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...year-old freshman at the University of Minnesota, smiled widely as she exited the polling station here. But she said she might not have voted if activists hadn't briefed her yesterday on the voting procedure. The next morning, a line of roughly 50 students waited quietly to cast their first votes. Many, like Precious Gaddis, a junior and first time voter, were at the wrong polling station and left. Gaddis said someone at her apartment complex told her she could vote at the student union but was turned away there today. Meanwhile, students in line murmured to each other...
...Numerous reports of Colorado voters not obtaining absentee ballots in time to cast their votes...
...cold, and previously unpredicted, rain began to fall. The precinct was supposed to have only around 1,200 voters on the rolls but wound up this year with more than 4,000. Christy Kam, 26, a dance instructor, waited in line for more than an hour to cast her first-ever vote, only to discover that she was in the wrong place...
...this overcast election morning in Miami, Basurto, in a neatly pressed shirt and golf cap, was one of the seniors sitting at the Obama campaign office in Little Havana waiting for a ride to the polls to cast a ballot in his first U.S. election. "I like this fellow Obama," he said in Spanish. "I agree with my daughter that it's time for a change around here, and he seems to have a more open mind than McCain." Basurto, who doesn't exactly hail from Ecuador's lily-white élite, is also pleased by the fact that Obama...
...Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, co-chair of the Obama campaign, was reached by phone on her way to cast her vote in Kirkwood, a St. Louis suburb. She said she had been on the phone all morning collecting reports of huge turnout in Democratic and Republican precincts alike. Reports of the heaviest voting, she said, came from urban areas, and "that's great news...