And then there were the scores of problems at the polls today.  In Philadelphia, a number of African American callers reported that polls failed to open on time and that machines did not work.  At one polling place, voters were turned away for lack of extension cords!  "I am furious," said one caller.

And there were other, even more serious, problems with voting machines.  In Texas and Florida, voters repeatedly have called to tell us that their efforts to vote for the candidate of their choice were stymied by machines that seemed to have minds of their own.  In Collins County, Texas, for example, a caller bristled as she described what happened to her. "I got up to the machine and I tried to vote for Chris Bell, who's a Democrat, instead of a Republican..  I am a registered Republican but I wanted to vote for Chris Bell.  I tried three times to vote for Chris Bell and I am so frustrated because every time I voted for Chris Bell, Rick Perry, the Republican,  had a cross by his name."