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...past elections, Daryn Smalley, a 32-year-old financial trainer at the Cleveland Clinic, took his time, sauntering into St. Mary's in the late afternoon. Today is different. He's here to vote for Barack Obama. "I wanted to get in as early as possible and avoid the rush," Smalley said. Maria Wright, 55, is a grandmother used to voting early on Election Day. She isn't too excited about this year's choices for president. "I don't like either of them," she says and has resorted to picking John McCain. "He's just the lesser...
Cadres of poll watchers, and people watching the poll watchers, are in place. They're hoping to avoid a repeat of the 2004 election, where waits of two hours occurred when poll watchers and election challengers wrongly disrupted the flow of voters. Five different groups are sending observers into 17 Grand Rapids polling sites, where they'll be under strict new state guidelines governing their behavior. First and foremost? No talking directly to voters. (In Chicago, a reporter was reprimanded for trying to ask former radical Bill Ayers who he voted for.) - By Maggie Sieger / Grand Rapids
...thing, there has been a strict quarantine in place since 2006 to avoid early leaks of totally unreliable data - which is what happened in 2004. This year, no exit poll data was released until 5 p.m. E.T., and only a handful of National Election Pool officials were allowed to see the early data...
...colleagues at the other major networks surely have the same (lack of) ambition. News organizations are desperately trying to avoid the stumbles of 2000, when the networks botched the election by calling Florida for both Al Gore and George W. Bush, only to retract those projections. Since that debacle, the networks have faced enormous pressure to make the right pick, while still beating the competition to the airwaves. "My instructions are to make sure you get it right," says Dan Merkle, director of ABC's "Decision Desk" and the man with final say over that network's projections...
...would begin. During a weeklong visit to Japan - his first overseas trip since undergoing surgery to remove gallstones in early October - the Dalai Lama is scheduled to meet with Buddhist monks and speak on spirituality. He will not, however, meet with politicians, as the Japanese government is careful to avoid criticism from China by meeting with the leader, whom Beijing accuses of fomenting riots in China and anti-China demonstrations...