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Subject Will Election Day be a 'perfect storm?' Four nightmare scenarios for what could go wrong

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Original Message With more than 90 million Americans expected to cast their ballots on Tuesday, election officials across the country are bracing for what some fear will be a “perfect storm” of election day problems that could result in tense confrontations at polling stations and a rush to the courthouse to file legal challenges.

The list of actual and potential problems is unusually long this year, ranging from concerns about machine failures to confusion over new rules governing voter ID and provisional ballots.

Here’s a look at four of those scenarios:

1) The national vote count for president is thrown into doubt because of the impact of Hurricane Sandy.

2) A large number of provisional ballots makes the Electoral College winner impossible to determine on election night.

3) Disputes over ballot printing errors, machine errors, and a lack of paper trail could bog down the counting in other battleground states.

4) Legions of citizen poll watchers on both sides create confusion and even chaos at some polling stations.

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