More voting news for Ohio, the funniest of which is from my district: [link]

Two Republican House members reportedly encountered difficulties at their respective polling stations. U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot was said to be turned away for not having proper identification, and Rep. Jean Schmidt could not get the scanner to accept her ballot.

My minion tells me that CNN is reporting voting delays in Colorado due to a...rogue squirrel.

It apparently chewed through the extension cord on which the whole polling place was operating.

The squirrel obviously wants to gay-marry.

The computer wouldn't let right-wing/Libertarian talk show host Neil Boortz vote this morning.

Squirrels are evil.

Note worth saying twice. Or possibly even once.

I find this oddly amusing.

At Engine House No. 52 on Woodbrook Avenue in Northwest Baltimore, volunteers had plugged all of the voting machines into a power strip, but when they added a clock to the line, it sparked a small fire. The flames were contained and the machines survived.

Voting news for Ohioites:

In most elections, ''State Issue 1'' is something highly significant and its outcome closely watched. However, in Ohio today, Issue 1 doesn't count, literally.

It's prominently posted on the voting machines that the votes don't count.

Whheeee! Fire drill in my building. VERY LOUD.

I voted, and I have a sticker!

My polling place is weird. First, it's not in the lobby of my building, the way it was in LA. (What is up with that?) Also, there has been a big to do about the new electronic voting machines, and how they would give you paper ballots if they really truly had to, but they would rather not.

My polling place had one machine and 8 paper ballot tables.

I haven't voted, but will do so tonight.

Weren't they the ones who twigged immediately that someone was using ChiKat's cards fraudulently? Or was that Nordies?

Nordies. Neiman's actually tried to open an account for her, but saw that I already had one (thank dogs for old, unused accounts!).