We're hearing of a huge 80% turnout in the elections, and reader Cindy Closkey sends us her tale from "the western part of Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh."
She found the voting process - done with those notorious mechanical punch machines - swift and problem-free, with no queue worth talking about (the long waits to vote are something quite alien to us in the UK - voting here is normally very quick indeed, and always done with paper ballots).
But according to this link she sends, there have been <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04307/405482.stm"
">problems elsewhere, mostly - it seems - to do with the enormous turnout of new voters.
That huge turnout is also likely delaying results - tales of Ohio's now-legendary lines are still flooding in.
Meanwhile - Azeem reports that the TradeSports markets are swinging back in favour of Bush. For the uninitiated, the markets are essentially groups of gamblers who bet against each other. The odds on offer are an indicator - often highly accurate - of who is likely to win. After all, it's just people putting their money where their vote is.
On this subject, Wonkette/Gawker supremo Nick Denton's blog is worth keeping an eye on too - although he's now calling the election for Kerry, despite the markets.
