Josh: November 2006 Archives

And numbers are starting to roll in.

In one of the most contentious Senate races, between Allen-Webb race in Virginia, Allen, the Republican, has the slimmest of leads, 49.47% to 41.67%. Of course, this is with less than five percent of precincts reporting, so it means absolutely nothing.

But stay tuned to dailynews.com, and we'll keep you up-to-date on the latest...

UPDATE: You see what a difference five minutes makes? Webb has surged ahead, 52 percent to 47 percent, with 7.6 percent of precincts reporting...

At 3 p.m. - with the polls open for another five hours - more than a quarter of LA's registered voters had already cast their vote. 26.84 percent, to be exact. That's up from 23.72 in the 2002 mid-term elections.

UPDATED 4 p.m.: 29.8 percent of voters have filled out their ballots (yes, that includes me). That's up from 2002 but down from 1998. What does any of this mean? Your guess is as good as mine...

Our good friends at the Associated Press have passed on stories of inproprieties and problems all over the country:
- In Virginia, the FBI is investigating complaints from voters that they received phone calls discouraging them from voting or directing them to the wrong polling place.
- Glitches delayed balloting in dozens of Indiana and Ohio precincts, and Illinois officials were swamped with calls from voters complaining that poll workers did not know how to operate new electronic equipment. Voting machine malfunctions forced officials in Indiana to delay calling statewide races until 8:40 p.m. EST while in Pennsylvania, Lebanon County extended polling hours because of machine problems.
- In Daggett County, Utah, there are four more registered voters than the county's population in the 2005 census.
From the AP:

Democrats suspect County Clerk Vickie McKee is letting outsiders swell the Daggett County registration rolls to give Republicans an advantage. They say the father of the deputy running against Democratic Sheriff Allen Campbell has 14 adults registered at his household.

Here in Los Angeles, we've received reports of minor problems - a few precincts opening a little late - but nothing major.

According to wire reports, nearly 21 percent of registered voters had cast their vote by 1 p.m. That's up from 18.44 percent in 2002, the last mid-term election.

According to CNN, exit polls show that the Iraq War isn't the biggest issue on voter's minds - corruption, terrorism and the economy all were bigger issues than Iraq, according to exit polls.

What does this mean? Well find out soon enough. Polls close within the next few hours on the East Coast. We've got nearly six hours left to vote here in California.

More from CNN's exit poll:
62% of voters said national issues outweighed local issues