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...five voting booths went unused, despite a line that snaked out the door and halfway around the building. One judge gave two people two different reasons that those booths were not in operation. The first person was told they were in use by another precinct. The second person, that they weren't set up yet, despite the fact that polls had been open for more than four hours...
...Center City Philadelphia, members of the election watchdog group The Committee of 70 discussed their main worry this busy Election Day: running out of paper ballots. Word was coming in from all over the area that poll workers were not familiar with a federal court decision last week requiring precincts to make paper ballots available in the case of a machine breakdown. Worse, there were only about 100 paper ballots pre-set at each precinct, so places with serious machine problems in the morning faced running...
...city's most overcrowded precinct - in the heart of the bustling Chinatown - the lunchtime line snaked far around the corner of the block at the Chinese Christian Church at 10th and Spring streets. Easily a hundred people waited in line as a 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...
...campaign specifically excluded from its monitoring precincts the African-American neighborhoods expected to vote overwhelmingly for Obama. In gauging voting activity, Oliver said, the campaign factored in each precinct's early voting and absentee balloting. The campaign has no exit polling data to show who the voters in those precincts are actually voting...
...feel pretty comfortable with saying we're going to have one for the record books," McCaskill said. She reported a conversation with staff at one St. Louis-area precinct where 650 people voted in the first hour. "And that's jaw-dropping," she said...