Word: virginia
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Voting Machines Malfunction in Virginia, 12:30 p.m. E.T. State election officials are working feverishly to repair electronic voting machines that malfunctioned in areas around Richmond, Virginia Beach and areas of northern Virginia earlier today, according to campaign and state officials. Election officials have temporarily moved to paper ballots to these areas. In addition, some of the ballots in Virginia Beach were damaged by rainfall while they were being brought inside. - By Kris Osborn / Alexandria...
...Democratic nominee spent the last full day of his presidential campaign in Florida, North Carolina and Virginia-all three of them states that George W. Bush won four years ago and Obama is either tied or leading in. "I have one word for you-tomorrow. We are one day away from changing the United States of America," he declared at every stop. "Tomorrow, you can put an end to the politics that would divide a nation just to win an election." He recalled how he began his quest for the nomination as an underdog in February, 2007, on the steps...
...McCain still almost won Virginia! It's going down to the wire in Florida! All things considered, that's a pretty impressive showing...
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...
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, contending that the state's counties failed to send absentee ballots to military personnel early enough for them to vote on time...