Felton is contibuting to the group blog, evoting experts.

David Dill, a Stanford computer science professor, said this is the first time electronic voting has really scrutinized. He voted using the kind of optical scan equiptment San Francisco uses. He said even though the machines could possibly have problems, at least there was a paper record of all votes.

People have been waiting in long lines in many precincts and machines breaking down has only lengthened the wait. Ren Bucholz, EFF's activism coordinator is in Columbus, OH. He said in some precincts there are over a thousand people waiting in line in the rain.

Cohn said although many states said it wasn't possible to have electronic voting machines with a paper trail, Nevada was able to work with their vendor to provide one.

Matt Zimmerman, an EFF attorney, said there are long lines in Miami where there are no back-up machines. He said Miami is one of the few places that allows non-partisan groups to observe the vote counting. Most states only allow representatives of parties to be present.

He said there were reports of machines in Palm Beach country where the ballots were filled out before the voter started using the machine and this caused confusion as they tried to change to the choices they wanted.

They said machines that didn't work should be pulled, but in many cases techs worked on them without superivision.

There is an online database of reports on voting problems which will be made available for anyone to study.

An MP3 of the call will be posted on EFF's webpage.

Josh Bearman of LA Weekly and Stephen Elliot are blogging from Florida.

I'll be going out soon to cover what is happening here in San Francisco for the SF Progressive.