 Voters cast their ballots in Mansfield, Texas, on Tuesday.  A man votes inside the Town Hall in Franconia, Minnesota.  Horse Gall precinct clerk David Smith talks with poll worker and daughter-in-law Charlene Smith at the home of his father, Vincent Smith, in Varnville, South Carolina. The precinct's polling place is in the elder Smith's den.  A woman walks out of a polling place after voting in South Jordan, Utah. The Jordan River Utah Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is visible in the background.  A voter's shadow appears on the wall as he arrives at a Phoenix, Arizona, polling station Tuesday.  Penn State students wait in line to vote in the student union building on the State College, Pennsylvania, campus.  Voters enter the polling site at StarBridge Christian Center in Wildwood, Missouri.  Robert Palmer, left, and Pat Payne wait in line to cast their vote at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Kansas City, Missouri.  Three-term Democratic congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Chris Murphy casts his vote with his 1-year-old son Rider at Cheshire High School in Cheshire, Connecticut.  A voter casts her ballot in the gymnasium of Douglas Elementary School in Raleigh, North Carolina.  An elderly women casts her vote at Salem Baptist Church in Sparta, Virginia. Her home state is a hotly contested battleground in this tight presidential race.  A man exits a voting booth at a fire station in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. As the New Jersey coastline continues to recover from Superstorm Sandy, numerous polling stations have had to merge and relocate due to storm damage and power outages.  Gaberyel Chandler casts his vote with the help of safety patrol officer Cheyenne Roberts during a mock presidential election Tuesday at Emerald Shores Elementary School in Ocala, Florida.  Adults of the Uddin family, originally from Bangladesh, vote together at the Hightower Elementary School polling site in Doraville, Georgia.  Kezia Gipson, 3, waits with her grandparents Doris Ross and Freddie Irvin in a voting line at the International Longshoremen's Association Office in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, on Tuesday.  A carved pumpkin greets voters at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.  Kaira Ray watches as her grandmother Theresa Bigl votes at the old Town Hall in Bristol, New Hampshire.  Samantha Pelletier shows off her voting sticker outside Bristol's old Town Hall.  A poll worker directs people to a temporary polling center in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York. Polling sites in Coney Island and the surrounding area were damaged during Superstorm Sandy.  A sign directs disabled voters to a polling site entrance at the Graham & Parks School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Amy O'Neill, left, and Michelle Nowakowski show off an "I Voted" sticker on their Boston terrier Penny in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Voters cast their ballots at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C.  People cast their ballots inside a decorator's garage in South Philadelphia on Tuesday.  A person votes at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.  A jogger on The Strand in the Los Angeles area community of Hermosa Beach passes a directional sign to a polling place at sunrise Tuesday.  Darrick West stands at a voting booth at Salem Baptist Church, on Tuesday, November 6 in Sparta, Virginia. The state is one of several hotly contested battlegrounds, with recent polls showing the race between President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney remains tight.  Republican vice presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan and his family head to the polls in Janesville, Wisconsin.  People line up to cast their ballots at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C.  A voter takes a moment to read a paper ballot before casting her vote on Chicago's Northside.  Voters mark paper ballots at Halloran Skating Rink in Cleveland, Ohio.  Derrick Banks wears an "I Voted" sticker on his forehead after casting his ballot in Chicago.  Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, kiss after casting their votes in Belmont, Massachusetts.  Stickers for voters are seen at Tremont Elementary School in Cleveland, Ohio.  Voters line up to cast their vote at the Boston Public Library in Romney's home state of Massachusetts.  Citizens wait in line at a polling station in a senior appartment complex in Chicago.  A citizen votes at Carleton Middle School in Sterling Heights, Michigan.  Voters line up at the Mount Pleasant Library early Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio. The state, with its coveted 18 electoral votes, is one of the key battlegrounds in the race between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.  Vice President Joe Biden, center, heads toward the voting booth in Greenville, Delaware.  Voters in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, wait to cast the first Election Day ballots of the U.S. presidential race shortly after midnight. The village has opened polls early since 1960, but for the first time in its history, there was a tie. Obama and Romney each received five votes.  Voters wait outside the Johnson County election office in Olathe, Kansas, on Monday, November 5, the last day of early voting.  Residents of Ocean County vote in Toms River, New Jersey, on Monday. A special early mail voting arrangement allows residents of the areas affected by Superstorm Sandy to vote in person with a mail-in ballot on short notice.  Two-year-old Ariel Ferreras accompanies his mother, Erika, as she votes in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Friday, November 2. Voters in Maryland broke the state's record for early voting turnout.  Early voters fill out their ballots on the first day of early voting in Miami on October 27. Early voting in the swing state of Florida was held for eight straight 12-hour days.  An election worker helps President Barack Obama as he votes early at the Martin Luther King Community Center in Chicago on October 25.  Carol Braddock of Los Angeles casts her vote in Norwalk, California, on October 25.  Jalani Hervey, 5, waits with his grandmother, Victoria Gross, while she stands in line to cast a ballot during early voting in Milwaukee on October 22.  Election judges William Moeller, left, and Harry Sabin transfer ballots from a drop box outside of the library in Denver on October 22.  Phignora Brown, left, gets assistance from a polling station worker as she casts her ballot on the first day of early voting in Las Vegas on October 20.  Electronic voting authorization cards are returned at the East Las Vegas Community Center polling station on October 20.  A man uses a touch screen voting booth to cast his ballot on the first day of early voting in Washington on October 22.  Jaime Grant carries her 11-month-old daughter, Brynn, and holds her 3-year-old son Brian's hand as she casts her ballot during early voting in College Park, Georgia, on October 19.  A voter displays an "I Voted" sticker on her lapel after voting early in Wilson, North Carolina, on October 18.  Kalli Hannafious holds her daughter Averie as she signs in for early voting in Anchorage, Alaska on October 2.  Jerry Nagel fills in his ballot during early voting at the Black Hawk County Courthouse in Waterloo, Iowa, on September 27, the first day of early voting in the state.                                                      
CNN is covering Election Day right now on CNN TV, CNN.com and via CNN's mobile apps. Check up-to-the-minute results at cnn.com/results and join our live blog at cnn.com/conversation. Need other reasons to spend Election Day with CNN? Here's our list. (CNN) -- Long lines and sporadic problems with voting machines caused snags in some key states during Tuesday's closely watched U.S. election. Voters waited for up to four hours in Virginia and three hours in some parts of south Florida, leading some to walk away before casting a ballot. In Pinellas County, Florida, which includes St. Petersburg, officials had to send a corrective message to 12,000 absentee voters after an automated call told them they needed to get their ballot in "tomorrow." The message was supposed to have gone out Monday, but was sent out Tuesday due to a computer glitch, said Nancy Whitlock, a spokeswoman for the county supervisor of elections. Several complaints came out of Pennsylvania, including two cases in which a voting machine had to be recalibrated after voters complained that it incorrectly displayed their vote for president. Election officials in the two counties where the incidents occurred said the voters were able to cast ballots for their intended candidate, and there were no further complaints once the machines were fixed. In Philadelphia, nonpartisan election monitors from Philadelphia's Committee of Seventy said two voting machines had broken down at one precinct on the city's north side, forcing poll workers to issue provisional ballots. That slowed down an already long line, and at least 30 voters had dropped out, the group said. When will we know the results? A judge in the heavily Democratic city ordered election officials to cover a mural of President Barack Obama at one city school that was being used as a polling location Tuesday morning after Republicans complained the painting violated electioneering laws. GOP poll monitors were being escorted into precincts by sheriff's deputies after some observers had been denied access earlier in the day, said Tasha Jamerson, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office. As many as 64 of the monitors had been turned away before a judge ordered election officials to admit them, the local Republican Party chapter said. One of the complaints about misbehaving electronic voting machines occurred in Millertown, in central Pennsylvania's Perry County, where election officials said they recalibrated the unit after one voter recorded a video of it registering a vote for Obama as one for his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.   First exit poll results  Romney in Pennsylvania to fire voters up  U.S. election 'watch parties' in Europe  CNN's interactive election tools The video drew thousands of comments on YouTube and was first confirmed by NBC News. But Ron Ruman, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania secretary of state's office, told CNN the machine was taken offline after the man complained about it, election workers recalibrated it and there have been no more complaints. A second complaint emerged later Tuesday in Lewisburg, in nearby Union County. Andy Hirsch told CNN that he pressed the box to select Obama several times, only to see the machine indicate a vote for Romney. Hirsch also captured the scene on video, showing him pressing the Obama box several times before the vote registered correctly. Hirsch said he reported the problem to a volunteer poll worker who was calm and receptive to the issue and told him the machine had been having problems all day. "I thought, gee, that's probably not the reaction to have when casting a ballot for president of the United States," he said. The worker suggested he use a pencil eraser to finish his ballot, but the video he shot shows the same issue. Hirsch said he saw workers shutting down the machine as he left. Greg Katherman, Union County's director of elections, confirmed there was an issue with one voting machine, but said there were no further issues after the machine was recalibrated. In Covington, Virginia, a small town north of Roanoke, city officials reported problems with the programming of their voting machines and switched to paper ballots, the state Board of Elections reported. In New Jersey, state officials allowed voters displaced by Superstorm Sandy last week to cast ballots electronically or by fax. But they extended their deadline to submit those votes until Friday amid numerous complaints about the system. What to watch for on Election Night The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union went to court Tuesday afternoon on behalf of voters who said their requests for an electronic ballot weren't being acknowledged. "What's happening is they're not receiving any sort of response from their respective county election officials," said Katie Wang, a spokeswoman for the group. Voters still had to submit an application to vote electronically by 5 p.m. Tuesday, according to an executive order signed by Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno. But they had until 8 p.m. Friday to submit the ballots, the order states. And in New York, which was also smacked by Sandy, polling stations around New York City saw long, slow-moving lines. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's last-minute decree that any voter could vote at any precinct, a move intended to help those displaced by Sandy, made it "a little insane right now" at the polling station at Public School 41 in Greenwich Village, a poll coordinator there told CNN Tuesday afternoon. "So we have everybody coming in from everywhere," said the coordinator, a Republican who asked not to be named. "It was for displaced people, but others are taking advantage of it." Check up-to-the-minute results here CNN's Brad Rhoads, Ann Colwell, Sarah Hoye and Courtney Yager contributed to this report.   |
11/06/2012
Sporadic snags seen
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