MAJOR WTF...Moments...Glitches, machine breakdowns hamper voting in at least 5 states

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Long lines, voting machine failures and registration glitches hampered balloting Tuesday in precincts in Pennsylvania , Virginia , Michigan , New Jersey and Florida , as Americans flocked to the polls to elect a new president.Nearly 31 million people eased congestion in many states, but machine malfunctions forced the temporary closures of some polling stations in Virginia , which is considered a presidential battleground state after decades in which Democratic candidates all but conceded the state.

``We're having statewide problems in Virginia and Pennsylvania , mostly having to do with machine breakdowns that are resulting in people in some cases not getting to vote and people being given the wrong types of ballots,'' said Jon Greenbaum , the director of the Voting Rights Project for the Lawyers' Committee.

For example, the coalition said that poll workers used machine malfunctions as grounds for issuing provisional ballots to some voters, which can require those citizens to return within a few days with additional documentation to ensure that their ballots count.

``A lot of the communities being affected are predominantly minority,'' Greenbaum said.

In Pennsylvania , another key state, the coalition reported malfunctions of electronic, touch-screen voting machines in at least a dozen locations, mainly in the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia areas. Paper jams on the optical scanners that record paper ballots also slowed voting.

Adding to the Election Day friction, voters across the state complained that they'd requested absentee ballots but never received them.

In Michigan , where voting machine problems were publicly disclosed Monday, some people were being asked to vote on paper with felt-tip pens, and others grew discouraged and dropped out of long lines, the Election Protection coalition said.

Voting also got off to a bumpy start in Kansas City, Mo. , another battleground state, because the wrong poll books wound up at several precincts. Quickly arranged swaps remedied the situation.