Election Day Difficulties
The following guest entry was written by Doug Chapin, director of electiononline.org.
Voting across the American mainland on Tuesday occurred largely as I would have expected. There were reports of scattered problems in Indiana, Ohio and elsewhere -- plus bad weather, which closed at least one polling place in Washington State -- but by and large the day started off without major incident.
The first YouTube moment of the day occurred in Ohio, where Rep Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, was filmed struggling to get her optical scan ballot to feed into the machine. There were also reports of pollworker no-shows and machine start-up problems in several states… an inevitable consequence of the massive changes we've seen in elections at the local level.
The next big event will be poll closing time, when votes are tabulated -- we'll be watching to see whether or not this morning's problems are present at the important steps of translating votes into vote totals. Stay tuned...
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Campaign 2006
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