The first Muslim woman elected to public office in North Carolina has shared a thread on why she is voting for Kamala Harris, and how the tone of her brief conversations with Harris about Gaza have changed over the course of this year.

Nida Allam, the chair of the Durham Board of county commissioners, and an organizer in the state Democratic party, wrote today about why she is voting for Harris over Jill Stein.

Allam’s engagement with politics began when three Muslim college students, her friends, were murdered by a white man in a horrific 2015 shooting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Here are some of the latest images from the newswires on election eve from across the country.

After threats, one county in Nevada has put panic buttons in all polling places

Threats against election workers have gotten so bad that all polling places in Washoe County, Nevada, have a “panic button” that workers can hit to automatically call 911, the Associated Press reports.

But Andrew McDonald, the deputy registrar of voters in the swing county of half a million people, says there’s only been one incident in nearly two weeks of in-person early voting that required someone to hit the panic button.

That incident, McDonald said at a press conference, involved a voter at one of the county’s 24 early voting sites who would not remove his hat when asked by a worker, who was following state law prohibiting campaign signs or paraphernalia within 100 feet (30 meters) of a polling station.

“A few other voters in line sort of ganged up on the site manager,” McDonald said. But when police arrived, he added, “they calmed down and were able to vote.”

Washoe has become a hotbed for election conspiracy theorists who believe Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Still, McDonald noted that the panic button incident is the only significant one that’s happened during the early vote period, when 90,000 people cast their ballots.

“I get an incident report daily,” McDonald said, “and there haven’t been that many incidents.”

Jon Ralston, a Nevada journalist with a track record of accurately predicting state election results, says he believes Kamala Harris will narrowly win Nevada, but that the results will not be clear until after election night.

Ralston’s full explanation here:

US readers: share which issues have shaped your vote the most in this election

As we cover the outcome of the 2024 election, we’re interested in hearing from Guardian readers across the US about what issues influenced how you think about voting, and what decisions you’ve made when it comes to your vote.

Have recent developments or events – in the world or in your personal life – affected your thinking? Have your existing views hardened? Have you become more ambivalent about certain issues?

Whatever your politics and how they’ve changed, we want to know.

Philadelphia rapper and prison reform activist Meek Mill released a track saying he will vote for Kamala Harris, even as he invoked her record as a prosecutor in an unjust criminal justice system, the Associated Press reports.

Meek Mill surprise released the new track, “Who You Voting For” on Monday afternoon, sharing a snippet of the song with the caption, “I made this last night … who you voting for???” on TikTok.

“My homie say vote for Trump / You want that stimulus / I wanted two from him but the way he movin’ venomous,” he starts the song. “I’m going probably vote Kamala.”

“It ain’t fair when your lawyer look like Trump / DA lookin’ like Kamala,” he continues, critiquing Harris’s past as a prosecutor. “We Thanksgiving to the system / They’ve been eating us for lunch / And it’s the last supper / Hope you be with us for once, Mrs Harris.”

The $1m-a-day voter sweepstakes that Elon Musk’s political action committee is hosting in swing states can continue through Tuesday’s presidential election, a Pennsylvania judge ruled on Monday.

Common pleas court Judge Angelo Foglietta – ruling after Musk’s lawyers said the winners are not chosen by chance – did not immediately give a reason for the ruling.

More details on this news from my colleague Richard Luscombe:

Georgia’s highest court on Monday ruled ballots in the state’s third-largest county must be returned by election day, the Associated Press reports.

A previous lower court ruling would have allowed certain voters in Cobb county who received their absentee ballots late to return them after the deadline as long as they were postmarked by Tuesday.

The county, just north of Atlanta, didn’t mail out absentee ballots to some voters who had requested them until late last week. Georgia law says absentee ballots must be received by the close of polls on election day.

The Georgia supreme court ruling means the affected residents must vote in person on election day, or get their absentee ballots to the county elections office by 7 p.m. that day.

The high court ruling instructs county election officials to notify the affected voters by email, text message and in a public message on the county election board’s website. And it orders officials to keep separate and sealed any ballots received after the election day deadline but before 5pm on Friday.

Donald Trump brought some of his children on stage during his rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he said “this is our last time now, for forever”.

Trump’s children Don Jr, Eric and Tiffany, as well as Eric’s wife and Republican National Committee co-chair, Lara Trump, and Tiffany’s husband, Michael Boulos, all appeared on stage on Monday.

The Republican presidential candidate’s youngest daughter, Tiffany, made a rare speech during the Reading event, hours after she posted to X that her father “will NOT sign a national abortion ban”.