Some 13,062 delegates were expected to turn out at 53 voting centres in an election
rocked during the morning hours by pockets of controversy that saw military deployed to the area to restore calm.
Several of these photographs were made
during pre-dawn and early
morning hours when, as is so often the case on the Oregon coast, the light was heavy with mist or fog, and the nuances of dark, wet tidal
rocks, barely discernable to the naked eye.