Spineless Amerikans have no interest in fair and accurate elections.

NEW YORK (PNN) - November 6, 2012 - In Virginia and Texas, some voters waited in line for four hours. In Pennsylvania, there were inappropriate demands for official photo IDs. Recorded calls went out to residents of Florida saying misleadingly that they had until 7:00 p.m. “tomorrow” to vote; and in Ohio, there seemed to be an unusually high number of provisional ballots, causing concern that they might not all get counted.

Election Day had its share of flaws and partisan disputes, but it seemed unlikely late Tuesday that they would cause a major shift in the result or set the stage for a big lawsuit. A judge in Galveston, Texas, ordered polls to stay open a bit late because of crowds, and there were court orders in Pennsylvania barring observers from interfering with voters. Still, the day was largely uninterrupted by judicial activity.

Liberal nonpartisan groups, gathered into an alliance called Election Protection, said they received more than 80,000 calls to their hot line seeking help from confused voters. The alliance, organized by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, had 5,000 lawyer volunteers in the field and 2,000 people on phones in 28 call centers in 80 jurisdictions.

One of their biggest concerns was the apparently large number of provisional ballots given to voters in Ohio, the state many consider the central battleground for the presidential election. Provisional ballots are given when information presented by the voter does not match the registration roll or insufficient identification is presented. By law, provisional ballots must be counted if officials later determine the voter is legitimate. Traditionally, up to 20% of provisional ballots end up not getting counted.

Latino voters said they faced daunting lines in Virginia, Ohio, Nevada, and especially South Florida, but many Latino leaders said the wait was largely a result of robust turnout.

Legal action might follow later, once margins of victory in swing states were clearer. As for Election Day itself, the lack of court activity may have been because both Democrats and Republicans had trained and planned for months and were out in force watching poll workers - and each other.