A Whole Features: Beyond the Blog

Ooooh. Hmm. The church website as weblog connects people with people. Oooooh.

The Kids Are All Right

In central Ohio, voters primarily from Kenyon College in Knox County waited for more than eight hours at a polling place that had not prepared for an onslaught of newly registered voters.

"We didn't have enough machines, and we didn't strategize well enough," said Thomas F. McHugh, chairman of the Knox County Board of Elections. "We got caught up in a real bind."

Nick Papa, 18, a freshman at Kenyon, said he got in line at 4:30 and was told it might be six or seven hours, but he was still in line at 1:30 a.m. At one point, election officials offered paper ballots, but the students rebelled, saying they wanted to use the electronic machines "to make sure our votes count," Papa said.

I notice a number of comments in these stories that are the same - there are far more newly registrated voters than there are voting machines in place to accomodate them. Why?