Officials in Ohio promised that today's election would go smoothly despite the expected record turnout. Of course we have to remember that this is Ohio, and things will go a little crazy no matter what. The votes have not even begun to have been counted yet, and there are already myriad problems across the state.
From RawStory:
An elections official in Ohio predicted the state would "shine" in tabulating results for Tuesday's primary elections, despite the state's history of voting problems. However, there had been scattered reports of confusion and delay by early afternoon.One of the most dramatic problems Tuesday had nothing to do with ballot designs or electronic voting machines. A polling place at a northeast Ohio school closed for 90 minutes because of a bomb threat.
The threat was called in around 9:30 a.m., and about 14 voters were turned away while a bomb-sniffing dog searched the school, according to the Associated Press. All 14 voters said they would return to the polling place later Tuesday. No bomb was found and the school re-opened around 11 a.m.
And that was just the beginning of it. There were tabs you had to rip off that said not to rip off, people that accidentally voted for Dennis Kucinich and then there were stories of polling locations with multiple machine breakdowns and no remedies for the problem. So after almost four years since the state elections people screwed up voting for their fellow Ohioans, not much has changed....and I doubt much will happen before November either.
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