Election Watch 2008

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 at 8:37 pm - by Matt Campbell. Filed under: Politics.

12:00am - Barack Obama gives his acceptance speech

11:19pm - John McCain makes his concession speech

AP totals @ 12:50am

Pennsylvania with 98% precincts reporting

Barack Obama 55%

John McCain 44%

Ralph Nader 1%

AP totals @ 10pm

Pennsylvania with 45% of precincts reporting

Barack Obama 62%

John McCain 37%

Ralph Nader 1%

New Jersey with 59% of precincts reporting

Barack Obama 56%

John McCain 43%

Delaware with 2% precincts reporting

Barack Obama 51%

John McCain 48%

Ralph Nader 1%

Updated: 8:48pm

If Obama wins, Outgoing Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner would likely appoint U.S. Senator Joe Biden’s replacement. Potential contenders include Lt. Gov. John Carney and the senator’s son, Attorney General Beau Biden.

Updated: 8:40pm

CNN projects Barack Obama to win PA with 0% of the votes counted.

Updated: 8:15pm

Common Cause PA issued another summary of voting problems reported today.The biggest problem found was “a breakdown between state voter registration lists and the lists that have been printed out for the polling places. This issue is widespread and as caused an unknown number of voters to vote provisionally.” Thanks to AboveAverageJane for spotting this.

Updated: 4:03pm

Philadelphia election watchdog group The Committee of 70 released a report this afternoon detailing some of the problems that have occurred around the region. Over all the organization says things are going well. One of the most serious incidents is ousting of republican polling officials. The report says “We continue to look into several incidents, including minority polling officials being ousted by Democratic Judges of Elections in Philadelphia.” The incident caught the attention of The Drudge Report where the headline links to the conservative website townhall.com. The Associated Press reports that GOP observers have been allowed back in.

Statewide Common Cause PA says there are scattered voter problems being reported, most from the Philadelphia region. In their latest update, the biggest problem concerns what are known as emergency ballots.

“Perhaps the biggest news maybe that Philadelphia Election Authorities may not count emergency ballots cast by voters because of broken machines until Friday. John Bonifaz of Voter Action is challenging the decision but if the vote is close tonight it might be that we won’t have the results in Pennsylvania until Friday. Under the law, these ballots are to be treated the same as regular ballots.”

Updated: 2:11pm