State election coverage

I imagine there will be a few posts about the elections on Political State Report. If you are not familiar with PolState, it's a blog with contributors from most states in the union, so whenever they decide to post it gets published to the site for all to see. Given their nature, I imagine it will be a great place to see what happened in today's off-year elections, since normal people who live in those states will be posting coverage.

In fact, there's already a report from Texas, quoting from the Houston Chronicle, which will hopefully hammer another nail into the coffin of electronic voting:

David Puckett said he sat down on the floor and spent 25 minutes scribbling down his choices while other voters just took the time to write in their votes on the top races before dropping their homemade ballots into a pasteboard box. He said an election judge told him to write on the back of the paper if he ran out of room and then told him he might need to vote again this afternoon if the eSlate machines come back up. Then, Puckett said, the judges decided a second vote wasn't such a good idea.

"They're making up rules as they go," he said. "It's unbelievable."

Sheesh. Sounds like it's only a matter of time before we need international election monitors...