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That apparently wasn't enough. Tuesday's election was plagued with problems, ranging from faulty machines that contributed to long lines to ballot shortages and voter intimidation. While no one is suggesting that these problems affected the overall results, they again highlighted the inability of the world's preeminent democracy...
Election Protection, a nonprofit monitoring group in Washington, said that as of 8 p.m. E.T. Tuesday it had received 50,000 reports alleging voting irregularities. The problems seemed most prevalent in Florida, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
In Florida, for example, some of the new optical-scan machines, which replaced the hanging-chad punch machines of eight years ago, broke down, forcing election officials in several counties to place hand-marked ballots in the lockboxes attached to the non-functioning machines. When the lockboxes became full, officials...
There were also disturbing reports of partisan attempts to suppress voter turnout. Officials at Election Protection said messages were broadcast via robo-calls, text messages and Facebook to discourage young, first-time and minority voters. The tactics, the officials said, seemed suspiciously similar across more than a dozen states. "We...
Election Protection threatened to initiate lawsuits early Tuesday as the first reports of irregularities flowed into its office. But by nightfall, officials said they were more interested in working out voting kinks with local officials than in taking them to court. John McCain's campaign did file suit in Virginia...