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Independent_Liberal

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Wed Nov 5, 2014, 05:10 PM Nov 2014

Reuters: Voting Probs Across Nation, Bizarre Targeting of '2,000 Election Judges' In Chicago

This from BradBlog.com

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10924

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While most of the media is reporting the huge Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate tonight, and the big GOP wins in a whole bunch of Governor's races, Reuters notices that there were a lot of problems for voters across the country today...

(Reuters) - Voting machine and voter identification problems emerged in some U.S. states on Tuesday when Americans went to the polls in midterm elections that will shape the final two years of Barack Obama's presidency.
Although a full picture of the problems was not yet clear, officials and voting rights advocates reported machine failures in North Carolina and Texas, polling breakdowns in a key Florida county and an overall increase in the number of people reporting they were turned away for lack of proper identification.


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