"It is something that not only is Montgomery County going to have to consider, but the entire state," said Steve Harsman, director of the board of elections.

The letter, dated Oct. 31, accused Fulton County voter registration officials of failing to process absentee ballot requests and send out ballots in a timely manner.

The Washoe County Registrar of Voters staff couldn't finish the tally about 1:15 a.m. today because of an unusually high number of cartridges from voting machines that contained no votes.

The 180,253 ballots cast were a new record for the county. The turnout of 77.88 percent slightly exceeded predictions but was less than the record of 84 percent in 1980.

Georgia Democrats are calling for Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel to extend advanced voting on Saturday and Sunday after computer glitches caused a reported 500 people to wait two hours in line at a Fulton County polling place.
 

Thousands of Los Angeles County voters may not receive their mail-in ballots in time to actually mail them in, county officials said Wednesday.

Clerks were racing to process about 13,000 last-minute vote-by-mail applications while also handling 55,000 remaining voter registrations, said Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan.
 

At least two Palo Pinto County residents say they experienced early voting problems when the touch-screen voting machines they used kept switching their straight-party vote from Democratic to Republican.

“When I cast an early vote [Wednesday] at Palo Pinto County Courthouse, my vote was switched from Democrat to Republican right in front of my face - twice!” reported Lona Jones, a Precinct 1 county resident.

Though action to correct those voting machine malfunctions is being taken, election officials throughout the Northern Panhandle should take additional precautions.
"Early voting" began last week in West Virginia. It allows voters to go to their county courthouses and cast ballots in advance of election day, Nov. 4.
But in at least three counties, including Ohio, early voting has not gone entirely without challenges. Putnam and Jackson counties have reported headaches similar to that here in Wheeling.

Voters claim they tried to vote for McCain for President but the machine checked Obama instead.
At least three voters encountered the problem when casting their early ballot on Saturday morning. Franklin Boroughs says he intended to vote for Republican but rather the computer had checked the Democratic candidate instead.
Wanda and Barney Blasingim similarly said they tried to vote for McCain but the machine switched the vote.

Turnout was heavy at polling sites in Santa Fe and Albuquerque as early voting started Saturday.

In fact, waiting times were so long at a south-side Santa Fe location that some people who wanted to cast their ballots ahead of the Nov. 4 election gave up and left.

And people who tried to vote downtown at the Santa Fe County administration building on Grant Avenue found the front doors locked Saturday and a sign posted that blamed the Secretary of State's Office for misinformation mailed to voters about that site.

Thousands of voters across the country must reestablish their eligibility in the next three weeks in order for their votes to count on Nov. 4, a result of new state registration systems that are incorrectly rejecting them.
The challenges have led to a dozen lawsuits, testy arguments among state officials and escalating partisan battles. Because many voters may not know that their names have been flagged, eligibility questions could cause added confusion on Election Day, beyond the delays that may come with a huge turnout.