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Despite extremely long lines and hours and hours of waiting, it seems as though the voting access problems plaguing the past two elections were not as pronounced last night. Perhaps that’s because the wide margin of Obama’s victory created a big enough buffer. Still, the mainstream media is saying that voting problems were isolated and negligible. In Ohio, where there is still a lawsuit over voting access in the 2004 election, provisional votes still need to be counted. A vast machinery, particularly among progressive organizations, had been created to observe and protect election integrity, particularly groups like the ACLU, VideotheVote.org. The two major concerns were voter roll purges, and voting machine failures or hacks.

GUESTS: Laughlin McDonald, Director of the ACLU Voting Rights Project, Bob Fitrakis, Political Science Professor at Columbus State Community College; Editor, Columbus Free Press; Co-Author, What Happened in Ohio? A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election.