Extra time
This from North Carolina: voters at the Barwell Road Community Center in Wake County, NC, will have one extra hour to cast their votes tonight - until 2030 - because of a delay in ballot delivery there this morning. Christina Pippin of the Wake County Board of Elections confirms the board approved the extension to make up for time lost when a Chief Judge left the precinct's ballots in a car this morning. More to come I suspect...
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Justin, please think of something a little more substantial in these last hours.
We can read much more than that on CNN and Al-Jazeera.
I'm sorry to add to the numerous complaints, and I have often supported you against your detractors in the past, but you are beginning to show either a very casual oversight of other broadcasters and reporters (even the BBC's) or your contact book is pitifully slim for a foreign editor.
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Oh, you beat me to it. Drat!
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So ?
The polls will stay open till 8.30 p.m.
What's the big deal.
Justin Webb, you of all people should have realised by now that America is the equivalent of a huge great operatic diva, the drama queen of the world. Her elections have to be more knife edge, more cataclysmic than anyone else's. And we all buy into it and we all love it.
But news about the Barwell Road Community Centre doesn't cut the mustard.
We want more than that - and if you won't give it to us we'll just go back to having a good old row with bluepaddy - who at least is always up for a fight.
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If Mccain wins tonight it would be extremely suspicious considering statistical analysis of all the polls conducted over the last six months at http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ have given him 1.1% chance of achieving the 270 electoral votes required for success. The 'Bradley' effect and undecided voters have been factored into the model. Also, Mike Connell the Republican IT expert who designed the OHIO and FLORIDA election systems in 2004, 2000 and also set up DUBYAs election websites was in court today over voting irregularities. Check out http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6600.
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As has been the case far too often on here the moderation and ridiculous length of time it takes means that a sensible ping-pong discourse is impossible.
Suggest you get some of these new fangled machines that read punched cards Justin, heard they're great at this time.
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Was this judge on the ballot also?
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Looks like the judge's kid, or some such relative, drove off with the car. Unless the vote here in NC is extraordinarily close, this shouldn't delay calling the vote here.
An early morning power outage delayed polling at a precinct in a neighboring county, so that poll will close at 1950.
I wouldn't be stunned to see many polling places authorized to extend hours today if the afternoon turnout is sufficient. I doubt it, though, given the 40-50 percent early vote turnout we saw and the fact that it's been raining over the eastern two-thirds of the state since last night.
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There's something quite pathetic about America having such a ramshackle federal voting system 8 excruciatingly long years after the 2000 debacle. I'm referring of course to things such as dodgy voting machines and obviously insufficient numbers of polling booths in some areas.
When it comes to democracy in practice, America could and should be providing a shining example to the world. Yet, sadly, US presidential elections continue to raise legitimate questions regarding dubious - and even corrupt - practices, at least in certain key states.
Here in Australia, the system works like a dream: federal elections are run by the national Australian Electoral Commission (AEC), and exactly the same arrangements apply in each state and territory. The AEC is independent of all political parties, and it's adequately funded by the federal government. You simply couldn't have an election in this country bearing even the slightest resemblance to Florida 2000 or Ohio 2004.
Which brings me to my point: if Obama wins today, I would hope that one of the reforms he effects before 2012 is to drag the US federal voting set-up right out of the Dark Ages and into the light of the 21st century. This presumably would require achieving bipartisan support for a national entity that bypasses the states and oversees voting across the country to see to it that all voters are treated fairly and equally, and are seen to be treated fairly and equally.
If McCain and his Weapon of Moose Destruction win today...but I'd rather not think about that.
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2. endorfin wrote:
"Oh, you beat me to it. Drat!"
Tough. You win some . . .I was determined to make it before it was all over. (But you see, I took the precaution of enlisting a prayer earlier. Just to see if it works.)
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eightypercent
"Justin Webb, you of all people should have realised by now that America is the equivalent of a huge great operatic diva, the drama queen of the world. Her elections have to be more knife edge, more cataclysmic than anyone else's. And we all buy into it and we all love it."
Hilarious.
This is the best description I have read of why there is so much hysterical anti-Americanism coming out of Britain.
You have become addicted to this rubbish, and you need a melodrama. Shameless, but fascinating and terrible.
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#7. The decision to extend hours here in Durham precinct 34 was appealed by the GOP and upheld by election judge. It will close at 19:30 along with all our other precincts (57 in total).
However, the GOP (Repulblicans) in Durham county lost all observers however. It was cited as "clerical error", they did not submit their names by the deadline.
The following local news story does not present it this way ....
http://www.wtkr.com/Global/story.asp?S=9291798&nav=menu78_1_10
Durham is a strong DEM town but it has rained all day, sometimes hard and turnout is less then projected, even factoring in the early vote performance. NC remains close.
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