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December 3, 2008

6:45 p.m.: The Balm Civic Center had about 15 cars in the lot before polls closed. Precinct clerk John Bailiff, a 10-year veteran of the election office, says it's been much busier than normal. ...more

November 4, 2008

Betty Owen is 92 and after a stroke four years ago, needs a feeding tube and can't walk. But she was determined not to miss Tuesday's election. She arrived at her polling place on a gurney in an ambulance, where an election judge and support worker climbed aboard with an electronic voting machine and let her cast her ballot. ...more

November 4, 2008

5:10 p.m.: Deborah Cabrera of Palm River got up Tuesday morning, excited to vote. ...more

November 4, 2008

3:49 p.m.: In Pinellas County, six optical scanning machines had to be replaced by noon today, while 439 absentee ballots have had to be discounted thus far because of signature irregularities on the part of the voters, according to a spokeswoman with the Supervisor of Elections Office. ...more

November 4, 2008

12:29 p.m.: Merry Brocket of FishHawk took a vacation day from her job with a local talk-radio station to volunteer at the Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections Office. ...more

November 4, 2008

11:45 p.m.: Denise LaMorder says when she went to vote this morning at the library on St. Pete Drive in Oldsmar, she experienced an unwanted sense of deja vote. ...more

November 4, 2008

11:19 a.m.: Although it's a nice enough day to stand in long lines, there is a way to avoid them. ...more

November 4, 2008

11:10 a.m.: Michael Baccich, 57, of Tampa said he was told he'd already requested and returned an absentee ballot when he went to vote this morning. He said he hadn't even requested one. ...more

November 4, 2008

For some county residents who have cast their voters, it's all over, and they will be glad to see the campaign season coming to a close. ...more

November 4, 2008