The Wall Street Journal reports huge turnout yesterday:

In California, 4.1 million voters cast ballots through early voting procedures before polls opened yesterday. That would suggest a total turnout of nine million of the state’s 22 million eligible voters, said Michael McDonald of the United States Elections Project, a research center at Virginia’s George Mason University. Four years ago, California’s turnout was 6.6 million, the center reported.

In Tennessee, a number equal to 10% of the state’s 3.3 million active registered voters cast their ballots before election day. In Colorado, the number of absentee ballots cast was nearly double that of four years ago, the Associated Press reported. And in Connecticut, several towns had to photocopy blank ballots to meet demand. In Stratford, officials put a call out to the town’s printer for more ballots long before the polls closed at 8 p.m., the AP reported.

In Virginia, which doesn’t vote until next week, the AP quoted the state board of elections as saying it had received 400 calls by midafternoon, many from voters who wanted to know why their voting places were closed.

While the New York Times reports that despite a few problems nothing major went wrong at the polls yesterday.