Election Problems Reported

Sporadic problems were reported Tuesday at polling places around the country. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Republican Party said 75 legally credentialed voting inspectors were blocked from polling places, prompting the party to obtain a court order to allow them access. In central Pennsylvania, officials said the voting machine that switched a person's vote from Obama to Romney had to be recalibrated and put back in service. Also in Philadelphia, a judge ordered a mural of President Barack Obama covered up after a Republican election worker snapped a picture of it at a school polling place. In Pinellas County, Florida, about 12,000 voters were mistakenly told in robocalls that they could vote on Wednesday. In Franklin County, Ohio, where Columbus is located, officials barred the tea-part linked True the Vote group from monitoring polling places because applications to do so weren't filed properly. The Election Protection coalition reported problems with ballot scanners in the Ohio cities of Cleveland, Dayton and Toledo.