No problem at my polling place. The poll worker there, noticing that I was listed as "nonpartisan" in the registration roll, actually asked me if I wanted to vote for the Democratic nomination. (You're still given a "nonpartisan" ballot but you then vote in one of the booths labeled "Democrat").

I showed up to vote this morning only to find that my husband and I had both been dropped from the voting rolls. In addition, I submitted a duly executed request an absentee ballot for my hospitalized father well in advance of the deadline, and my request was simply ignored.

No problems and no line in Valley Village,

However, there was a bit of a line at the IN-N-OUT on Vine and Orange.

I had a similar experience as the above -- took my nonpartisan ballot into a Democratic booth.

HOWEVER, I had no idea that there was a bubble to fill in indicating whether or not you were voting for one of the 7 Dems or the one American Independent party candidate.

Only now are officials making a statement on what should have already been heavily stressed on the airwaves and at the polls.

Oh well. My vote might not count this round, but they better figure it out by November 4!

Poll workers not knowing about important details of the process? Machinery not being auditable? It is past high time for America to replace its creaking voting system with something better -- not only the physical machinery but the entire system. No need to go far for an example: go see how Elections Canada does it.

My state has 9 million people and we NEVER have these problems.

Funny that the Clinton campaign comment stated "False reports about voting problems in LA are being drudged up"... Slight irony or just the wrong word?

I voted this morning in Valley Glen (neighborhood in Van Nuys) and had no problem whatsoever. I did overhear an independent voter and a staffer trying to puzzle through that guy's situation.

As for In-N-Out, I drove by there too. No line. Of course, it was 9 AM...

There was no machine at my poll in San Francisco (Duboce, near Sanchez). They didn't even check our names off the list. Everyone there had to fill out a provisional ballot. There was much grumbling..."I hope your going to count these votes...!" Lots of cranky people at 7 AM. Very annoying. This is the first time I've seen this in my neighborhood and I've live there for 3 years and voted in all elections.

I'm in southwest LA and found that my name wasn't listed on the roster this morning. I just voted this past November with no problems and nothing has changed. I got my official Sample Ballot with location as usual so I'm probably still registered. Ended up voting on a provisional ballot. I'm not confident it'll be counted. The same thing happened to the guys in front of and behind me. Coincidence? It's a mixed race area with lots of UCLA students who, I'm guessing, are likely to lean toward Obama. Btw, it was ink-a-vote, not machines.

Voters and one pollworker reported that an adjacent location had not opened as of about 8:10. There was general confusion at my polling place (Laurel Canyon and Moorpark St.), but everyone was patient and good humored. Location uses paper ballots.

in my Democrat-heavy neighborhood, they not only filled a Democrat card for me (but later corrected it), but once I got into the booth none of the Republican levers would turn. I finally had to cast a Florida style paper ballot. Apparently, I was the second Republican in all day and the first to use that machine. All of the Democrat's levers worked perfectly fine for the entire day.

The best part of all was when they kept yelling across the room: "the Republican lever won't work" "Huh? We have a Republican?" "Yeah, she's right here, and the Republican can't vote!" "Seriously? A Republican?"

The head of King County elections in 2004 was Dean Logan. He was slammed by a judge in the aftermath for incompetence and errors. He fled to Los Angeles, where he was recently appointed as acting head of LA County elections.

Those of us in Eastern WA not only are not surprised that LA County is having problems, we *expected* it it. We *predicted* it.

Jeez, dude, gullible much? Since when is Drudge a reliable reporter of anything?

I'm in L.A., and there was no problem at all where I went. Smooth lines, everything working fine.

Methinks you've been had, man. Next time, check with somebody not known for Fox-style scare-mongering, OK?

We have all paper ballots, with a touchscreen available if the voter is disabled or otherwise can't use a paper ballot.

We had a number of "decline to state" voters wanting to vote on Republican ballots, who were rather irritated with us when we said that this wasn't allowed. However, I was scrupulous in my explanations that "decline to state" voters could vote on a nonpartisan, Democratic or American Independent ballot.

A few voters were mildly disgruntled they didn't get to use the touchscreen. I kept my opinions of touchscreens to myself - but apparently the Registrar of Voters had a record number of complaints by people disappointed that they couldn't vote on a touchscreen.

Our principal difficulties were language barrier ones, though. We had very few problems with the ballots.

Well, Drudge did break the Lewinsky scandal.

That was pretty funny. Get a Mac! As if there were any software to run on one.

I tried to vote Democratic as a decline to state voter,as is my right. I was never told that there were special procedures for this, either before election day or at my polling place. I was first directed to a voting machine which only accessed parties other than Dems or Republicans. I explained to poll workers I could vote Democratic as a decline to state. They told me to use a machine that listed Democratic candidates. I did so, following the rules posted on the machine. There were no instructions for decline to state voters posted. The next morning I read an LA Times article saying these votes would not count because they were incorrectly marked. People were reporting statewide that poll workers did not know what to do with decline to state voters. The Secretary of State was quoted as saying she was not worried because we had supposedly been told how to vote before election day, even if poll workers were not informed. A) That is not true. B) Even if it was, why not tell your poll workers the rules and post them in voting booths?