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Indiana 11.6% reporting

Obama 48.1%

McCain 50.7%

Originally Posted by loneprotester

Lindsey Graham just won reelection

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9293165

I posted this in news as well.

Update: E-voting problems reported early in battleground states
Issues arose in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia
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November 4, 2008 (IDG News Service) Today could be a long day for election officials in states relying on electronic-voting machines to record votes in the U.S. presidential election, if early reports of malfunctions are any indication.

Problems with e-voting machines were reported early on Election Day in several states, including Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia, which are identified as battleground states where the outcome of the vote could tip the presidential race in favor of either Democratic Sen. Barack Obama or Republican Sen. John McCain.

According to reports from voters on the ground and from watchdog organizations, there were problems with getting e-voting machines up and running in these key states and others, and in some cases the machines would crash during the voting process and had to be rebooted.

Pennsylvania and Virginia were among states that Verified Voting, an advocacy group focused on improving voting systems, and other watchdog organizations said they would monitor closely for problems. Neither state had early voting before Nov. 4, nor do they require paper-trail backups with the touch-screen e-voting machines in place at polls.

Critics of e-voting said that without a paper trail, there's no way to audit the results of a touch-screen machine, often called DREs, or direct recording electronic machines.

Some polling locations can give voters so-called emergency paper ballots, but this is not the case in all locations, said Pamela Smith, executive director of Verified Voting, in an interview early today. "There is no clear policy on emergency paper ballots, or on when to distribute them so voters can still vote," she said.

Moreover, if there is widespread failure with machines, locations with paper ballots are "concerned that they'll run out," Smith said.

This, in fact, happened at one location in northern New Jersey this morning, where emergency paper ballots were gone by as early as 9:30 a.m. Eastern time. Polling officials began making photocopies of paper ballots because people who came to vote were leaving the site, frustrated by the delay.

William Grafton, an IT professional, left the line at a polling site in Maplewood, N.J., a town just outside of New York, because an e-voting machine was not working; he said he would return at lunch to try again.

Grafton said people in the area are "worried" that their votes will not be counted because they would be on paper ballots and not on the e-voting machines. Other voters said they preferred to use a paper ballot -- even if they voted via e-voting machine -- because they felt having a paper trail to record votes was more secure.

"It's two minutes to do the electronic, so if you have to do the paper I would do it too, to make sure the vote counts." said Sylvia Green, a certified nurse's aid who waited two hours to vote at a polling site in Irvington, N.J., about six miles from New York.

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Originally Posted by Populist

Lindsey Graham's win not surprising.

I hope Dole can pull off a win in NC.

ME TOO!

I hope that Senator Dole will win too Populist. She has worked hard for the Sheriffs and law enforcement to have access to the 287 g.

They are talking about the Dole/Hagan race now. They are saying that it is a tough race.

Mitch McConnell slight lead, and Saxby Chambliss (GA) slight lead.

2 Chronicles 7:14

I'm not surprised at Graham either....people are so stupid.


Keep in mind we are Americans and no matter what happens this night we keep on fighting.....Americans never give up and never in.....and we fight until we do!

3 House races to watch ... 3 anti-illegal immigration allies in what's been called tough races:

-Brian Bilbray (CA) Chairman of the Immigration Reform Caucus

-Dana Rohrbacher (CA)

-Tom Feeney (FL)

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

I'm not surprised at Graham either....people are so stupid.


Keep in mind we are Americans and no matter what happens this night we keep on fighting.....Americans never give up and never in.....and we fight until we do!

Absolutely!!!

Indiana 20.8% reporting

Obama 48%

McCain 50.9%

How can they say Lindsey Graham won when only 8 percent of the votes are counted and it's 50/50?