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...while the initial discord between exit polls and election results on November 2 was puzzling, putting together the pieces since then has turned out to be all too easy. In Ohio, Bush received 3,893 votes-without-voters, while one precinct came out with a final vote tally of negative 25 million. In a sworn affidavit in Perry County, OH, an election poll worker noted 96 more votes than voters at a single precinct. Unfortunately, the list goes on—these are just a few of the stories from one battleground state. But throughout dozens of states?...
Three times over the course of the day, poll watchers from both parties could enter precincts and scan the lists of voters to see who had turned out and who had not. Then they called their war rooms so volunteers--the Republicans called them flushers--could call the voters who hadn't yet cast a ballot, give a pep talk, offer a ride. In Franklin County the board of elections handed out more than 800 cell phones to the nonpartisan precinct judges there so they could call the board to report any problems or ask questions...
Some machines, however, had bigger issues: “Voter’s machine defaulted to Republican candidate each time she voted for a Democrat,” one report from Cobb County, Georgia reads. “She told the precinct supervisor about the problem. It continued to happen 7 times.” Similar incidents occurred in reasonably large numbers—some voters tried to push a button for Kerry or Bush and found that the X would appear next to the name of the other candidate...
...Ward 7, Precinct 3—which includes all freshman dorms and Adams House as well as Cambridge residents—had an active voter turnout rate of 85 percent. Ward 4, Precinct 3 and Ward 8, Precinct 3—encompassing the River Houses except Adams—had a combined rate of 79 percent. Ward 8, District 1, covering the Quad Houses, had 88 percent...
...brawl is brewing over where provisional votes must be cast--either in the voter's own precinct or within a broader area, like the voter's home county. Twenty-eight states have adopted the first position, 17 the second; five allow Election Day registration, and in North Dakota you can just show up. Generally, Republicans take the more restrictive view, Democrats the more inclusive one. Reason: poor voters, who tend to vote Democratic, move more often than wealthier ones and are thus less apt to know their appropriate precinct. Lawsuits over provisional ballots have already sprung up in five states...