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Mike Hatch leading Gov. Tim Pawlenty leading 50 to 42.
Polls received at the same time in the race for U.S. Senate show
Amy Klobuchar leading U.S. Rep. Mark Kennedy 62 to 35.
Did I mention I’m at MPR Policy & a Pint? I kinda feel like a zoo animal….bloggers blogging….do not tap glass. It’s wierd, there is a live audience watching us blog and watching an MPR webcast…and drinking beer.
CNN projects a first pickup for Democats with Brad Ellsworth winning Indiana’s 8th Congressional district.
Let the deluge begin…
I’m honestly thinking if Dems take Arizona, we take the Senate…
Anyone agree with me? [or not?]
AP’s exit numbers are also finding a surprisingly high number of evangelicals going Dem
Not surprising. Not surprising at all…...
MNCR thinks he beat me to this post. It’s quality, not speed my friend.
At St. Thomas College, North Campus [St. Mark’s] polling place - the list of pre-registered student voters has letters and words inserted in the name fields, holding up polls and occupying polling place officials who are trying to sort the mess out.
Meanwhile, at Macalester [ward 3, precinct 7] a Republican poll challenger is contesting every same-day student registration. I’m told one young woman was almost in tears, convinced she had done something wrong in trying to register…sad. Also, a hall director tried to register with another hall director to vouch, as on-campus folks have no utility bills and whatnot. The Republican challenger asked her for the room number, address, etc… of her friend - far and away beyond the accepted standard for vouchers.
Poll challengers are demanding election judges get additional information from certain voters to prove citizenship.
I believe in ‘trust but verify’, but historically these folks are mostly there to suppress the vote with interference.
If you see Poll Challengers trying to supress the vote, drop a dime on ‘em to the DFL Voter Protection Team - 651.251.6384.
I have this from a highly placed source familiar with the DFL Pollfinder application…
About two weeks ago, a vulnerability was discovered in Mongrel that allows an attacker to submit a simple HTTP request with malformed MIME body that causes the application to fall into an infinite loop - crippling the application and
Mongrel, which is a web server one can use to run applications written in ruby running on the rails framework.
Guess what was discovered this morning, 30 minutes before polls opened in Minnesota on the sever running DFL pollfinder?
You don’t need to be a Linux geek to know that any technology term with the word ‘panic’ in it is bad. My source said that it is almost assured that this was not a coincidence, that
More on this as information comes in -
More on this as information comes in…
Saxton also reported waiting 25 minutes in Longfellow…
Obviously, these are anecdotal anecdotes.. I’m going to go vote in Audubon in a bit…
Hey - if you noticed turnout seemed either especially low or high, please let us know!
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