These details are from drudgereport.com timestamped 17:12ET:
quote:
Exit poll mania spread through media and campaign circles Tuesday evening after exit data from big media sources claimed Kerry competitive in key states.... FL Kerry +1 PA Kerry+2-4 OH Kerry+1 WI Kerry+4 MI Kerry+2 NH Kerry +4 // Senate Winners: Martinez FL Thune SD Bunning KY Salazar CO // Losers: Bowles NC Coors Co [But early 2000 exit polls showed Gore +3 in Florida; showed Gore-Bush even in CO [Bush won by 9], 2000 exits showed Gore +4 in AZ [Bush won by 6]...
Earlier text indicated a marginal Kerry lead by 1% or so, but that's not terribly useful information.
Here's CNN's electoral vote results by state page. It'll likely be one of the fastest loading pages on the web with electoral results due to the performance of their server cluster.
This is a good site. They also have a poll watch where you can desigate up-to 10 races that you would like to watch including your local & state elections. It updates every two minutes.
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Here is a breakdown I've compiled from the information on these websites regarding which states we should hear results from first based on the time of day that their polls close:
7PM EST
Georgia 15 - Bush
South Carolina 8 - Bush
Virginia 13 - Bush
Vermont 3 - Kerry
Kentucky 8 - Bush
Indiana 11 - Bush
7:30PM EST
North Carolina 15 - Bush
West Virginia 5 - Bush
Ohio 20 - Bush
8PM EST
Florida 27 - Bush
Maryland 10 - Kerry
Delaware 3 - Kerry
New Jersey 15 - Kerry
Pennsylvania 21 - Kerry
Connecticut 7 - Kerry
Massachusetts 12 - Kerry
New Hampshire 4 3 - Kerry
Maine 4 - Kerry
Alabama 9 - Bush
Tennessee 11 - Bush
Illinois 21 - Kerry
Mississippi 6 - Bush
Missouri 11 - Bush
Oklahoma 7 - Bush
Washington D.C. 3 - Kerry
8:30PM EST
Arkanasas 6 - Bush
9PM EST
New York 31 - Kerry
Rhode Island 4 - Kerry
Michigan 17 - Kerry
Wisconsin 10 - Kerry
Louisiana 9 - Bush
Minnesota 10 - Kerry
North Dakota 3 - Bush
South Dakota 3 - Bush
Nebraska 5 - Bush
Kansas 6 - Bush
Texas 34 - Bush
New Mexico 5 - Bush
Colorado 9 - Bush
Wyoming 3 - Bush
Arizona 10 - Bush
10PM EST
Iowa 7 - Bush
Montana 3 - Bush
Utah 5 - Bush
Nevada 5 - Bush
11PM EST
Idaho 4 - Bush
Washington 11 - Kerry
Oregon 7 - Kerry
California 55 - Kerry
Hawaii 4 - Kerry
Machines malfunctioned, tempers flared and edgy voters often waited in lines for hours Tuesday to pick a president in a contentious race watched by thousands of monitors who expected the worst.
By nightfall on the East Coast, several local snafus had been reported but no widespread allegations of voting problems emerged. Florida, the state that was the epicenter of the 2000 election fiasco, was again a trouble spot, as nearly 40 votes may have been lost after nine voting machines in Palm Beach County ran out of battery power.
"So far, it's no big, but lots of littles," said Doug Chapin, director of the Election Reform Information Project, a nonpartisan research group. "We know of no major meltdowns anywhere along the lines some people were worried about."
Hyper-vigilance appeared to be the order of the day, which in some states prompted poll closures and unfounded complaints.
In New Jersey, for example, a suspicious substance later determined to be spilled salt prompted the two-hour closure of a Mount Laurel precinct. In Pennsylvania, zealous GOP election monitors complained that some Philadelphia voting machines already had thousands of recorded votes when the polls opened at 7 a.m.
Local election officials quickly explained that voting machines registered every vote ever cast on them - like mileage on a car odometer - and that did not constitute evidence of fraud.
"It's absolutely ridiculous," said Deputy City Commissioner Ed Schulgen.
In Colorado, Republican Party officials said a lawyer for the Democrats showed up at an Eagle County precinct with a list of registered GOP voters, planning to challenge them all. Democrats admitted it was true.
In other closely contested states - including Iowa and Michigan - the liberal group MoveOn.org was accused of disrupting local precincts. In Ohio, a woman filed a lawsuit on behalf of voters who didn't receive absentee ballots on time, asking they be allowed to cast provisional ballots. Later in the day, a Toledo federal judge granted her wish.
New touch-screen voting machines, which have been criticized by computer scientists and elections officials in various states as susceptible to hacking and malfunction, were used Tuesday in 29 states and the District of Columbia. Only in Nevada, for this election, did the machines produce the paper records that make recounts reliable.
In Florida, which gave the 2000 election to George W. Bush on the basis of 537 votes, ten touch-screen voting machines failed at various precincts in Broward County. Nearly half the state's voters were using the ATM-like machines.
Chellie Pingree, president of Common Cause and a former international election monitor, said a toll-free voting hot line established by her citizens' lobbying group had logged 50,000 calls by 3:45 p.m. EST.
Tuesday's high voter turnout could bring "more confusion to already overburdened, understaffed polling places," Pingree said. And many of those places, she added, "will have as many lawyers and poll challengers as they have people voting."
Tensions flared early at many of those sites. A Democratic official in Cleveland claimed he was thrown out of a church basement by a screaming poll judge. Another judge allowed him to return.
In Florida, two Bush supporters filed a lawsuit seeking at least $15,000 in damages, claiming they were punched, pushed, shoved and spat on by Democrats.
Provisional ballots, new this election, also prompted disaster fears because they could delay any recount efforts. Any voter whose name does not appear on precinct rolls is entitled to cast a provisional - or paper - ballot. But elections officials must individually certify them as being cast by registered voters before they can be counted.
"To a certain extent, provisional ballots are second-class votes," said Spencer Overton, a law professor at George Washington University. "You can cast a provisional ballot but we don't know if officials will count it."
A lawyer for Democratic nominee John Kerry's campaign said some Pennsylvania voters were prevented from voting when at least a dozen Allegheny County precincts ran out of provisional ballots. More ballots were on their way, and voters were encouraged to return later in the day.
Despite all the lawyers, election-rights activists and partisan voting monitors who descended on polls across the country intent on uncovering voter fraud, the biggest complaint appeared to be long lines that forced voters to wait hours, in queues that circled buildings and wound down streets.
Extremely high turnout, and massive voter-registration efforts by Democrats and Republicans, were considered the cause.
But in one New Orleans precinct, broken machines forced precinct workers to tell voters they would have to come back later, said an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
The complicated issue of counting absentee ballots also added to the confusing array of new machines and new state voting regulations prompted by the debacle of the last race for the White House.
States have differing and confusing rules about deadlines for such ballots. Some states, for example, allow absentee votes to be counted days after the election, provided they are postmarked by Nov. 2. Others mandate that mailed ballots received after Election Day do not count.
And in more than a dozen states, election officials missed the recommended deadline for mailing absentee ballots overseas, meaning soldiers risking their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan might not get them in time to vote.
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Peace is the Ablity to wait patiently in spite of panic brought on by uncertainty
aka deltacent aka deltater
Life may not be the party I had hoped for.......
But while I'm here I might just as well listen to the music and dance..
Indiana Bush 11
Kentucky Bush 8
Georgia Bush 15
Vermont Kerry 3
West Virginia Bush 5
BUSH 39
KERRY 3
for some odd reason, while the word "Ganya" was still just a thought-dropping in my head, I thought it'd only be four letters. But apparently it's five. yep.
By nightfall on the East Coast, several local snafus had been reported but no widespread allegations of voting problems emerged.
haha "snafus" I love that word
for some odd reason, while the word "Ganya" was still just a thought-dropping in my head, I thought it'd only be four letters. But apparently it's five. yep.
Latest CNN projections indicate Bush will win Alabama, Tennessee, and Oklahoma, and Kerry will win New Jersey, Illinois, D.C., Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Massachusetts.
either the thing I'm using for electoral votes is wrong or CNN is wrong
investigating....
for some odd reason, while the word "Ganya" was still just a thought-dropping in my head, I thought it'd only be four letters. But apparently it's five. yep.
for some odd reason, while the word "Ganya" was still just a thought-dropping in my head, I thought it'd only be four letters. But apparently it's five. yep.
11-02-2004 10:21 PM
investigating....
