Voters cast their ballots at Tiger Gymnasium at Bideford High School on Tuesday.

Katherine Sargent has her photo taken with Gov. Janet Mills by state Sen. Stacy Brenner outside of Scarborough High School on Tuesday afternoon.

Former Gov. Paul LePage greets voters outside the polls at Windham High School on Tuesday.

Former Gov. Paul LePage and his wife, Ann, greet voters outside the polls at Windham High School on Tuesday. LePage hopes to win back his former job.

Gov. Janet Mills greets voters outside the polls at Scarborough High School on Tuesday. She spent the final days of the campaign crisscrossing the state.

Gov. Janet Mills greets voters outside the polls at Scarborough High School on Tuesday. The gubernatorial campaign has been the most expensive in Maine history, with the candidates spending at least $27 million combined.

Otto Coffin, 2, explores the check-in area while waiting for his dad, Silas, to vote at Waterville Junior High School on Tuesday. It was Otto’s second time at an election.

Voters go through the check-in line for voting at Waterville Junior High School on Tuesday.

Former Gov. Paul LePage greets a voter outside the polls at Windham High School on Tuesday. LePage has styled himself as the defender of Maine's pocketbook.

Lewiston residents vote Tuesday at the former Longley Elementary School.

People line up to vote at the Italian Heritage in Portland on Tuesday. The lengthy Portland ballot took more time than usual to fill out and feed into the machines.

People line up to vote at the Italian Heritage on Tuesday. Election workers said people were taking longer to answer the 13 Portland ballot questions, and some people needed to discard their ballots and start over because they made a mistake.

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows greets election warden Dale Kinney at the Italian Heritage Center in Portland on Tuesday. Kinney said he has been doing the job for about 30 years and told Bellows that voter turnout at the center over the morning was very high.

People line up outside the Woodfords Club in Portland to vote right as the polls open at 7 a.m.

Voters line up to cast their ballots at the Woodfords Club as the polls open at 7 a.m. on Tuesday.

People vote minutes after the polls opened at the Woodfords Club in Portland on Tuesday.

Canton resident Robyn McClintock tends the town’s local ballot box as resident Karin Kilbreth casts her ballot at the Town Office Meeting Room on Tuesday. The local ballots will be hand-counted after the polls close at 8 p.m. while statewide ballots, collected in a separate ballot box, are electronically tabulated, said Town Clerk Angela Varnum.

Voters cast their ballots at Grace Baptist Church gymnasium in Portland on Tuesday.

Sarah Coleman holds her daughter Esme Ruth Martin while she casts her ballot at St. Pius Church in Portland on Tuesday. Coleman grabbed two “I voted” stickers, one for her daughter to wear today and one to put in her baby book. She said she and her partner named their daughter after Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the two wore white on Election Day to symbolize women’s suffrage.

At midday Tuesday, the stream of traffic heading to the polls in Rumford remained steady. Officials said there was a line when voting at the American Legion hall opened at 8 a.m., and the voting clerks had been without a break since then.

Samantha Williams, 18, votes for the first time Tuesday at the Senior Community Center in Auburn. She says abortion rights is the issue she is most concerned about.

House District 96 candidate Mike Lajoie helps Annette Braxton, center, and Annie Rembert figure out their voting ward Tuesday at the former Longley Elementary School in Lewiston.

Election volunteer Sheila Neault greets a voter stepping up to a scanning machine at Tiger Gymnasium at Biddeford High School on Tuesday.

Ellen Marshall, the Albany Township clerk, accepts ballots. Without an automatic tabulator, they hand counted the approximately 350 ballots after the polls closed.