Updated: 1:03 PM Virginia election officials say heavy turnout is leading to long lines at polling places across the state.

Updated: 1:08 PM Here are a few things you need to know before you head out to the polls today.

Posted: 8:16 AM An exhausting Senate race that led the nation in spending by murky outside, independent groups and has tested voters' patience for a year is at an end.

Posted: 7:53 PM There's one polling place in Washington where all the voters are dressed alike. And when they finish casting their ballots, they head back to their cell block, not to work.

Updated: 7:30 PM With election day just hours away, many of you are wondering, “Does my vote actually matter?” A WHSV reporter spoke with a political analyst to find out.

Updated: 7:37 PM Some people said they are finding an unusual letter in the mail that lists their neighbors names, addresses and if they voted in the past two presidential elections.

Posted: 5:35 PM Registrar's offices around the Valley were busy on Monday getting ready for election day.

Updated: 5:04 PM Getting to the polls can be difficult for senior citizens and some retirement communities in the Valley will run free shuttles throughout the day on Tuesday.

Updated: 7:42 PM Some of the youngest voters in the Valley cast their votes for our next president in a mock election.

Updated: 5:45 PM Impatience at the polls can cause frustration and the potential for violence on election day, but workers the polls are trained to make sure the polls are run efficiently.

Posted: 3:23 PM Mitt Romney will head to Ohio and Pennsylvania on Election Day for a last-minute flurry of campaigning before the polls close.

Posted: 8:39 PM On a solo campaign swing in closely divided Virginia, Michelle Obama is presenting her husband as the candidate of middle-class opportunity who "understands the American dream because he's lived it."

Posted: 8:38 PM Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is returning to Virginia ahead of Tuesday's election.

Updated: 6:58 PM A U.S. Senate candidate made a stop in the Valley on Friday.

Updated: 7:04 PM A Senate candidate made a visit to the Valley on Thursday to discuss the importance of knowing how to speak multiple languages.

Posted: 12:42 PM Election day is just five days away. Earlier today, Democratic Virginia Senate candidate Tim Kaine was in the Valley at the Rosetta Stone office. He was joined by Sen. Mark Warner (D) to host a town meeting with employees about jobs and the economy.

Updated: 4:16 PM Don Palmer, Secretary of the State Board of Elections, has asked local electoral boards in localities impacted by Hurricane Sandy to extend absentee voting hours over the course of the remaining absentee period that ends on Saturday, November 3, 2012.

Updated: 2:10 PM Hurricane Sandy's approach has canceled at two presidential race rallies in the campaign's closing days in swing state Virginia and may do the same for other events as the freakish late-season megastorm comes ashore.

Posted: 1:39 PM Republican Mitt Romney's Sunday evening rally in Virginia Beach has been canceled because of Hurricane Sandy.

Posted: 2:05 PM With a once-comfortable lead in Virginia now in doubt, President Barack Obama has made a plaintive and urgent appeal to thousands of supporters not to give up on his quest for a second term while renewing his harangues of Republican Mitt Romney.

Posted: 6:58 PM The son of Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., has resigned from his father's campaign after a conservative group released an undercover video in which he discussed a plan to cast fraudulent ballots.

Posted: 10:27 AM Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan, has a campaign stop scheduled in Albemarle County on Thursday.

Posted: 9:26 PM Republican Mitt Romney will see President Barack Obama a Thursday campaign event in Richmond and raise him with three Virginia rallies in the state's most populous regions on Sunday.

Posted: 3:24 PM Booze has been traded for votes in the Appalachian region in years past, but at least one election official is raising prescription pills as a new worry.

Updated: 6:51 PM Two cities in the Valley could swing Virginia Republican or Democratic during the presidential election. Both Harrisonburg and Staunton could change the face of the race in Virginia.