2024 Election live updates: Bay Area, CA voters cast their votes for high-stakes races

Vice President Harris' lifelong friends from the Bay Area have known her since grade school and are doing everything they can to help her win on election night.

Vice President Kamala Harris' lifelong friends from the Bay Area Stacey Johnson-Batiste and Carole Porter believe Harris could win big election night - but they aren't taking any chances and doing everything they can to make it happen.

Johnson-Batiste and Porter have known the Vice President since grade school.

They've been in Harris' corner for every election of her life, including the biggest one. They are doing everything they can to get out the vote.

"We've all been so supportive. I've been door-knocking, I've been phone banking, I was door-knocking in Atlanta just a couple weeks ago," Johnson-Batiste said. "It's such a testament to who she is that so many people - friends, family, colleagues have galvanized around her and this movement."

They've been traveling to swing states - Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Georgia - to convince voters that their lifelong friend should be the next president of the United States.

"This country that seems so divided right now and feels so challenged is the same country that is giving her the opportunity to break this glass ceiling in a way that's never been done before," Porter said. "So that has to say something about where we're from and the fabric of America."

In 2020, Carole gave ABC7 News a tour of the block that Vice President Harris grew up on - Browning and Bancroft in Berkeley.

Vice President Kamala Harris will be watching the results roll in election night at her alma mater Howard University in Washington, D.C.

ABC7 News Anchor Julian Glover will be there providing live election night coverage from the watch party.

Howard University students who are from the Bay Area tell Glover that they're excited, optimistic, and proud. Read more here.

Across the state of California, polls are now open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. If you're voting in-person, just make sure you are in line by 8 p.m.

If you haven't mailed your ballot yet, make sure it's postmarked by today. You can also drop it off at a polling place or drop box.

With Election Day finally upon us, the push to get voters to the polls is more intense than ever.

With Election Day finally upon us, the push to get voters to the polls is more intense than ever.

Even if you haven't registered to vote yet, there is still time to do it at the polls.

In San Mateo County, Supervisor David Canepa says there are around 70,000 unregistered potential voters.

Canepa spent a part of Monday, trying to convince some of those people to vote on Tuesday.

"Going into a voting center like the one behind me and having the ability to show an ID and being able to cast their vote. It's a conditional vote, but it's a vote that matters and counts," Canepa said.

And it's not just happening in the Peninsula.

In San Francisco, there's also a big push to get people out to the polls- especially those who might not have voted in the past.

For the past several weeks, people At Manny's cafe have been making thousands of calls to voters in the swing state of Nevada, trying to convince folks to vote for Kamala Harris.

Republicans too are trying to turn out their voting base.

John Dennis is the chair of the San Francisco Republican Party.

He says since 2020, Republicans have registered millions of people across the country, and thousands here in California.

Dennis believes those voters could be crucial in several important statewide ballot measures, as well as important seats in the House of Representatives.

"The polls are not capturing those new registered voters. And those kinds of folks tend to vote," Dennis said.

Around 83 million people have already voted early around the country, including 8 million Californians.