Tonight is one of the biggest election nights this cycle with primaries in 11 states in one special election in Georgia.

Follow election results tonight on FDL, especially crucial Senate primaries and California’s slate of propositions.

After Garland County, Arkansas closed 40 of its 42 polling places for today’s runoff election, voters who wanted to vote early were turned away all week. Now, on Election Day, the full extent of the county’s boneheaded decision to make it more difficult for residents to vote is coming to bear with “long lines and parking problems.”

Hey, Blanche kicked off her campaign by doing a little dance on the grave of the public option, so at least she’s consistent.

It’s hard to know whether the New York Time’s content or the timing of the piece are more suspect, but appearing as it does on a hotly contested election day it does not rise to the level of responsible journalism.

Tuesday, June 8 is one of the biggest days in politics this cycle with primary elections in 11 states: California, Iowa, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia and Arkansas, which hosts a primary runoff. In three of these states–Arkansas, California and Nevada—voters are choosing contenders for crucial seats in the US Senate, and one incumbent is fighting for her job.

Voters are in fact being turned away as seen in the video posted here. Says Blue Arkansas, “make no mistake about it, they’re stealing the election for Blanche Lincoln.”

Remember that promise Charles Tapp made to open the Garland County polls so that there would be more than two polling places available in Bill Halter’s strongest county?

That was a lie.

Bill Halter has maintained a narrow lead over Blanche Lincoln in the R2K/Daily Kos poll, shockingly one of the only pollsters surveying the runoff election. I find it puzzling that almost nobody polled this race leading up to the primary election, and nobody’s wading into it now. It’s a tough race to poll, because there are no restrictions on primary voters, making it tough to model the electorate. However, to vote in the runoff you had to have either voted in the primary on the Democratic side or not voted, cutting out everyone who voted in the Republican primary and at least narrowing things down a bit. Markos says that Halter has kept his lead, but turnout will be the key.

Lincoln’s phoniness on derivatives is the key point of the campaign, IMO. She’s wearing this bill as a badge of honor, when she couldn’t even defend her own proposal to her colleagues, and chose not to defend it on the floor of the Senate, when Maria Cantwell tried to close a massive loophole inserted into the language.