From the New York Times:

Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem’s 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.

That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city’s 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district.

City election officials this week said that their formal review of the results, which will not be completed for weeks, had confirmed some major discrepancies between the vote totals reported publicly — and unofficially — on primary night and the actual tally on hundreds of voting machines across the city.

In the Harlem district, for instance, where the primary night returns suggested a 141 to 0 sweep by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the vote now stands at 261 to 136. In an even more heavily black district in Brooklyn — where the vote on primary night was recorded as 118 to 0 for Mrs. Clinton — she now barely leads, 118 to 116.

The history of New York elections has been punctuated by episodes of confusion, incompetence and even occasional corruption. And election officials and lawyers for both Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton agree that it is not uncommon for mistakes to be made by weary inspectors rushing on election night to transcribe columns of numbers that are delivered first to the police and then to the news media.

That said, in a presidential campaign in which every vote at the Democratic National Convention may count, a swing of even a couple of hundred votes in New York might help Mr. Obama gain a few additional delegates.

City officials are insisting nothing sinister and have confirmed that Clinton also received zero votes in some districts which on second account proved to be false. Looks like we have a case of people rushing to get vote totals in even if they were less than accurate. Still it goes to show what shambles our current system is in and why, perhaps, the media (myself included) should take some time and wait before rushing to call these things or count delegates.

Meanwhile some on the left see foul play. Not to sound this way but they see corruption anywhere Ms. Clinton seems to win so I am hesitant to read more into this than just either incompetence or a breakdown in the system.

Incase you were wondering New Mexico has still not been won. 17,000 provisional ballots are being counted.

With 183 of 184 of precincts reporting, Hillary Rodham Clinton held a lead of 1,092 votes — 67,921 votes compared to 66,829 for Barack Obama, according to preliminary results posted on the state Democratic Party’s Web site.

Provisional ballots are given to voters who show up to the wrong site, whose names are not on registered voter lists provided by the state or who requested an absentee ballot but signed an affidavit saying they did not return it.

Democratic Party Chairman Brian Colon said 17,077 provisional ballots were cast, about 12 percent of the total.

When the provisional count is done, it may mean only a gain of a few delegates for the winning candidate. Clinton and Obama are vying for 26 of New Mexico’s 38 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Twelve so-called superdelegates are not bound by caucus results.

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.

With 92% of the precincts in 518 votes are all that divides Obama & Clinton. Obama is currently in the lead but this should be a close one.

One thing unified all the candidates last night, they declared victory. Every one of the candidates found something to celebrate and here is what they had to say.

Hillary Clinton

John McCain

Barack Obama

Mitt Romney

Mike Huckabee

WOW, once again I am amazed but MSNBC has just declared John McCain the winner in California.

WOW, I am amazingly surprised that anyone called it this soon but MSNBC just declared Hillary Clinton the winner of California.

Idaho caucuses (Dems only) (Obama)
Montana caucuses (GOP only) (Romney)
North Dakota caucuses (Obama, Romney)
Utah primaries (Obama, Romney)

9 States

Alabama primaries (Obama, Huckabee)
Connecticut primaries (Obama, McCain)
Delaware primaries (Obama, McCain)
Illinois primaries (Obama, McCain)
Massachusetts primaries (Clinton, Romney)
Missouri primaries (Obama, McCain)
New Jersey primaries (Clinton, McCain)
Oklahoma primaries (Clinton, McCain)
Tennessee primaries (Clinton, Huckabee)

Associated Press has information from the early exit polls.

For more on how exit polls are conducted check out this link. Also check out the official Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International the group that conducts these polls for all the networks and media.