The Legal Battles Begin: GOP, Dems Spar Over Voting in Pennsylvania

CNN

As voters head to the poll today to choose between Mitt Romney and President Obama, thousands of lawyers and poll watchers from both camps are engaged in their own parallel battle over which votes will be counted.
The first shot fired in the battle came this morning in Philadelphia, Pa., where Republican officials protested to the state's Court of Common pleas that their inspectors were being blocked from polling places.
Pennsylvania GOP officials said that about 75 Republican inspectors in Philadelphia were not able to access polling places.
"This was a shameless attempt from the Obama campaign to suppress our legally appointed Republican poll watchers in Philadelphia and they got caught," Rob Gleason, chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party, said in a statement.
Democrats argued that the issue was about credentialing, and that they were trying to ensure that the inspectors had valid certificates in order to be seated at the polling places. The court quickly issued an order saying that certified inspectors should be allowed into their designated polling places.