Something to watch for. Researching an article on youth, politics and technology, I heard from Rock the Vote that they are about to launch a wireless poll in partnership with Zogby.

This morning I published a post on my weblog, Halley's Comment called "12 Reasons Women Should Vote For Kerry/Edwards" with the comments field open for replies.

A few weeks after Dean lost in New Hampshire, a guy posted research that "proved" that Dean lost disproportionately in districts that used electronic voting machines, even when you factored in economic disparities.

Now, I do not for an instant believe there was an electoral hankypanky in NH.

Snopes has the skinny on a voting-machine mishap in Texas. An early voter who attempted to vote a straight ticket discovered that her vote for Kerry/Edwards had been switched to a vote for Bush/Cheney.

The cause appears to be something relatively "innocent," in the sense that a user-interface feature related to scrolling led to the voter accidentally changing her first vote.

David Neiwert is setting up a blog clearinghouse at his site, Orcinus, to report incidents of violence, threats, or intimidation against Democratic campaign workers, supporters, and voters.

(He leaves it to "the other side" to track any reciprocal shenanigans.)

Thus far he is tracking incidents in a number of categories:

• Attacks on campaign headquarters
• Bush supporters intimidate/assault Kerry supporters/war protesters
• Police mistreat protesters
• Kerry supporters' homes/cars vandalized
• Threatening Kerry supporters' employment

Neiwert welcomes contributions from readers:

As always, I'm looking for reader contributions. I realize my criteria are fairly rigorous - there are, of course, various kinds of nastiness that don't really fit these descriptions.

What do I think the greatest impact technology will have on this election – and this Election Day in particular? I think technology, and the Internet in particular, will feed America’s need for speed. News sites will be posting flash polls. Bloggers from all perspectives will be hunting out evidence of voter fraud with a ‘gotcha’ mentality. At every turn, there will be a fight to be first. And that is not necessarily a good thing.

I spent Election Day 2000 (and several days after) in a hotel room in Nashville, Tennessee tracking exit polls and results. I was on Vice President Gore’s staff then, tasked with knowing everything that was going on around the nation. The Internet and other technologies (Instant Messenger, my blackberry, etc.) played a big role in my work that day. But we all know what happened in 2000. Looking back, I would have happily given up the advantage of being first if all the information I received from around the country was certain to be correct.

I imagine that the impact of technology on this election has largely already been factored in. Both of the parties have their strategies, their email lists. Blogs have done their part. It doesn't seem like there's too much left to do. Even the dirty tricks, such as this flyer designed to intimidate African-American voters looks like it's been xeroxed and faxed around since the '70s. I guess facsimile transition is a technology, but not a new one.

No, if there's a big "day of" impact on election day today, I think it will be in the form of eyewitness reports from voting places, reports about turnout, mood, problems, and smoothly running democracy.

We'll be watching and listening.

A very interesting site called TrueVote MD (Maryland) Campaign For Verifiable Voting documents not only what Maryland voters have gone through to keep the democratic process alive in their state as they put in touchscreen voting machines, but notice their red box on the right-hand column with Breaking News. There are pieces from The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Nation and The Baltimore Sun that give deep background on DRE "direct recording electronic" machines and the concerns with Diebold's paperless AccuVote-TS.

Linda Schade looks like the activist behind the scenes there. She's put together a site with lots of great links and background on the subject of DRE's.

Flickr is a photo sharing social medium application for the web that enables people to tag their photos with key words and then view or even subscribe to a feed of all photos that share a given tag.

For a fly-on-the-wall view of voting today around the country, check out the page for photos tagged with 'vote' at Flickr.

At the liberal Daily Kos and conservative Red State community weblogs, reports of questionable behavior at polls or in GOTV (get out the vote) efforts are flooding in today. Here's a brief survey gathered over the course of the last hour:

1. Federal Judge Finds Intimidation of Native Americans in South Dakota
2. Challenging the challengers
3. Boilerplate talking points in line
4. Republicans challenging every voter in two locations in Racine, WI
5. Ohio journalists sneaking into polls despite ban
6. Emily's List misdirecting voters to polls in SC
7. MoveOn volunteers encroaching on polling places
8. False Schwarzkopf call spliced onto McPeak robocall?
9. DNC denies it