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In Philadelphia, Paper Ballot Worries and a Still-Undecided Voter, 1:50 p.m. E.T. At a hurried late-morning conference held by speakerphone in an office high over Center City Philadelphia, members of the election watchdog group The Committee of 70 discussed their main worry this busy Election Day: running...
The committee has more than 1,000 volunteers around the area observing the election process, helping confused voters, and fielding phone calls reporting problems and abuses. In the committee's offices, more than a dozen volunteers with phone headsets and laptops were recording problems and suggesting solutions for voters.
And yet, even as she stood in line, nibbling from a cup of fragrant noodles, she was "playing the pieces in my mind" about who to vote for. She did consider not voting at all when she first saw the endless line, she said, but she realized "this is going...
Exit Pollsters vs. Voter Privacy in Minnesota, 1:47 p.m. E.T. Election judges in Minnesota are erring on protecting the privacy of voters over the ability for exit pollsters to conduct interviews outside of polling stations. A head election judge at a polling station on the University of Minnesota Minneapolis...
...state is looking to top the nation in voter turnout again this year, and it argued in the case that the law allowed election officials to prevent disruptions and electioneering at the polls. "If not hostility there's certainly a concern that the presence of the news media will infringe on the voting process," said Jane Kirtley, a media law professor at the University of Minnesota. - By Justin Horwath / Minneapolis...