As much as a techno-freak as I am, I am seriously beginning to think we should go back to casting paper ballots on one day, and waiting until the next day(s) to count them.
I agree. There was a joke running around that computers allow someone to make thousands of errors per second, rather than just one or two.
I think that votes should be made on paper with indelible markers. I don't know about asking the media to embargo its reports until the next day, or at least until Alaska and Hawaii close; I don't think that's quite right.