Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Election Day Issues

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------Original Message------

From: Alan Boswell

To: Alan Boswell

Sent: Nov 4, 2008 8:19 AM

Subject:



***10 a.m. DEVELOPING STORIES FROM ELECTION PROTECTION***



As of 10am, Election Protection has received over 27,000 calls to the 1-866-OUR-VOTE Hotline since the phones opened at 5:30am this morning.



VIRGINIA

We have seen the situation on the ground in Virginia change drastically over the past hour. Election Protection is calling for the courts to keep the polls open an additional two hours.



MICHIGAN

There are widespread reports of line lines, lack of ample poll workers and general disorganization, resulting in waits as long as two hours. Machine malfunctions are also contributing long lines and in some cases poll workers administering polling through paper ballots. Some voters are expressing concern over the security of their ballots in these situations.



FLORIDA

We have received multiple reports that optical scanning machines are broken in Tallahassee, Tampa, Broward County and Miami-Dade County.



Stay tuned for more updates.



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Oh great, Dade County.
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I know we won't here from DocJess today, but I wonder how things are going in Pennsylvania.
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Is there a twitter maven out there? I was hoping to follow DocJess and Oreo on twitter (on the web, I don't have a newfangled phone), but after I established an account and tried to search for them so I could follow them it said
This feature is temporarily disabled.

Same thign had happened a day or two ago when I first tried this.
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Alec Millard · 859 weeks ago

Just got done voting in Traverse City, MI
Waited in line about 45 minutes. During the time i was inside the room where we voted, about 10 min. I saw 2 people turned away and told they were at the wrong polling place even though they both had registration cards telling them to vote at the place they showed up. Also when i got my voting folder it had my blank ballot as well as the filled out ballot of the person who used that folder ahead of me...
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