It's Nov. 4, and you're primed for the election season to finally end. You kick back on the couch to watch results tumble in as TV pundits try to predict the next president.

For a while, it looks good for Republicans as they rack up victories in Michigan, Ohio and much of the South.

But the Democrats come back, taking Pennsylvania, New York and California. A close race in Florida means delays, but the Democrats triumph there, too.

According to Heather Maddox, the Democratic co-chairwoman of the county's Board of Election and Registration, an encoder at the vote center inside the Dayton United Methodist Church froze up around 6:30 a.m.

Maddox was able to deliver a new one by 7 a.m., solving the problem.

Encoders are the machines vote center workers use to get voters the cards they insert into the voting machines, she said.

Though voters were offered provisional ballots during the period the machine was down, a few voters got angry at poll workers, she said.

An order signed Friday by Superior Court Judge Lee A. Solomon authorized the inspection at the request of John Gilliams, who ran fourth for three seats open on the board this year.

Gilliams' tally was 12 short of election.

Re-elected were Sara Davis and Martha Wilson. Jose Delgado, who had served on the school board for 20 years, also was elected.

Davis was re-elected president of the school board this week.

Sequoia Voting System tried to persuade Judge Linda Feinberg to quash subpoenas issued in Bergen, Gloucester, Mercer, Middlesex, Ocean and Union counties instructing officials to turn over voting machines that showed discrepan cies in the February presidential primary.

VoterAction and 866 MYVOTE 1/Watch the Vote told Fox Philadelphia the groups filed a motion to compel the Board of Elections to provide emergency paper ballots in all polling locations.  Their request cited 8 polling locations where machines went down Tuesday morning and voters were allegedly not given emergency ballots and were not able to vote or forced to wait to vote for hours.

The groups wanted the court to ensure paper ballots be ready for the evening voting rush.

At 9:30 this morning, it says 126 voters from across the state had called the hotline to complain about a problem they experienced at the polls. Nearly 43% had to deal with their voter registration. One Berks County voter tells 69 News he was one of four people who were turned away by poll workers in Exeter Township this morning because the county had not updated its registration information. He says he was told he could register again and vote in November.

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But the light might not stay green for long.

A growing number of studies by technology experts show that the machines, mostly bought and deployed within the past five years, can easily be hacked and can lose or miscount votes. Election officials in New Jersey, California and South Carolina encountered malfunctions or miscounts during recent presidential primaries.

...owing to the large number of Democrats expected to cast ballots in that party's heated presidential primary race, but they're ready.

Poll workers have attended classes to prepare them. The department will increase the number of voting machines in districts with large numbers of Democratic voters and will have more phones and computers on hand than usual.