Our Vote Live hot-line reports and judges weigh in from Virginia, Colorado

I've reposted below from Ourvotelive.org. This is a daily summary of the 8,000 reports received yesterday alone into its 1-877-Our-Vote hot line to report problems facing voters throughout the country.

But first, I'm starting to lean toward problem states being Pennsylvania, Virginia and Colorado, but they each may have large enough margins for Obama not to matter. Both PA and VI were identified along with Ohio for being ill-prepared for voter turnout by the Advancement Project. There was a lawsuit by NAACP and others in PA over paper ballots that we've read about here and the Bradblog, which reports many PA counties still can't comply.

In Virginia, last week a similar suit was filed over disparities in how polling place sites were distributed and how ill-prepared the state is to handle voter turnout, especially in poor and minority areas. A judge is expected to hear the case today.

In Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman is a dilinquint who thinks he can do whatever he wants.

Just hours after agreeing to restore 20,000 voters to rolls who a judge ruled were improperly purged, Coffman just plain flaunted the judges ruling and purged another 145. The judge on Friday demanded Coffman restore those voters too.

Get this, according to this Denver Post story:

In a statement, Coffman said he believed the judge's original order did not require him to stop the purges but rather said the settlement left the "processes leading up to Election Day" unchanged.

So a judge tells you not to do something and you think he's just referring to that something you did before, and not the same something you plan to continue doing. How interesting. Coffman's going to make a great Congressman.

By the way, be sure to check out PBS Now's terrific coverage of America's election system.

Some key issues from the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law's OurVoteLive.org:

• Katrina displacement: People who moved out of their damaged homes after hurricane Katrina are reporting confusion about their registration status and voting precinct to Election Protection's 866-OUR-VOTE hotline. Voting rights experts are working to resolve these questions to ensure that all eligible voters from the New Orleans area can exercise their right to vote in this historic election.

• Absentee voting problems are being widely reported, with particularly high rates in Virginia, Ohio and Florida. In one example, a caller from Florida had requested absentee ballots for herself and her husband, a stroke survivor who is unable to go to the polls. Neither ballot has arrived and if they don’t, she will be unable to vote as she is unable to leave her husband’s side to go to the polls.

• Polling place problems – such as extremely long lines – are of great concern to voters in Florida and Georgia, particularly in Miami-Dade and Broward counties in Florida, and Fulton County in Georgia.