But the government is braced for headlines about hard-up families forced to move out of London, criticism from anti-poverty charities and unease among Lib Dems.
Turnout at the polls was expected to be low, and candidates and election officials braced for a possible winter storm that could dump up to six inches of snow on the region and complicate Tuesday's logistics.
The units, dubbed "Churchill's Secret Army", were set up to relay vital information about enemy movements and help mount counter-attacks as Britain braced itself for occupation.
The Northeastern U.S. braced Thursday for what the National Weather Service called a "potentially historic" blizzard that threatened to dump up to two feet of snow across a swath of New England and the mid-Atlantic.