"A federal judge in Ohio granted a request late Tuesday from Senator Barack Obama’s campaign to extend the voting hours in 21 precincts in Cleveland by an extra 90 minutes because of a lack of paper ballots."
First time in history we have a black male Senator, Obama, and a white female Senator, Clinton, running for a position on the Presidential ballad and what do you know? Well, Ohio did not have enough ballads for their primary run. Paper ballads were offered to anyone who wanted to use them because of the concern about the fairness of computer voting systems. Apparently the amount of voters were not taken into thought and because of the overwhelming amount of voters there wasn't enough paper ballads. Officials were not expecting a huge turn out... the only thing I can say to that is ... Did we have this same situation the last several runs of Presidential Primaries? Is this something that happends often? Both those answers are no. End result... new situation, new possibilities... it would only make sense to have extras so that planning for the unexpected would be taken into consideration and you wouldn't have to extend voting hours. I think it was deliberate so that there could be extra voting times. But, that is only my opinion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/us/politics/05vote.html?_r=1&ref=politics
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