Voters were lined up by the hundreds Tuesday as polls opened in Virginia, and reports quickly began to mount of malfunctioning voting machines and polling places opening late.
The State Board of Elections said at a briefing there were no "widespread problems" and blamed human error and the rain for those problems that were reported.
...In several suburban Richmond counties, voters and elections officials reported paper jams on some machines and balky touch-screen machines in some localities had local registrars turning to paper ballots.
At one precinct in Richmond's north end, hundreds of people encircled a branch library by 6 a.m., the scheduled opening of the polls. But the line grew for another 25 minutes before the poll workers opened the doors. They said the librarian who had a key to the polling place had overslept.
...In Chesapeake, approximately 1,000 voters stood in line to vote, and some people reported malfunctioning machines.
At George Mason University in Fairfax, Provost Peter N. Stevens wrote in a campus e-mail that a hacker had entered a message into the university system stating the Election Day had been rescheduled.
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