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Via NBC

Ballot-box 'Survivor': Some voters have been standing in line for more than nine hours at a polling place in Gambier, Ohio, in Knox County, NBC News reports. In Ohio's Franklin County, the wait reportedly is running into three or four hours.

Such marathon waits, reminiscent of the "stand-on-a-log" endurance test from the "Survivor" reality-TV show, have arisen because of a dearth of voting machines to handle overwhelming turnout. It's this situation that led federal judges to authorize an extension of polling hours and the extraordinary use of supplemental paper ballots, NBC reported.

This could hold up the vote tally and extend the uncertainty surrounding Ohio's crucial and too-close-to-call presidential results.

Um, in a functioning Democracy, why should anyone have to wait 9 hours to vote?

And a shortage of voting machines... Looks like when we were focusing on high-tech issues like lack of auditability, the Republicans at Diebold and in the Ohio Attorney General's office engineered good low, low tech capacity problem.