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US election coverage advisory

Published November 7, 2016 Updated November 7, 2016 07:40pm

WASHINGTON: All eyes will be on the United States on Tuesday as Americans go to the polls to decide who will spend the next four years in the White House and control the US Congress.

Agence France-Presse will be there on Election Day with fast, comprehensive coverage from reporters, photographers and video teams with the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and at polling stations around the country.

We will have live video from several cities as voters go to the polls and we will also provide video coverage of the Clinton and Trump 'victory' rallies in New York on Tuesday night.

More than two dozen photographers have been deployed around the country to capture voters casting their ballots in this momentous election.

In addition to supplying in-depth text, photo, video and still and interactive graphics coverage, AFP's online multimedia products will be updated regularly throughout the day and night until the results are known.

Online Live Reports in English, French and Spanish will provide a blow-by-blow account of the White House race and the battle for control of the Senate and House of Representatives.

Our Twitter feeds -- @AFP in English and @afpfr and @AFPusa in French -- will snap the latest developments and top stories will be featured on AFP's Facebook accounts.

In keeping with tradition, the first voters will go to the polls in the tiny New Hampshire village of Dixville Notch at midnight (0500 GMT). AFP will be there in text, photo and video to kick off our Election Day coverage.

We will alert the opening of the first polling stations on the East Coast at 6:00 am (1100 GMT).

Throughout the day we will provide regular updates of the main story plus sidebars on voter turnout, election incidents and angled pieces from the battleground states which could swing the race one way or the other.

Immediately after the result, we will file a comprehensive multimedia package of stories including the breaking news, worldwide reactions, scene stories, profiles, backgrounders and a look at what the first 100 days of a Clinton or Trump presidency might look like.

The first polling stations close at 7:00 pm Eastern Time on Tuesday (0000 GMT Wednesday) and the last, in Alaska, at 1:00 am (0600 GMT) on Wednesday.

Presidential election results will be filed immediately as they become available following the close of polls in each state. We will also run a regularly updated presidential results table.

We anticipate the first indications of a victor in the presidential race to come after 10:00 pm (0300 GMT Wednesday), although it could be later -- significantly later -- if it's a tight contest.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2016