If you want to celebrate your vote with a ballot “selfie” at the polls on Election Day, you can do so but there are some rules you still need to follow.

LOS ANGELES - Voters in California will soon decide the fate of Proposition 50, a proposal to temporarily redraw California's congressional district lines in an effort to create more Democratic seats in the House — an effort Gov. Gavin Newsom says will offset a similar move in Texas designed to create more Republican seats.

Millions of Americans will soon head to the polls to cast ballots in local and statewide political races, in the first general election of President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.

California’s special election will be held Tuesday, though mail-in voting has been available for weeks. Polls close at 8 p.m. PT, or 11 p.m. ET. The AP will provide vote results and declare the winner in the redistricting ballot measure. Any voter registered in California may participate in the special election.

Key races in Virginia and New Jersey, and the fate of partisan redistricting in California, hang in the balance as Election Day 2025 kicks off.

The Justice Department will send election monitors to Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Kern and Fresno counties.

Candidates for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, and for mayor of New York City, campaigned in the final hours before the Nov. 4 election.

Voters will head to the polls across the US on Tuesday for state and local elections that will take the political temperature nearly one year into Donald Trump’s second term in the White House. Hundreds of local government positions ranging from school board governors and city council officials to judges,