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...Palm Beach Democrats Are Smiling, 4:30 p.m. E.T. A Democratic Party operative in Palm Beach County, Fla., is ecstatic. Not only does the high early-voting turnout favor Democratic voters, but the party appears to be ahead in absentee ballots, traditionally dominated by Republicans. "[In the past,] we've won races on the machines and lost them in the absentee," says Mark Alan Siegel, president of the Democratic Club of Boca Raton-Delray Beach, in the southern part of the county...
Waiting times at some polling places in Michigan now exceed three hours. Officials blame the convergence of record turnout - estimated at 70% statewide - with inexperienced first-time voters. At some locations, people are passing out snacks and water, encouraging people to stay in line until they can vote. Some belong to various organizations, but others appear to be individuals acting on their own. - By Maggie Sieger / Grand Rapids...
...Overall, however, things had been going reasonably smoothly in the Philadelphia area, despite what is invariably being described as a record turnout in most places. There were a few spots where machines were broken or wouldn't turn on early in the day. But with a lunchtime rush approaching, he said, most of those issues had been worked...
...Irwin, a library employee from Brooklyn, N.Y., who came to Pennsylvania to work for Obama, said the high turnout was giving her great hope. She had worked all over the city in recent weeks and found tremendous and increasing enthusiasm for Obama, even in the more McCain-friendly precincts in northeast and south Philadelphia. Turnout will help Obama, she said, gesturing to the line. "You want the people to vote...
...state is looking to top the nation in voter turnout again this year, and it argued in the case that the law allowed election officials to prevent disruptions and electioneering at the polls. "If not hostility there's certainly a concern that the presence of the news media will infringe on the voting process," said Jane Kirtley, a media law professor at the University of Minnesota. - By Justin Horwath / Minneapolis...