Joao Soares (pic below), head of the OSCE's observation mission to the United States for the 2012 presidential election, tells RFE/RL: "In the OSCE, as you know, some countries east of Vienna say that we have double standards, and we don't have double standards. [This visit] is proof that we don't have double standards: We observe in the same way in Western countries and in Eastern European countries, especially those which came [out of] the former Soviet Union, in Central Asia and the Caucasus, [and] also in the Balkans."
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We're putting together some funny, weird election day tweets. Seen any good ones? rferl.org/content/funnie…
In New York—from which most of my friends' [eds: the author of the Gizmodo piece] photos have been posted—the § 17-130 law is unequivocal. "Any person who...makes or keeps any memorandum of anything occurring within the booth, or directly or indirectly, reveals to another the name of any candidate voted for by such voter; or shows his ballot after it is prepared for voting, to any person so as to reveal the contents...is guilty of a misdemeanor." Ditto Florida, and the overwhelming majority of municipalities.
U.S. -- People vote during the U.S. presidential election at a displaced polling center in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York, 06Nov2012
Via CNN -- exit polls in Florida show state electorate is 67 percent white, 13 percent black, 16 percent latino. In 2008 whites were 71 percent, blacks 13 percent, and latinos 14 percent -- and Obama won the state.
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CNN has called Vermont for President Obama
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Exit polling shows Virginia as a 49%-49% tie -- the polls close momentarily.
