The lovely bunny went to the polling station on her way to work this morning.

No joy.

The single voting machine was down with 40 people in line. She left and went to work where her colleagues describe similar problems in their precincts.

Not an auspicious start to the new era in electronic voting.

UPDATE: The local news station reports the following:

Herbert says the encoder cards, the cards that bring up a voter's precinct and correct ballot, aren't being programmed correctly. He says elections officials have brought in new encoded cards, and those polling locations should be up and running.

Voters at an elementary school in Cedar Hills say machines are going now, but when they showed up to vote at 7:00, the machines were not up, and voters were told to come back later. Many voters say they waited for more than an hour for the machines to come back up.

Utah County Clerk Kim Jackson says 32 of 118 polling locations were affected by the glitch, but he says elections officials have now walked through the process with precinct chairs to iron out the problems.

Not all that surprising. We'll need another generation before everyone is totally comfortable with computers.