Americans tweet poll experiences

Update: 2012-11-07 02:03 GMT
Americans took to Twitter in droves on Tuesday to post photos of themselves casting ballots in the long-awaited presidential election, sporting ‘I voted’ stickers and urging others to do the same.

Google also got in on the act, enabling users to click on the search engine’s Doodle -- made out of ballot papers with the second ‘g’ falling into a voting box sporting the US flag -- to find their nearest polling station.

‘Just cast my vote & my grandpa would be so proud!’, @She_Weezy2012 tweeted, posting a picture of an ‘I Voted’ sticker on her grey jumper, complete with the #ivoted hashtag, which was being used by hundreds of Twitter users.

‘#iVoted for #TeamObama. Had to put an extra check for good measure!,’ @Stwo from New York City said, adding a photo of his ballot paper which had the names of candidates in English and Chinese.

Many complained of long waits at polling stations.

‘Whew 1 hour & 45 mins later,’ @trentfaris tweeted, but still proudly posted a photo of his ‘I voted’ sticker.

Others put up photos of them voting with their children.

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