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Chaos at the Polls

Election Day Madness

From New York to Florida to Ohio, polling places were rife with broken machines, erroneous voter rolls, and misinformed poll workers. Eliza Shapiro reports.

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Election Day 2012 may be remembered for a long night of vote tallying, a serious upset, or a victory speech for the history books.

But that all comes later.

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Twitter and Facebook overflowed Tuesday, not with messages of support for Barack Obama or Mitt Romney but with dispatches about the widespread insanity...

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