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Rainy Weather Causes Voting Havoc for Virginia

by Amy Judd | November 4, 2008 at 08:41 am

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The US Election Day 2008 is only a few hours old, but another voting issue has arisen in the state of Virginia - the rain.

Two incidents in Virginia have already been reported, but voting issues are going on in New Jersey, Virginia, and North Carolina.

One was in Fairfax and the other was in Richmond. Now, Chesapeake can be added as one of the locations in Virginia. So far, the voters in Chesapeake are going through the same ordeal as those in Raleigh, North Carolina.

In NC, it was reported that ballots got soggy due to the rainy weather. Because of that, the soggy balances would not read out on the machines.

In Chesapeake, the weather is also wet. As a result, the voters and poll workers are faced with the problems of soggy ballots. According to Ryan Enright, spokesman of the Virginia State Board of Elections, the rain is causing problems.