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closing times in Miami-Dade County, Fla.,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], even after President Barack Obama was projected Tuesday night as winning re-election over Republican Mitt Romney. Long waits were also common in Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee and elsewhere.
Most states allow voters who were in line when polls closed to cast ballots. Candidates,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], political operatives and their supporters turned to social media to encourage voters through the long wait. "(hash)StayInLine (hash)StayInLine (hash)StayInLine,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Wisconsin Democratic Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin tweeted.
"If you were in line before your poll closed you still have the right to vote,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," film director Spike Lee tweeted. "We are counting on you."
Other problems with voter access,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], machine failures and some legal skirmishes, especially in Pennsylvania, were scattered, but there didn't appear to be any wholesale disenfranchisement of voters. Tense confrontations among poll monitors were few,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and no major instances of election fraud were reported.
"Despite the shameful attempts to suppress voting, voters are standing up,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," said Bob Edgar, president and chief executive of Common Cause.
High turnout rather than glitches appeared to be the cause of the long lines, but there were plenty of other problems around the country. In Pennsylvania,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the day began with a confrontation involving Republican inspectors over access to some polls and a voting machine that lit up for Romney even when a voter pressed the Obama button.
The Election Protection coalition of civil rights and voting access groups said they had gotten more than 80,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 complaints and questions on a toll-free voter protection hotline.
In Philadelphia, the Republican Party said 75 legally credentialed voting inspectors were blocked from polling places in the heavily Democratic city, prompting the GOP to obtain a court order to gain access. Local prosecutors were also looking into the reports. Democratic Party officials did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Also in Pennsylvania, Department of State spokesman Ron Ruman said the voting machine in the central part of the state that switched a person's vote from Obama to Romney was put back into service after being recalibrated. Video of what Ruman called a "momentary glitch" was widely viewed on YouTube.
Pennsylvania was also the scene of what a state Common Cause official called "widespread" confusion over voter ID requirements. The state this year enacted a new photo ID requisite, but a judge put it on hold for Tuesday's election amid concern many voters would not be able to comply in time.
Barry Kauffman, executive director of Common Cause in Pennsylvania, said election workers in many places were demanding IDs even though they are not required. Whitlock said the calls with the erroneous election date went to those voters mistakenly Tuesday; a second call went out advising them of the error.
In Ohio,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], officials in Franklin County, seat of the state's capital,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], barred the tea party-linked True the Vote group from monitoring polling places because applications to do so weren't filed properly.
Catherine Engelbrecht, president of the Houston-based group,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], claimed the Ohio Democratic Party had pressured several local candidates to withdraw their permission for the group's members to act as election observers.
Both political parties in Nebraska accused each other of voter disenfranchisement after a woman claimed she was handed a ballot already filled out for Romney and Republican Rep. Lee Terry a situation elections officials chalked up to a mistake. The GOP, meanwhile,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], contended some voters were being falsely told in recorded phone calls that they were ineligible to cast ballots.
In New Orleans,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], advocates said they received several complaints from large Vietnamese-American communities that in at least three major polling places, language services were not provided to voters needing help with translations. Of particular concern were several proposed constitutional amendments and ballot initiatives,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said Jennifer Coco, a volunteer field director with the Louisiana Election Protection Program.
Meanwhile, voters in several storm-ravaged areas in New York and New Jersey expressed relief and even elation at being able to vote at all, considering the devastation from Superstorm Sandy. Many people still have no power eight days after Sandy pummeled the shore.
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