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Election 2026 live updates: First polls close as parties battle for House and Senate

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Democrats hope to take both chambers from Republicans in an election that is largely a referendum on President Donald Trump’s policies.

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The Georgia Senate race leans toward Democrat Jon Ossoff. That indicates NBC News is at least 75% confident in the outcome.

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The official Coconino County, Arizona, X account posted today that horses were headed to prepare for voters at the Havasupai Community Center in Supai Village, a Native American reservation within the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

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Melissa Randazzo, a spokesperson for Coconino County, told NBC News, “The Coconino County Elections Department hires wranglers, mules and horses from the Havasupai Tribe’s tourism office to carry elections supplies and equipment down to Supai Village.”

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Some of the items carried by the mules on the 8-mile trek one way include poll books and ballots, a Starlink internet router and accessible voting machines.

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Randazzo said two election representatives, one from each party, also accompany the group to ensure bipartisan supervision.

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Coconino County Elections Department

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Members of the Navajo Nation have gone to great lengths to ensure neighbors could vote, giving voters rides to polling locations through muddy, flood-affected streets.

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“We had people risking their personal vehicles to go out and pick them up,”…

Original source: https://www.nbcnews.com/

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