Originally Posted by kane

In the rolling stone article they talked about two things that really pissed me off in the 2004 presidential election. In Ohio in the republican heavy areas of the state they had plenty of voting machines and the wait was pretty short. In the democrat heavy areas they had a huge shortage of machines and the wait was often 4-5 hours. Also there were several "glitches" where there were huge turnouts for bush and not kerry. In a few counties bush ended up getting several thousand more votes then there were registered voters. This happened several times and were explained as a "glitch" and were supposedly taken care of.

Also in Ohio the rule had always been if you accidentally show up at the wrong precinct to vote at they get your info, call the correct one and verify you are on the rolls and let you vote. In the republican heavy areas they were told that rule still applied. In the democrat heavy areas the people running the polls were told that if a person was in the wrong place they could help them find the right place, but that they had to then go to that place to vote. So you wait in line 4 hours only to be told you have to go somewhere else to wait in line another 4 hours.