1:16 p.m.: From jammed optical scanners to long lines at a University of South Florida polling place, the first hours of voting have produced a mishmash of reported problems statewide, voting rights advocates say. ...more

November 4, 2008

12:59: A handful of candidate representatives at Hillsborough County polling places complained that voters were confused after showing up at the wrong polling place. ...more

November 4, 2008

11: 25 a.m.: Marlise Tolbert-Jones usually likes to stay out of the limelight, but she is front and center among a crowd of Barack Obama supporters outside the polling place at Progress Village Park. ...more

November 4, 2008

11:25 a.m.: It doesn't pay to be an "S" at precinct 359 in Tampa Palms. As I stand in line waiting for my turn to vote, I watch people whose last names begin with M, H and J dash past me. ...more

November 4, 2008

10:37 a.m.: Clerks in at least three Hillsborough County voting precincts have failed to hand out the second page of ballots, leaving voters unable to vote on all the measures, Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson said. ...more

November 4, 2008

9:58 a.m.: Poll workers and voters at Flora Street and Florida Avenue in Tampa are puzzled by the black helicopter hovering about 50 yards overhead. ...more

November 4, 2008

9:35 a.m.: My wife and I left the house fearing long lines at our polling place. When we arrived at the All Saints Church on Curlew in Palm Harbor, there were few cars in the parkng lot and inside, there was no wait at all. ...more

November 4, 2008

8:45 a.m.: The line is moving right along, and voters at the Jackson Heights NFL Youth Education Town Center in College Hill are streaming in and out. There are fewer voters this morning than Charlotte Cornelius thought. ...more

November 4, 2008

8:40 a.m.: Would-be voter Robert Clemente says he is not impressed by assurances that there will not be any problems at the Precinct 43 polling location in Holiday. "I arrived at 7:50 a.m. and about 15 people were standing outside on the sidewalk," says Clemente. "Someone came up to me and said the polling place is closed, you can't vote now. I asked why. He said that they got the wrong component for the machine. I asked when I could vote. He said come back in about 20 minutes." ...more

November 4, 2008

8:10 a.m.: Rhonda Burel seemed determined to be part of a news story today, and not in a good way. She stood in the right-turn lane off bustling Bearss Avenue in front of the Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library in Tampa holding a McCain/Palin sign she had yanked from the ground outside the polling place. ...more

November 4, 2008