I was disappointed but not exactly surprised not to find recommendations from any liberal group. Sad state of affairs when we don't even get in on fight in important areas such as the courts.

Here he is on what's happening in Pennsylvania:

And this hour's episode of The Land of 1000 Finagles comes to us from western Pennsylvania, where Republican operatives apparently were asking people for photo ID outside the polls, despite the fact that the state law does not require it -- until a judge dropped a writ of knock-that-sh!t-off on their asses.

An Allegheny County judge issued an order to halt electioneering outside a polling location in Homestead. County officials received a complaint shortly before 10 a.m. Tuesday that Republicans outside a polling location on Maple Street in Homestead were stopping people outside the polls and asking for identification. The order states: "Individuals outside the polls are prohibited from questioning, obstructing, interrogating or asking about any form of identification and/demanding any form of identification from any prospective voter."

Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Guido A. DeAngelis, one of two judges overseeing Elections Court, issued the order and said such actions by partisans "could have a chilling effect" on voting.

And here's a little snippet from a much longer report from Charlie's daughter, who is voting in her first election today in Northern Virginia, and encountered an extremely long line:

Welcome to America, where we forget how many people lost their lives for our right to vote and are happier to stand in line to get a discount on a TV on Black Friday than we are to patiently wait patiently to vote.

Here's a link to a NYT story on what's happening, and a snip from the article:

Though the region hit by Hurricane Sandy is not expected to be in play in the presidential election, the combination of the storm and heavy morning turnout yielded long lines, confusion, frustration and anger. At several polling sites in New York City the vote scanning machines being used for the first time in a presidential election malfunctioned, forcing workers to resort to paper ballots and slowing the process even more.

[snip]

Across the storm-damaged region on Monday, bleary-eyed, disheveled residents drove long distances and waited in long lines at government offices to cast early ballots, and many said voting felt like an important step back toward normalcy.

On Tuesday, the line to vote at an East Village polling station extended half a block down First Avenue and rapidly built westward on Ninth Street. By 8:40 a.m. at least 175 people were patiently reading papers, manipulating smartphones and drinking coffee, advancing not even a foot a minute.

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In Forest Hills, Queens, Ann Dichter, 63, said she had never seen as busy a polling place in her 10-plus years there as she did Tuesday. Asked what was on her mind this day, she began a tirade against one of the presidential candidates, then stopped and summed up her mind-set thusly: "Women's rights."

Reading the entire article, you can just imagine the kind of day a lot of people have been having in the affected areas, but kudos to those willing to take the time and make the effort to vote today, even after all they've been through.  

After president and senator, she was lost, on a fairly long ballot that had ten or so ballot propositions, some substantively complex.

She also was under the impression that she needed to vote on every possible matter or office in order for her ballot to count.

So, anecdotally speaking, I'd say we're looking at a pretty heavy turnout in Honolulu. Since the presidential and U.S. Senate races are pretty well decided at this point, I'd offer that the runoff election for Honolulu mayor is what's driving people to the polls today, because what's really on the ballot is the fate of our city's multi-billion dollar rail project as it's presently proposed.

Far and away, this current mayor's race has been the ugliest political contest I've ever been involved in. What's made it particularly acrimonious is the fact that because all City & County races are non-partisan, both runoff candidates -- former Mayor Kirk Caldwell and former Gov. Ben Cayetano -- are Democrats. Peter Carlisle, the incumbent Republican mayor, finished a distant third in August's election and is out of the running.

I kid you not, but if Gov. Cayetano is elected, he will become our city's fourth mayor in the last three years. Our proposed elevated heavy rail system has become an extraordinarily controversial topic of political conversation out here, in large part because of the project's eye-popping $5.7B to $9.1B price tag, depending upon how much of the proposed original rail line is actually built.

(Keep in mind that the resident population of the City & County of Honolulu -- the entire island of Oahu -- is 953,000 persons, which renders that hefty cost problematic. We simply don't have the size and diversity of tax base on Oahu that's necessary to absorb that sort of fiscal hit without a very substantial increase in City & County property taxes.)

Needless to say, thanks to rail the current political atmosphere has proved hypercharged and highly toxic, and voters have exacted a serious toll on those city officials who've actively worked to vest this rather dubious public works project -- sometimes, as both state and federal courts recently ruled, by deceiving both the City Council and the general public regarding its true cost and ultimate impact on the environment and local traffic.

It's certainly a far cry from the days of Mayor Frank Fasi, who governed the City & County of Honolulu by consensus for over a quarter-century (1968-1994) -- and did so more than competently, IMHO, especially when compared with what we've endured the past eight years.

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