Election security: Officials say 2024 election saw only 'minor' disruptive activities
Voting hours were extended at a number of polling sites due to technical issues.
From the polling place to the courtroom, ABC News tracks the latest election security developments on Election Day 2024 as experts warn about the spread of misinformation and disinformation from within the U.S. and abroad.
Security experts stress that the nation's voting infrastructure is highly secure, and that isolated voting issues do not indicate widespread election fraud.
For coverage of each race, see our election updates.
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How to watch ABC News coverage of Election Day
On Election Day, voters around the country will eagerly wait to hear if former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris comes out on top in the race for the White House.
ABC News will have full coverage of the presidential election results and many other key down-ballot races on Election Day and the days afterward as votes continue to get counted.
Here's how to watch ABC News live coverage of 2024 election results.
'Candidates don't get to decide who wins elections': Michigan secretary of state
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was asked during a press briefing Monday about the possibility that Trump could declare victory tomorrow before all the votes are actually counted.
"Candidates don’t get to decide who wins elections, voters do," Benson responded. "And so we will keep reminding folks of that truth. Candidates certainly can say and will say whatever they want to say, it doesn’t change the facts. It doesn’t change the tallies of the votes that are cast on paper ballots that will be audited after the fact and securely tabulated throughout the election to ensure the accuracy of the results, whatever those results may be."
Benson added that they "hope and expect and ask all the candidates to respect the will of the people and respect those results, and to not claim something is true when it's not."
In 2020, Trump claimed to have won the election only hours after polls closed on Nov. 3, 2020, before final results were in.
Benson said she and her staff will be debunking false statements and conspiracy theories as they arise, but that "truth and transparency are on our side."
“We’ve seen how completely innocent things can be misused to spread false aspersions about our election, so let's all be vigilant," she said.
She also urged the public to question what they see on social media.
"Don't assume anything that you're seeing from a source other than a trusted voice or an election official has truth until you cross-check it with other sources of information," she said.
-ABC News' Mike Levine
Trump expected to host dinners at Mar-a-Lago on election night with club members, donors and close friends
Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to host multiple dinners on election night at his Mar-a-Lago club -- including with his close friends, donors and club members, multiple sources familiar with the dinners told ABC News.
Trump is expected to dine with an intimate group of close friends Tuesday night, and there will be a separate Mar-a-Lago club member dinner in the ballroom. A source familiar with the dinners said there won't be any formal speeches but Trump will likely stop by to greet them all.
Earlier that day, Trump is expected to cast his vote in Palm Beach, Florida.
Several of the attendees of the dinners told ABC News that they're planning on heading over to the Palm Beach Convention Center after the dinner.
-ABC News' Soo Rin Kim, Lalee Ibssa and Kelsey Walsh
Harris emphasizes unity while addressing canvassers in Pennsylvania
Harris addressed canvassers in Scranton, Pennsylvania, ahead of a rally later this afternoon in the battleground state, where she emphasized building community and unity.
"I can feel the mood in here because it's the best of who we are as a democracy," Harris said at the event at the Montage Mountain Resort. "We are a people-driven campaign, and we love the people, and we see in the face of a stranger a neighbor, right? And that's the spirit of what we are doing."
She said the "whole era of this other guy" and discussion about "trying to point fingers at each other and divide each other" makes people feel alone.
"As we are getting out to vote, as we are canvassing, let's be intentional about building community, about building community, about building coalitions, about reminding people we all have so much more in common than what separates us," she said.
CAIR sends 600,000 texts to Muslim voters asking them to vote
The nation's largest Muslim civil rights organization has sent out 600,000 text messages to ask American Muslim voters to vote on Election Day. The Council on American-Islamic Relations has been targeting Muslim voters across the country, including those in key swing states.
CAIR has not endorsed a candidate and will not do so as a 501(c)(3) organization. However, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement, "Turnout numbers for our community so far are promising, but they need to be much higher. We encourage all remaining American Muslim voters to show up on Election Day."
Acknowledging some Muslim American’s views on the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict, Awad acknowledged that many may be "disillusioned and frustrated due to U.S. support for Israel's genocide in Gaza."
"But sitting on the sidelines of this election will not help the people of Gaza or anyone else," Awad said. "Elected officials take communities seriously when they fully participate in the political process, including by exercising their right to vote. No matter who you support, showing up to vote is a display of political strength."
In recent months, some Muslim American activists have called on Muslim Americans to mobilize as a way of leveraging the community's power post-election.
-ABC News' Beatrice Peterson