Voting machine, ID problems crop up in U.S. elections
Source: 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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In North Carolina, where a strict election law barring provisional voting outside a voter's normal precinct was upheld last month by the U.S. Supreme Court, voting was briefly halted at one precinct after officers responded to an altercation between voters and election officials, according to the state's Democratic Party.
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And in Chicago, more than 2,000 election judges - a fifth of the total - failed to show up at polling places after automated phone calls beginning on Saturday falsely informed them that they were unqualified without additional training.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/05/us-usa-elections-irregularities-idUSKBN0IP06M20141105
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