US goes to presidential polls today

455
Why presidential elections held on first Tuesday of Nov in US?

WASHINGTON: The US goes to presidential polls here on Tuesday.

Polling first began in the New Hampshire state located on the border with Canada.

Voting has begin in of the some of the US states including New York, New Jersey and Virginia.

Long Queues of voters are seen outside the polling stations in these states to elect the 59th US president.

Democrat candidate Joe Biden has been leading the national presidential polls.

Biden had taken lead in the 12-resident village of Dixville Notch in New Hampshire state, where he got five votes while his rival Donald Trump could not get a single vote.