Here Are The Most Powerful Photos From Election Day

Check out how photographers documented one of the most consequential and unique US elections ever.

By
Kate Bubacz
by Kate Bubacz

BuzzFeed News Photo Director

A long line with people in silhouette
Nick Oxford / Reuters

Voters wait in a long line to cast their ballots in Oklahoma City, Nov. 3, 2020.

A handwritten vote count is updated by a man in marker
Ashley L. Conti / Reuters

Tanner Tillotson writes on a board the results of ballots cast, including a unanimous five votes for Joe Biden, shortly after midnight on Election Day in the hamlet of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, Nov. 3, 2020.

A man with a mask that says vote
Caitlin Ochs / Reuters

Andre Wilson waits in line to vote on Election Day in New York, Nov. 3, 2020.

Eric Gay / AP

A jogger carries a Vote! flag as he passes a polling station, Nov. 3, 2020, in San Antonio.

Women wearing banners and face masks sit on a pickup and direct a woman with a cane
Cheryl Evans / USA Today via Reuters

Native Vote volunteers direct a voter to the polls in Bapchule, Arizona, on Nov. 3, 2020.

Two people on horseback fist bump with two men who are standing
David J. Phillip / AP

Eboni Price, center, bumps fists with Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins, left, as Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner points outside a polling site Nov. 3, 2020, in Houston.

Shadows on a wall in front of a vote here sign
Mike Morones / AP

Voters wait outside the Lee Hill polling location on Election Day in Spotsylvania, Virginia, on Nov. 3, 2020.

A young woman with pink hair hugs her mother who is wearing a mask and a flag hat
Gerald Herbert / AP

Erin Doherty hugs her mother, who is voting for the first time in her life, as they wait in line at a polling place on Election Day in New Orleans, Nov. 3, 2020.

Two older women look at a ballot
Mark Lennihan / AP

Poll worker Debra Jones (right) helps a voter on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in New York.

Two women in hijabs walk by signs of we the people
Star Tribune Via Getty Images / Getty Images

Voters made their way out of a polling station after casting their votes in Minneapolis, Nov. 3, 2020.

A young girl in a princess costume with her dad at the polls
Katherine Jones / The Idaho Stateman via AP

Michael Tonn and his daughter vote in Nampa, Idaho, Nov. 3, 2020.

John Moore / Getty Images

Election inspector David Hopkinson wears a full-face ventilator as protection against COVID-19 while working a polling center on Nov. 3, 2020, in Lansing, Michigan.

Robert Cohen / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Members of the St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners find ballots for COVID-19 positive-people during curbside voting in downtown St. Louis, Nov. 2, 2020.

J. Countess / Getty Images

A mother and son celebrate with a fist bump after dropping their ballot in the drop box on Nov. 3, 2020, in Baltimore.

Albert Cesare / Reuters

Board of Elections employees prepare to begin the election night vote count by processing mail-in and early voting ballots, Nov. 3, 2020, in Norwood, Virginia.

Alex Brandon / AP

The anti-scaling fence around the White House is covered with signs on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in Washington, DC.

Jae C. Hong / AP

The word "Vote" is spray-painted on plywood of a boarded-up store on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in Los Angeles.

Jack Gruber / Reuters

Shannon Epstein and Bekah Carlson (right) watch results come in on election night, Washington DC, Nov. 3, 2020.

Chris Mcgrath / Getty Images

A person watches a screen showing early voting results at Black Lives Matter Plaza on Nov. 3, 2020, in Washington, DC.


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