Indiana, mid-morning: high turnout, sleepy poll workers

INDIANAPOLIS -- No number of free Stevie Wonder concerts (here's low-quality but entertaining YouTube footage) or two-timing campaign performances by John Cougar Mellencamp count for anything if your polling station's not open when you show up on primary day. One of the technological developments Indiana authorities are touting this year is the introduction of automatic 5am wake-up calls for poll workers. But there were a few heavy sleepers, according to Election Journal, which is monitoring polling problems in Indiana and North Carolina in real time. Four-and-a-half hours after polls opened, there are scattered reports of machine failures and polling-stations without ballots. But the dominant picture here is of already huge turnout (their numbers swelled by Rush Limbaugh's open-primary-gaming Operation Chaos?) Meanwhile, the Indianapolis Star carries reports (apparently not online) of voters here receiving automated calls -- which are illegal in Indiana -- purporting to come from the National Right To Life political action committee, urging a vote against Obama on the grounds that he plans to legalise 'partial-birth abortion' and 'abortion on demand'. A curious tactic, since Right To Life PAC seems to hate Clinton and Obama equally, though perhaps it's just a question of anything that helps prolong the Democrats' self-destructive battles.