At 6am most of the polls in our Bloomington district opened. But not without problems. The only two machines at one polling station were broken pretty much upon opening. Another site has two people checking in voters so slowly only two booths of five are ever full at one time. Some sheriffs won’t let Obama poll workers into the building and others are overestimating wait times by as much as 20 minutes, a tactic that scares voters away in this mostly blue district.

Over the course of the morning the central offices have been fixing these problems one by one. As of right now, it looks like things are finally running smoothly.