Most of the ballots are in at the Marion County election center, but County Commissioner Wayne Stutler says there is no telling how soon they will be counted.

The machines that scan the ballots quit tabulating votes around 7:30 p.m. when clerks tried to feed in the results of early voting. Stutler says that caused a glitch in the software and stopped all vote-counting.

He says the cause is unclear. The problem may be in the software or a program.

A technician was on site and had tried several possible repairs, but Stutler says that as of 9 p.m., none had worked.

Sixty-one of the county's 76 precincts were in.

One John McCain supporter in West Virginia didn't let the untimely birth of her seventh child keep her from voting.

But when Daniel Charles Parker came into the world two weeks ahead of schedule at 3 a.m. Tuesday at an out-of-state hospital, 38-year-old Heidi Parker thought she's lost her chance to help determine who would lead this country "in the right way."

It took back and forth phones calls involving her husband Matthew, social workers and nurses at a hospital in Maryland and local and state election officials in West Virginia. Ultimately, the Jefferson County Commission voted to allow two clerks _ one Republican and one Democrat _ to hand deliver a ballot to Parker in the maternity ward of Frederick Memorial Hospital. She was expected to cast her ballot Tuesday afternoon.