JEFFERSON CITY — A long-standing debate between Republicans and Democrats over voting issues took another turn today as the Department of Justice dropped a 2005 federal lawsuit that had been filed against Secretary of State Robin Carnahan.

The suit alleged that…

Velda City voters waited as long as six hours

In case you missed it in today’s ink edition, check out the compelling story by Post-Dispatch scribe Elizabethe Holland about the the long lines endured by voters in Velda City.

The culprit: A break area…

P-D reporter Michele Munz, on the scene at Velda City city hall, says the line of voters waiting to vote is about 300 people.

An earlier estimate was 200.

And there are just 10 minutes until Missouri polls close. (Although everyone in…

Problems persist at Velda City city hall, says P-D reporter Michele Munz.

More than 200 people still waited to cast a ballot as night fell and the closing of polls neared. The wait: about 5 hours. Which, oddly, is an improvement…

More morning rush leads to evening calm: Jungs Station Baptist Church in St. Peters was quiet as polls closed tonight, reports P-D reporter Jessica Bock.

It had been a madhouse that morning.

“I’ve never seen a turnout like this morning,” said pollworker…

Seems the long lines from this morning have disappeared in some places.

In Jefferson County, at House Springs Intermediate School, voters found almost no lines, said P-D reporter Bob Kelly.

That morning, lines were running about two hours.

“I was in and out. I’m…

P-D reporter Terry Hillig notes that voting has been going smoothly this afternoon over in Illinois.

Visits to polling places in Troy, Belleville and St. Clair Township revealed no snafus, no lines, no problems.

Most problems – long lines, too few paper ballots, even a rogue Republican poll worker –  have happened in North County, said Joe Goeke, Republican Director of Elections for St. Louis County.

The result has been long waits at the polls, three to four…

St. Louis Dems drive an Obama RV around the city heckling encouraging voters:

Regional GOP works the phones telling people to get to the polls:

Here it is election day, a big day in the journalism business, and not just because it’s my birthday. But as you can tell by the activity on Political Fix, we’ve got a lot of reporters out in the field.…