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Voters face machine problems, long lines in some states

Before locking in your vote, you should review your ballot closely.

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If you’re like everyone else in the country, you’ve probably had just about enough.

Polling places can change, so it’s always good to make sure you know where to go to vote.

Most polls and predictions have Clinton winning comfortably Tuesday, but with many battleground states still in play, Trump has discussed voter fraud more over the past few weeks than he had previously. Osier, 63, moved to St. Petersburg from Georgia last month and promptly exercised her right to vote, casting a ballot for Clinton.

Depends on where you live. About 47 percent, or 6,593, of early votes were processed at the South Penn campus of Moore Norman Technology Center while 53 percent, or 7,332, of votes were processed at the Cleveland County Election Board.

Clinton has condemned Trump for referring to undocumented Mexican immigrants as “rapists” and promoting a ban on Muslims entering the USA, and for his long line of remarks about women that culminated in an audio in which he brags about grabbing women’s genitalia.

About 5 million people in California have already cast ballots in early voting, according to the data tracking firm Political Data Inc.

“I want to see everything honest”. An election worker will direct you to insert your ballot into the scanning unit to cast your vote.

In Florida, independent voters comprise 21 percent of the vote with Democrats and Republicans accounting for a near 39 percent each. As of midday, more than 176,000 ballots had been cast by millennials, according to Chicago Election Board Spokesman Jim Allen.

One story that continues to show up on social media is that people have cast a vote for one candidate and it’s recorded for another candidate. Different states have different early voting laws and report ballot returns inconsistently, and assumptions based on party affiliation are fallible at best.

States have a raft of fairly typical problems getting polling places up and running properly.

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The counting of votes begins when the polls close. She added: “The main issue has been electronic poll books that were unable to verify a person’s registration”.

Again, states have their own laws concerning that. In addition, turnout for black voters was down almost 15 percent in Edgecombe County, and more than 20 percent in Nash, Northampton and Halifax counties. Employers are not required to pay for the time off, and if employees have up to two non-working hours before the beginning of or at the end of their shifts, when polls are open, time off is not required.

Several hundred men volunteered to stand outside polling places in African-American neighborhoods to watch for trouble from outsiders – and didn’t find much, if any. That can be either current or expired within the past four years.

Thin margins separate candidates in all three races.

Broken or balky machines were reported in Utah, New York, Illinois, Kentucky, Texas, Virginia, Ohio, Connecticut and especially North Carolina.

Florida could surpass its overall vote total from 2012.

Pennsylvania is one of a handful of states that relies on electronic voting machines without a paper backup that would allow officials to double-check the outcome if it is challenged. In 17 states, a voter is allowed to request a recount.

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