More exit poll data from PA showing small Clinton win.

[Stevepol]

Kathy Dopp sent the following information about the exit polls in PA:

As of about 6:10 p.m. Clinton was slightly leading Obama in the exit polls 51.6400% to 48%. This is too close to call. Current exit poll results are available here:

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/epolls/#PADEM

And two additional reports of problems w/ PA election systems today:

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/04/philly_voting_t.html

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/politics/Extended_Hours_Paper_Ballots.html

Voter Action, asked a Philadelphia judge to extend poll hours until 10 p.m., is making its case with voter affidavits. One Richard Brown, of the 5700 block of N. 12th Street in Philadelphia, swore an affidavit that both voting machines at his polling place were broken when he arrived there at 6:55 a.m. It took nearly two hours for the machines to be either repaired or replaced, according to Brown's affidavit, and more than an hour for election officials to produce paper provisional ballots. Roughly 75-100 would-be voters left before that, according to Brown's affidavit. However, the judge denied the request.

Note that PA does not have any post-election check in place for detecting or correcting any vote count errors and thus its election results can be assumed to be inaccurate.

Kathy also has some other information about the numerous voting problems experienced in he election which I'll put on another post.

[dkf]

1. I'm wondering why the Obama campaign doesn't coordinate

with each precinct to create contingency plans for problems.

If this country can't handle Primaries with record turnout, how can we handle the general?

[ananda]

2. looks even in IN

http://www.topnews.in/usa/polls-indiana-battle-evenly-poised-2261