Election Day - Voting Problems

We've known this day, Election Day, was coming for a year now. Actually, the campaigning started long before. So, what's the problem?

We've got Voting Booths that are breaking down. We've got back up voting ballots getting wet and needing time to get dry.

There are 2 1/2 hour long waits. And they all say that the problems are coming from the largest voter turn out in history.

For years, we've been trying to get more and more people to vote. But, this year people are listening and they are showing up at peak hours. Before work, at lunch and directly after work will be the most congested times the polls will be busy.

But, those aren't the only problems. The tricks people have been playing are outrageous. They've been used before...I know. But with the internet, there was a greater chance for them to work.

Internet scams ranged from telling the public voting was canceled at certain locations to putting up mock websites meant to deceive readers. People would enter the website thinking its for a certain candidate and it would be full of information against that candidate. Ok, that's been done in the past with television commercials and radio spots. But, the internet is so much more powerful for some reason than either of those two other medias...or any other media for that fact.

I'm just glad that it seems no one is falling for any of it. People are voting...in drogues. It's a great thing.

I'm going to vote a little later this afternoon. Then I'm going to come home, sit in front of my fireplace and watch the news all night long. I want to be one of the first to hear.