Sen. Barack Obama hit the polls early Tuesday, as dozens of eastern states opened their polling stations to kick off the historic election pitting the Illinois senator against Sen. John McCain.
Obama and his wife, Michelle, voted side by side at Shoesmith Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, as their daughters Sasha and Malia looked on. The couple took about 20 minutes to complete their ballots.
"I hope this works. I'll be really embarrassed if it doesn't," Obama told a poll worker as he fed his ballot into a machine.
iReporter Lindsey Miller, 23, said Secret Service agents were checking names off a list and using metal-detecting wands on some would-be voters as they entered the polling place.
"All the agents and stuff was a bit overwhelming for having just woken up," the University of Chicago graduate student said. "A lot of people were in pajamas. I know I was -- not the time you want to be on national TV."
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