News organizations across Canada reported on U.S. expatriates and those with dual citizenship voting in advance, but by election eve, several U.S. students in Montreal were scrambling to get home in time to vote, a Boston Globe correspondent reported.

Concordia University students Emily Burns and Carmen Carterfield, both of Massachusetts, told the Globe they hadn't received absentee ballots, and were begging for rides home to vote.

To the east in Kingston, Ontario, home to Queen's University, the Whig-Standard newspaper said the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa had asked the school weeks ago to advise some 250 U.S. students how to get their votes in.

In Regina, Saskatchewan, dual citizen Cassandra Vanthuyne told CJME Radio she had voted by absentee ballot for the first time, and would be glued to the television Tuesday night.

The U.S. Embassy estimates there are about 1 million U.S. citizens living in Canada, with about one-quarter of them in the province of Ontario.