of a precinct at VFW Post 3500 in Richmond Heights, Mo. on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)