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This has been an amazing presidential race in almost every way. OffTheBus has depended on you to report it and we're depending on you to send us your comments tonight. Let us know what you think about our...

Thank you, HuffPost readers, for sending your voting stories. If you haven't already, you can file them here.

My polling place was a local Catholic church, which felt a bit strange since I've never been in a church before outside of weddings. Outside of a few crucifixes...

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My polling place was a local Catholic church, which felt a bit strange since I've never been in a church before outside of weddings. Outside of a few crucifixes...

Thank you, HuffPost readers, for sending your voting stories. If you haven't already, you can file them here.

LA county - huge long lines everywhere. Lots of voters being asked to vote on provisional ballots. Not enough poll workers. Voters are not waiting in line. Sandra P. Thompson Los...

Thank you, HuffPost readers, for sending your voting stories. If you haven't already, you can file them here.

What I entered happened to be lines run amok. Instead of having an easy flow to check in there were four lines crushed in together with most people not...

Thank you, HuffPost readers, for sending your voting stories. If you haven't already, you can file them here.

I'm a 73-year-old white women. I was in line an hour before the polling place opened. There were already a dozen or so ahead of me. It was a congenial group,...

Twitter Vote Report is a non-partisan, all-volunteer network of software developers, designers, and other collaborators who have teamed up with the award-winning blog techPresident to launch this effort. The idea is to use Twiiter technology to instantly tweet (or mini-blog) Election Day events and experiences at your...

You Tube and PBS have teamed up to produce the Video Your Vote project, in which they ask citizens around the country to take a video camera with them to the polls and upload the results. The collective experience will be available for viewing at the project site....

Thank you, HuffPost readers, for sending your voting stories. If you haven't already, you can file them here.

We had requested absentee ballots, so we only had to drop it off, but the line for people waiting to get an absentee ballot was ridiculous....

By Diane Tucker and Dawn Teo

One under-reported aspect of the Obama campaign's fundraising prowess is its strategy to charge most of its supporters for campaign paraphernalia. The strategy -- both innovative and controversial -- is a boon to the campaign, raising the number of low-dollar donors and...

So just how good -- or bad-- was your own experience voting? Did you feel like the line was so long you were actually voting in the 2012 primary? Did the poll workers know what were they doing? Or did it feel like it was all being run by FEMA?...

Several OffTheBus Grassroots Correspondents are also poll workers. We asked them to journal their poll training. Below are their accounts.

"We had our final training before the November 4 election yesterday. Much of the emphasis was on how to handle challenges. Iowa has a new law that requires...

OffTheBus's Grassroots Correspondents are journaling their experiences as campaign volunteers and activists, detailing what they see and hear when they hit the road, troll the local mall or phone voters around the country. Humorous, poignant, and revealing, these are straight from the ground stories about what people see and hear....

by Sarah Moglewer, Marlene H. Phillips and Auburn McCanta

It is amazing how John McCain's very red home state has turned a deep purple in just four short years - and with any luck, will be electric blue by Election Day. According to the latest polls released one week...

This is the last pre-election Eyes and Ears post. Thanks for all your submissions! This is our final chance to read about how people across the country are reacting to the campaigns, and the results are fantastic! Naturally, Palin costumes abound for Halloween. Others communicated their hopes for the next...

The end of the 2008 presidential campaign is in sight and, by the tone of the latest OTB readers' submissions, more Americans are clearly taking sides. From Maryland to Arizona, campaign confrontations range from good-humored to well-charged, as you will read below. There is still time to send us your...

Update: Since this tribute was written, the authorities have determined that Carol Anne Burger, one of OffTheBus' volunteer citizen journalists, murdered her former partner, Jessica Kalish, and then killed herself. It goes without saying that this is a tragedy for both the Kalish and Burger families, and all who knew...

From smear email campaigns and hectoring rally audiences to hateful YouTubes and candidate equivocations, slurs against Muslims and Arabs have become increasingly prevalent this election season. Yet this culturally toxic component of the campaigns has only fully entered the mainstream over the last couple of weeks, being covered at major...

OffTheBus readers continue to share their natural wit as we approach the end of the 2008 presidential campaign. It's tough work to choose, but we have picked new entries from hundreds of submissions that show the variety of political observations East to West. If you are volunteering on a campaign...

Are you volunteering for the McCain-Palin campaign or a conservative group this weekend? We are looking for people to share their experiences out on the trail. Sign up to be one of our journal writers.

We are NOT asking you to reveal campaign secrets with us. What we want is...