World Blog by humble servant.US media are heavily discussing an interview, given by Trump last night, in which he expressed regret over his "tone".
Midterm elections - live updates: Homeland Security forced to respond to reports that voting machine failures are stopping people casting ballots in key states.At least a dozen states are having problems that are stopping people casting their ballots, according to US rights activists. People are still running into widespread issues with registration problems, fault equipment and issues like intimidation during early voting.US media are heavily discussing an interview, given by Trump last night, in which he expressed regret over his "tone". He said he wishes he had been "softer" – a strange concession from someone who very rarely admits that there is anything wrong.Reports of broken ballot scanners are leading to long lines at several polling sites across New York City.
Turnout was so heavy Tuesday morning at one packed precinct on Manhattan's Upper West Side that the line to scan ballots stretched around a junior high school gym.
Poll workers told voters that two of the roughly half-dozen scanners were malfunctioning.
In Brooklyn, voters arriving at two separate polling stations discovered that most scanners had broken down.
Veronica Vela said half of the scanners were broken at one of the polling sites in Crown Heights and waited two hours to vote. By that time, none of the machines were working.
Vela said she was forced to drop her ballot in an "emergency ballot box."Voters in an Atlanta neighborhood arrived at a library that's been their polling site for years to find a car with two signs on its windshield that said in indelible markers, "NOT A VOTING LOCATION."
Jessica Olson says she's lived in the midtown neighborhood near the library polling place where she's voted for nearly 10 years. Suddenly this year, she was told she isn't supposed to vote here — she's to go to a church nearly two miles away.
In this pedestrian neighborhood, many walk to the polls.
Fulton County said in a statement that the change was made in early 2018 because the library will close for renovations.
At the new polling site at the church, 26-year-old Mylandria Ponder says she's been waiting an hour and 20 minutes, and is now leaving.
Across Georgia, multiple polling stations were reporting long lines, with the wait as long as three hours in some sites.
Turnout was so heavy Tuesday morning at one packed precinct on Manhattan's Upper West Side that the line to scan ballots stretched around a junior high school gym.
Poll workers told voters that two of the roughly half-dozen scanners were malfunctioning.
In Brooklyn, voters arriving at two separate polling stations discovered that most scanners had broken down.
Veronica Vela said half of the scanners were broken at one of the polling sites in Crown Heights and waited two hours to vote. By that time, none of the machines were working.
Vela said she was forced to drop her ballot in an "emergency ballot box."Voters in an Atlanta neighborhood arrived at a library that's been their polling site for years to find a car with two signs on its windshield that said in indelible markers, "NOT A VOTING LOCATION."
Jessica Olson says she's lived in the midtown neighborhood near the library polling place where she's voted for nearly 10 years. Suddenly this year, she was told she isn't supposed to vote here — she's to go to a church nearly two miles away.
In this pedestrian neighborhood, many walk to the polls.
Fulton County said in a statement that the change was made in early 2018 because the library will close for renovations.
At the new polling site at the church, 26-year-old Mylandria Ponder says she's been waiting an hour and 20 minutes, and is now leaving.
Across Georgia, multiple polling stations were reporting long lines, with the wait as long as three hours in some sites.
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