Did your vote count on Super Tuesday?

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A long line of voters in Arizona.

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Did your vote count on Super Tuesday?

As with every election, there were voting glitches on Super Tuesday -- reports of "invisible ink" in Illinois, problems for independents in California and more. And that doesn't even include the complications of caucuses. Such problems get more scrutiny than ever since the "hanging chad" election of 2000, yet authorities still can't produce an error-free election.

Should voters be concerned? Are new machines and requirements helping? Or will glitches always be with us?

Ben likes: Yet another election with confusion and anger over ballots

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A colleague in Savannah says she hasn't seen anybody have a problem producing an ID to cast a ballot. I haven't yet seen any reports out of Georgia of a problem. If that bears out, it will certainly bolster those who support voter ID, because they'll be able to say that it doesn't have any impact on turnout. The flip side is that, potentially, the people who didn't have ID simply didn't bother to go to vote. So it won't settle the argument, but at least this will give us a little more data. There isn't a lot of data. Both sides in the photo ID debate have spent more time knocking down each other's arguments than advancing their own.

Joel likes: Jersey's voting woes

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Apparently, there were problems statewide with voters gaining access to the polls, according to the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU-NJ), which reported that Hudson County, of which Jersey City is the county seat, was a special case. Even Gov. Jon Corzine was unable to vote at his Hudson County polling place in Hoboken because of problems with the voting machines, according to ACLU-NJ Executive Director Deborah Jacobs, and was not offered a provisional ballot, as required by the state's election law. Instead, Jacobs wrote in a press release, Corzine was sent to another polling place. "When both advocates and members of the press called the Hudson County Superintendent of Elections to ask about Gov. Corzine's experience," according to the press release, "staff members hung up on them."