Not to have too much levity about electoral irregularities, but this is just funny:
In some areas of Indiana and Ohio, computer problems meant polling stations did not open on time, with voters being turned away, or given paper ballots. In Colorado, voters queued for hours because of technical glitches and in Oklahoma, a squirrel chewed through an electric cable, cutting off power to electronic voting machines in several polling stations.
"It's an unmitigated disaster," said Warren Stewart, the political director of VoteTrustUSA, a watchdog deeply sceptical of electronic voting.
Was it an exclusively Republican district? Maybe they were Democratic attack squirrels.
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