turnout reports, voting problems, and last minute dirty tricks

[Erich Maria Remarque]

Are there any preliminary estimations of turnout? Gallup told us it would be lower than 12' ...

[The Other Castro]

Is there any estimation of turnout? Gallup told us it would be lower than 12' ...

Michael McDonald from ElectProject predicted 135,000,000.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Voting hours will be extended by 20 minutes at one location in DeKalb County, Georgia, after an electrical fire caused temporary evacuation of the site.  http://www.ajc.com/news/local/election-day-atlanta-polling-site-evacuated-after-fire/9st3wCxgGHgbmN73shzRoI/

[Tintrlvr]

Is there any estimation of turnout? Gallup told us it would be lower than 12' ...

Clearly wrong in Florida and more generally across most of the states that are heavy on early vote. Harder to say in the Midwest and Northeast states in particular because more voting will happen day-of there, and we don't get much in the way of live updates of who has voted during the day. It's still possible turnout is down overall even if it is up in some key states, but I would guess overall higher turnout than 2012 at this point, though not by a huge margin (and not at 2008 levels).

[Mike88]

Is there any estimation of turnout? Gallup told us it would be lower than 12' ...

I think we'll have to wait for the final numbers. Here in Portugal, in 2015, we also had reports of high turnout over day but in the last hour or so, voting drooped massively. But, the consensus is that is higher than 4 years ago. We'll see.

[xavier110]

Messed-up voting in Maricopa County, Arizona (Greater Phoenix). Lots of voters rejected irrespective of Party. 

That's a shocker. Finally time for Helen Purcell and her old-lady coif to get booted out of office today. Her office has been an absolute disaster this election season and she's paying the price. I voted by mail 2 weeks ago but I don't believe Maricopa county has a way to verify that your ballot was received and counted (this is my first year VBM here). No surprise they can't even get in person voting right.

You can check on the Maricopa board of elections site. Mine was received + counted.

[Ozymandias]

Ken Rice ‏@kenricekdka  10m10 minutes ago
PA official: Voter turnout today could exceed 80%. Would be highest total since Bill Clinton vs George HW Bush in 1992 (83%)

[GeorgiaModerate]

From 538's live blog:

All Is Well, Says The Philadelphia District Attorney

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams said that despite widespread concerns about voter intimidation and voter fraud, today’s election in Philadelphia has been normal and without major incident.

“We have no founded complaints of intimidation, no founded complaints of voter fraud,” he said during an afternoon news conference. “We have no walking apocalypse of zombies voting all over town. We don’t have it.” The zombie quip is a reference to claims of voter fraud involving people who have died still “casting votes.”

Williams said that his office’s Election Fraud Task Force had received 69 calls as of 2 p.m., which is on par with the number of calls the task force has received the last three presidential elections. Among the calls received by the task force, there were:

13 complaints of electioneering
Five calls about illegal assistance
15 calls about voter assistance
10 calls of machine problems
The task force deployed teams of investigators to look into more than 30 complaints today, but the dispositions of those complaints haven’t yet been released. Most of the calls received by the task force were associated with people going to the wrong polling place.

Williams’ assertions though that today is a normal Election Day doesn’t jibe with claims from Philadelphia GOP executive director Joe DeFelice that “voter suppression, disenfranchisement and intimidation” is happening at polling places across Philadelphia. DeFelice told Billy Penn that Republican poll inspectors were denied entry or thrown out of polling stations across the city. However, Assistant District Attorney Andrew Wellbrook said no one had called the task force’s hotline to complain about the issue since 8 a.m. this morning.

The district attorney also said he was aware that Twitter was abuzz about the activities of James O’Keefe, a conservative activist who tweeted that he was “in Philadelphia tailing a pastor’s bus that’s bussing people to the polls.” Williams emphasized that taking people to the polls isn’t illegal.

[Erich Maria Remarque]

Is there any estimation of turnout? Gallup told us it would be lower than 12' ...

Michael McDonald from ElectProject predicted 135,000,000.

So just 56% of eligible voters? Wow, it is sooo low.

[The Other Castro]

Lindsey Graham voted for Evan McMuffin.

[Crumpets]

Lindsey Graham voted for Evan McMuffin.

FF!

[Tintrlvr]

Democrats inching up in Broward and Hillsborough in Florida relative to the Republicans as later voters come in. Republican edge for on-the-day voters is down to +3,200 in Hillsborough (peaked around +4,000 at noon, had been steady around +3,600 since around 1 with nearly all the drop from +3,600 happening since 3:30 or so), and Republicans have now fallen behind Other in Broward (were ahead of Other for the whole day until now).

[IceSpear]

Ken Rice ‏@kenricekdka  10m10 minutes ago
PA official: Voter turnout today could exceed 80%. Would be highest total since Bill Clinton vs George HW Bush in 1992 (83%)

Splendid news!

[Classic Conservative]

My mom was #1101 at our polling place.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Lindsey Graham voted for Evan McMuffin.

How? He wasn't on the ballot when I voted

[swf541]

Lindsey Graham voted for Evan McMuffin.

How? He wasn't on the ballot when I voted

Write in?

[Joe Biden is your president. Deal with it.]

https://mobile.twitter.com/sharonclott/status/795980568265625601

Anddd my polling station was full of people

[Ebsy]

High turnout basically makes Philly's wall of Democratic voters insurmountable for Republicans. Their only hope was a low turnout election there.

[The Free North]

Drudge is going all out for Trump here on his website. Says he's up in key states....no sources listed at all.

[IceSpear]

High turnout basically makes Philly's wall of Democratic voters insurmountable for Republicans. Their only hope was a low turnout election there.

Yep, Philly is gonna deliver!

[RI]

I though McMullin was on the ballot in SC?

[swf541]

I though McMullin was on the ballot in SC?

I thought he was a registered write in?

[Hammy]

I though McMullin was on the ballot in SC?

Same--SC was shaded as 'on-ballot' when I checked last night.

[Classic Conservative]

My aunt got exit polled in NH!

[RI]

My aunt got exit polled in NH!

How angry was she?