SK790 wrote:I forgot ND has stupid rules in regards to polls closing.

Maybe the rest of the country will realize how much more convenient it is to vote by mail next cycle.

Reuters, in NYTimes wrote: Insight: Mail-In Ballots: The Hanging Chads of 2012?

...mail-in ballot voters who manage to get a ballot to election officials are about four times more likely to see their vote go uncounted as those who vote in person,[Charles Stewart III, co-director of the Voting Technology Project and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor] calculates.

Add in the number of ballots never sent to voters who request them and ballots that don't make it to the polling station, and approximately one in five mail-in votes may be lost, Stewart says.

bleh wrote:this is great

jerseyhoya wrote:Actual important point - Virginia closes early, 7 PM, and counts votes quickly - We could get a pretty quick read on where things are going. If Obama wins VA by 3%+, it should be a quick night. If Romney wins VA by 3%+, it's a sign that the state polls might have #$!&@ up real bad. If it's inside that, then maybe whatever is happening state specific, and it could be a long night.

Grotewold wrote:My father in law informed me Obama will eliminate healthcare for seniors and outsource the auto industry to China. Shaking things up for me at this most critical juncture

JFLNYC wrote:It's an election, not a hoedown.