Election Day voting problems MO, NV, MI, PA, FL

Startling reports of voting problems have already started coming in from Missouri, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida.

In Missouri, Ourvotelive.org is reporting that more than 700 voters waited over eight hours to cast absentee ballots in Kansas City. The voters were reportedly given misinformation and told to return to the polls after they closed.

Bradblog.com is reporting widespread problems in Nevada and Michigan.

Here's a CNN story that details various problems in nearly a dozen states. CBS news has a similar roundup along with hundreds of other reporters instantly clued in to the disastrous election system in this country.

As expected in Philladelphia, voting machines have broken down forcing poll workers to hand out emergency paper ballots. You can thank the NAACP and not the Obama campaign or the Democratic secretary of state.

Here's an interesting bit of information about absentee voting in Florida. Those in Oregon, where we vote entirely by mail, and Washington where they vote almost entirely by mail, take for granted that we are notified when our signature doesn't appear to match and we have until 10 days after the election to correct it. If there is no signature, however, the ballot is thrown out.

In Florida, any absentee ballot that a poll judge deems the signature doesn't match, that ballot is immediately thrown out. Roughly 500 ballots out of 1,600 in Jacksonville, Florida were thrown out because of this. No ifs ands or buts about it. That's it. No notice. No nothing.

Also in Florida, long lines are being cause by the voter registration computer system, and not the optical scanners.

By the way, are we so jaded in this country by the low expectations of "democracy" that we accept having to wait in enormous lines to cast a ballot. As one African American woman ured at Videothevote.org said in Florida about the lines, "People need to just get over themselves." I'm sorry but eight-hour lines, one-hour lines for that matter, are unacceptable in the United States of America. These election officials knew there would be high voter turnout. These long lines are no accident.