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Donald Trump probably never heard 'em from his penthouse, but a few badass hombres showed up at Trump Tower with a message from Mexico ... mariachi style!

The band showed up Tuesday night and quickly came face-to-face with some not-so-happy NYPD officers ... who told them to take the party somewhere else.

They obliged, but you gotta see what happens when they turn around to leave. Funniest election night exit. So far, anyway.

#MariachiBandsEverywhere

Some Florida students tried to vote today but they hit a brick wall, because the folks at the polling place would not recognize their dorm address.

A rep from 866-OUR-VOTE Election Protection -- the nation's largest nonpartisan voters' rights coalition -- tells us at least 3 students were told their dorm at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton was considered a hotel ... not a residence.

The students were given a "provisional ballot" ... which voters get when there are eligibility questions -- and they were told their votes "may or may not be counted."

One of the students, an African-American woman, claims the people at the polling place gave her a particularly hard time.

We spoke with a rep from the Palm Beach County's Supervisor of Elections Office, who say they looked into the matter and the students in question had some irregularity with their addresses but the rep knew nothing about characterizing a dorm as a hotel.

Nick Jonas learned a tough lesson on election day -- the early bird doesn't always get the worm.

Nick was one of the first to show up bright and early Tuesday morning at a polling place in Sherman Oaks, CA ... but encountered some trouble when poll workers couldn't find him on the roll sheet. It appeared he had just moved into the area and wasn't registered to vote there.

We're told Nick was then taken to a back room where he told officials about the change of address and proved he was new to the area.

Hillary Clinton's built herself quite the wall at The Peninsula hotel -- where cops are decked in full armor and trucks are lined up to thwart any attack.

Hillary's watching the election results from The Peninsula and then heading over to the Jacob Javits Center for the victory bash before reportedly heading back to the hotel for the after-party.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are like people who found out their cousin just hit the lottery, because they continue to troll for money, just hours before the polls close.

Hillary's campaign just sent an email to people who have already contributed, asking for more ... "one last time."

Donald is asking his supporters to shell out loot to feed his campaign volunteers pizza and snacks ... $5 or $10 bucks.

Donald Trump's right hand woman, Omarosa, was greeted by huge trucks, hundreds of cops and Secret Service when she showed up at work -- but she says it's all good inside Trump Tower today.

The Donald's Director of African-American Outreach was on "TMZ Live" to give us the scoop on what's going on inside Trump headquarters as the votes are cast -- and it sounds like a complete 180 from the intensity of the campaign.

Omarosa believes Trump has good reason to put his heels up right now, based on numbers she's seeing. Not to mention all the food and snacks surrounding him and his family right now.

FINALLY ... Luke Rockhold and Demi Lovato have gone public with their relationship -- hitting up an NFL game as a couple this weekend ... and we got the pic.

TMZ Sports broke the story ... Luke and Demi began quietly dating at the beginning of the summer after hitting it off at the Unbreakable MMA gym in L.A.

There was some secret social media flirting ... but for the most part, they kept things on the D.L. -- until Sunday when they arrived to the L.A. Rams game together and even posed for pics.

A Michigan polling place erupted in violence with voters squaring off and repeatedly hurling the n-word.

The fight went down at a polling station in Ypsilanti, Michigan ... outside Ann Arbor. According to witnesses ... the white woman in the video got extremely heated with a black man, who was apparently defending a black woman who was arguing with the white woman.

The woman shooting the video jumped into the middle of the fray and the slurs started flying.

TMZ spoke to the white woman's husband, his name is Daryl McCabe, and despite the language in this video ... he insists he and his wife, Mary, are NOT racists. Daryl tells us, Mary "did say the n-word and that isn't a good idea, I don't agree with that."

He also said, "I have black friends who are great. My first choice was actually Ben Carson." He's even got the card to prove it.

McCabe says they spoke to police and filed a report. No one's been arrested, but he says the whole mess only started because the black woman was blocking their car from leaving and yelling, "Black lives matter."

Charlie Sheen partied in the voting booth like it was 1960.

Charlie was at LAX where he told our photog he's a fan of decency, and if you thought that'd be your first clue about who he voted for, think again.

Don't expect to see Monica Lewinsky at the polls -- 'cause she's halfway across the world teaching Swedes how to stand up against bullies ... which may or may not be a reference to the Clintons.

Monica was set to publicly speak in Stockholm, Sweden Tuesday as a guest lecturer for an event called Hjärntillskott (a mouthful, for sure) Executive Day 2016. Monica's anti-bullying campaign has made her a hot ticket on the lecture circuit.

The timing of this gig shouldn't be too surprising though. She made it clear last month she didn't want any part of the political convo ... especially after Donald Trump dragged old Bill Clinton allegations into the campaign season.

We're guessing she voted absentee ... for her local candidates and measures, if nothing else.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are still separated -- as far as the world knows -- but the exes definitely hit the polls as if they're still a thing.

Paps got Ben and Jen out in Brentwood Tuesday casting their votes, and leaving the polling station in lockstep.

As we've reported ... they've gone above and beyond to continue co-parenting on the same turf ... and clearly same goes for exercising their Constitutional rights.

Miley Cyrus got the VIP treatment on election day -- literally driving into a polling place and casting her ballot while Liam Hemsworth never let go of the steering wheel.

Miley hit up a fire station in Bev Hills that offers curbside voting service. Check out the vid ... a firefighter leads her into the station's driveway where Miley hands her ballot.

Only in Hollywood ... cause even Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had to walk inside a polling place, walk inside and cast their ballots.

Turns out ... there's curbside voting at polling places in L.A. County, but it's only available to a select few.

And in case you're wondering ... Miley's with her.

Trump Tower -- the place Donald Trump calls home and work -- is being protected by a line of dump trucks all filled with sand ... and the endgame is to prevent terrorist attacks.

NYC Dept. of Sanitation vehicles showed up early Tuesday, forming a barrier to minimize an attack with explosive devices ... law enforcement tells TMZ.

A Dept. of Sanitation spokesperson tells us they've also got trucks set up at The Peninsula Hotel, Hilton Hotel and Javits Center for the same purpose.

There's also a heavy police presence outside the tower and at The Hilton in NYC ... where Donald's set to celebrate IF he wins.

A Georgia voter nearly got screwed out of casting his ballot because of an alleged computer glitch, but he thinks something's suspicious ... and Donald Trump might wanna pay attention.

Todd Saine tells TMZ he was checking in to his polling place at Columbus Technical College Tuesday morning when the polling staff told him he already voted, and couldn't cast another vote.

Todd says he was forced to wait in line with many others who had the same problem. Eventually, a supervisor for the Columbus County election board came to the polling place to sort out the mess.

After the supervisor questioned him, Todd says they deleted his record of voting and allowed him to cast his actual vote ... for Donald Trump.

We spoke with the Director of Elections and Registration in Columbus, who confirmed there was an issue with the electronic poll lists, and they've now switched to using paper lists to check in voters for the rest of the day. Todd says there were dozens of people affected, but the Director says it was 5 to 10 people.

Sick of election coverage? Then get a load of Audrina Patridge.

She's rocking a two-piece during her Hawaiian honeymoon with new hubby/baby daddy Corey Bohan. While you're checking out the pics ... keep in mind that body squeezed out a baby just 5 months ago.

Hillary Clinton voters are flocking to Susan B. Anthony's gravesite to pay homage to the OG suffragette who was arrested for illegally casting a ballot almost 144 years ago.

Susan's tombstone in her hometown of Rochester, NY has been overrun with "I Voted" stickers and American flags.

A little history lesson -- Susan was arrested Nov. 18th after illegally voting in the 1872 election. She died 14 years before women were finally allowed to vote in 1920.

Scores of people are also paying tribute to other prominent women's rights activists ... including Sojourner Truth, who was born into slavery, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- both of whom dedicated their lives for passage of the 19th Amendment.

Now a woman could be POTUS.

#WhatATimeToBeAlive #GirlPower