Not to compare apples and oranges, but Cleveland has about 1,000,000 voters and they only have one early voting location (and it is horrible in terms of parking). Columbus has 800,000 voters and only one early voting site.

But I feel better about LA because at least they have ballot integrity concerns. All over Ohio, they have ballot on demand printers printing out thousands of different ballot styles and almost no inventory control.

But clearly for very little cost LA could have rented three or four locations and taken a pile of ballots or used ballot-on-demand at these locations.

Oh, elections officials, why must you taunt us so. Zero accountability and zero repercussions for your ineptitudes or violations of federal and state election laws.

Just watching the Maddow show and she talked to Obama staffers about the various problems with early voting, voter suppression etc and she stated that they were right on top of it, knew about every story she related and had an explanation for why it wasn't as bad as it may appear, which seemed to surprise her, but she said she was left with the impression that they were absolutely aware of exactly what was going on around the country.

WTF? Nov 5th is too late for action. But if McCain has to pack small rallies with a majority of bussed in students maybe the Obama people are just know what they're doing. IF McCain won by a margin as narrow as Bush did in either (stolen) election, Obama's people should have their pick of which battle to fight and win decisively. That's still a terrible political position to be in though: no 'mandate', no change. I'm just stuck on 'WTF?' these days, my own cynical conspiracy theories aside.

I'm bummed, here in Missouri we have no early voting. The 4th is going to be a horror.

Madison, WI has one early voting place. I just voted and only had to wait two hours.
Brad - A Voting machine has been confiscated for registering wrong votes
http://coloradoindepende...switched-candidates-vote

What would be the best place to report disenfranchisement issues? I.E. not on registered voter list, not the right kind of ID, not a match, challenged at the polls, couldn't wait in line that long, breakdown of equipment and no chance to cast your vote, etc etc. It would be amazing to get a count of sorts for these issues. Is there a separate web site for logging in these types of things?

the DOJ's schedule for monitoring on Election Day is up at Wash Post; either they will do the right thing, as the law will require, or they will do what they did in 2000 and 2004, which is nothing:

Justice Dept. Will Send 800 Monitors to Polls
http://voices.washington...l_send_800_mon.html#more

Dean Logan, evm shill.

I'll just quote from a comment I posted earlier in another thread:

... by adding evm's to the mix would be just another version of "e-voting's last refuge" which is always different and yet is always the same: "We can't have made such a colossal screwup. We can't... we just can't live without evms! Why? ... because!"

Metaphorically speaking what Dean and the other shills are trying to say is that we'll have to pry the evm vendors' cocks from the shills' cold politically-neutralized asses.

And while I believe Obama's apparent decision to attempt to override the electoral gaming with sheer numbers is a badly flawed strategy... we really do have to make sure to vote this year of all years...

We'll have to nuke them at the polls November 4th. It's the only way to sure.

Afterwards we'll have to deal with Dean's evm addiction via a cold turkey treatment.

GEORGIA

My Experience Early Voting in Fulton Co., GA - on the Vanilla Side of Town 10-30-2008

First of all, let me say that heretofore when voting at my usual precinct I have never seen more than 10-15 people at the polls when voting. It’s usually just 5 [tops] and occasionally, just lonesome me. But tonight was a totally different experience.

Fulton County has 6 locations for Early Voting from 8:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. I vote on the North side of town. I got to my Early Voting location at 6:10 p.m. The line was very long – possibly 1/8 mile – outside the building. I entered the building around 7:00 p.m. and saw that people were queued into 6 or 7 packed lines. I finished voting at 9:20 p.m. There were about 10 voting machines at this site. I asked a worker how many people came through yesterday and she quoted a figure close to 3,000. Unbelieveable!!! And there was [finally] a racially mixed group of people in line with me tonight, but still a bit heavy on the vanilla.

During the long wait I had a chance to talk to people around me about the dreadful machines. I was pretty amazed that they all were aware of problems with the machines and agreed 100% we need to trash them.

My county had about 10 screens to muddle through to choose all the candidates and vote on 3 amendments to the state constitution. It would have been horrible if I had not done my homework in advance and knew what those amendments meant underneath the legalese. It took me about 6 or 7 minutes to cast my vote even so. Plus, I was double/triple checking to make sure the machine didn’t overtly flip my choices. It didn’t. Who knows what happens to my vote now.

Crossing my fingers we're NUKING them at the polls.

Yet again, Dean Logan is worse than wrong.

Just one early voting location is indeed a subtle form of vote suppression.

What about inactive voters? What about provisional voting?

Inactive voters, people believed to have moved, do not receive mail ballots, but are still eligible to vote.

Where are they supposed to vote?

King County Washington has roughly 1.2m registered voters. Should the county ultimately adopt "vote by mail", King County Elections projects that 40,000 voters will use the new regional voting centers (the new poll sites).

Further, King County will issue 10,000s of provisional ballots for this upcoming general election.

Doesn't "scandal" imply that there's some insidious operation at work here? Some evildoer trying to disenfranchise people for his own nefarious gains?

There is no chance in HELL that either DC or California's electoral votes will go to anyone but Obama. DC votes 90% democrat. California isn't far behind. Why on earth would anyone intentionally try to disenfranchise someone in these places? It just doesn't matter.

Seriously. This is not a scandal, and the outcome of the presidential election will can in no way be affected in DC or California. It's just run of the mill incompetence of the sort we see all the time (especially here in DC).

I'm not saying it's a good thing, but save your cries of "scandal" for Ohio, Florida and Virginia where it actually matters... and the slimeballs are certainly already at work as they were 8 years ago.

I'm a DC absentee voter who lives overseas. Because my absentee ballot had not arrived by last week, I used the Federal Absentee Write in Ballot to send my vote in well before the deadline last week - being DC, the write-in ballot has all the same options as the regular ballot, because there is only a federal election on Nov. 4.

In true DC fashion (i.e. total incompetence), my absentee ballot arrived TODAY (it is 10:30 am on Nov. 4 here in China). I had a good laugh at it, but overseas voters should always be aware of their options for write-in ballots and NOT count on city officials - especially DC officials - to do anything right.