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NEWBURG, W.Va. (AP) -

West Virginia voters still digging out from Superstorm Sandy are casting their votes this Election Day with a little help from the National Guard.
    
The Guard has set up tents at three polling places and provided generators to help provide power to five other areas of the state that were hardest hit by last week's storm.
    
Preston County was buried in up to 2 feet of snow in some areas and 7,500 were still without power Tuesday.
    
In Newburg, 53-year-old Freda McDaniel lost power seven days ago and she's been getting by with a generator. Those hardships didn't prevent her from voting. She went to a last-minute polling place in a funeral home to cast her vote for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
    
Power remains out to more than 26,000.

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