Late-night computer glitches had Cuyahoga County wobbling to the end of Tuesday's election.
The vote was the kind of low-turnout, ballot-lite poll perfect to test Cuyahoga's electronic system -- one that's guaranteed to be among the most-watched during next year's presidential election.
But a 20-minute shutdown slowed counting around 9:30 p.m. Then a half-hour crash around 10:40 p.m. stalled tabulations again. At that point, the board changed its procedures and backed up its vote totals every 45 minutes.
By 11:30 p.m., about 43 percent of precincts were counted.

A special prosecutor ended a two-year drive to convict two Cuyahoga County election workers for rigging a ballot recount during the hotly contested 2004 presidential election.
Monday morning, the defendants agreed to a deal that will allow them to get probation without admitting any wrongdoing and avoid convictions if they stay out of trouble.

Elections board spokesman Alan Melamed said fewer than 10 polling places had to use paper ballots this morning. Melamed did not have the site locations, and it wasn’t clear how many paper ballots have been cast.

All 88 counties for the first time Tuesday used electronic voting - either touch-screen machines or paper ballots read by optical scan machines as voters selected candidates for governor, Congress and statewide offices.

Also, voters for the first time were required to show identification at the polls.