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...seem simple to you, gentle voter. Set up some voting booths, recruit some senior citizens, roll out some "I Voted" stickers, and you have yourself a democracy...
...even with years of planning, no one knows for sure what will happen at the precincts on Tuesday. One problem is predicting turnout. Election officials can guess at what will happen based on the number of total registered voters before the election and the rate of early or absentee votes. But they have to order machines and print ballots before voter registration and absentee voting end. This year in Virginia, Suleman and other officials are predicting 80% to 85% turnout, which would be unprecedented...
...lines of up to seven hours long in some precincts, found that the length of the ballot was the biggest predictor of delays. If a ballot included dozens of races and a long list of propositions, as it did in some precincts, it took much longer for a voter to complete it. Every hour, about 3% of the voters in those long lines gave up and left, according to Ted Allen, an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at Ohio State University in Columbus, who co-authored the study...
...This year, some voter-advocacy groups are predicting extremely long lines at certain precincts in Virginia, Ohio and Florida - and the lawsuits have already begun. In Virginia, "the allocation of polling-place resources is plainly irrational, nonuniform and likely discriminatory," charges a complaint filed on Oct. 27 against the state by the Virginia State Conference of the NAACP. Virginia governor Tim Kaine disputes this charge and promises an orderly election, noting that the state has a short ballot this year, along with 4,700 more voting machines and 11,000 more poll workers than...
...think [Obama] can win here," says Jane Anderson, 64, a retired principal from nearby Clarkdale. The independent voter heard about the effort "in Wal-Mart, of all places" 10 days ago. "Everyone on line was so enthused about Obama, and they were talking about how there was a place we could volunteer, so I asked where it was, and here I am," she says, flipping her long, dark hair over her shoulder. Anderson has returned nearly daily to the tiny Cottonwood office, rented four months ago by volunteers pooling their resources...