New Jersey will accept faxed ballots, and e-mail ballots, through Friday, November 9. See this story. However, voters must have requested the ability to vote using those methods by November 6. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
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Politico, like many other news web pages, will post election returns. Politico expects to include every presidential candidate in its returns, if that candidate is on the ballot. Here is the link, although of course at this moment there are no election returns from any state, except for two tiny towns in New Hampshire. Thanks to Gregory Koch for this news.
According to this story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is registered “independent.” She is registered to vote in the District of Columbia. In recent decades, most U.S. Supreme Court Justices have been residents of northern Virginia, and Virginia does not have registration by party. But some justices have lived in Maryland, which does have registration by party. Thanks to HowAppealing for the link.
The Guam Election Commission has finished counting the November 6, 2012 presidential vote. Because Guam is on the early side of the International Date Line, voting finished there several hours ago. The results: Obama 23,067 (72.39%); Romney 8,443 (26.49%); Johnson 357 (1.12%).
In November 2008, the Guam presidential vote was: Obama 20,120 (62.35%); McCain 11,940 (37.00%); Bob Barr, Libertarian, 212 (.66%). Here is a picture of the 2012 Guam ballot. The presidential part of the ballot is on page two. Thanks to Walter Ziobro for the news, which is from the web page of a Guam television station, KUAM.
MSNBC and many other news sources have broadcast this You Tube, made by a Pennsylvania voter who intended to vote for President Obama. As his video shows, he repeatedly touched the Obama line on the touchscreen, but the machine always then lit up the Romney line. The voter, who says he is a programmer, then tested the machine by touching the Jill Stein line, which is directly below the Obama line. He thought that the machine might be making a generic mistake and always recording the vote for the line above the line that was touched. But, that theory wasn’t correct, because when he touched the Stein line, the machine lit up for Stein.
None of the news stories seem to indicate the name of the county in Pennsylvania. But news reports say the machine was then taken out of circulation. There have been similar complaints in other states by Republicans who say they experienced the same problem, that their attempt to vote for Romney registered a vote for Obama.