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http://www.alternet.org/democracy/103798/virgina%2C_pennsylvania

Several battleground states are not prepared to meet the challenge of administering the general election on November 4th, where turnout will be unprecedented, According to a report conducted by Advancement Project, a national leading voter protection organization.

In Pennsylvania, Advancement Project estimated potential turnout at three different levels for Berks, Montgomery counties and Philadelphia, to assess the impact of polling place resource allocations. Based on these estimates and the actual numbers of machines and poll workers assigned to different precincts, Advancement Project has concluded that many jurisdictions appear severely under-resourced and ill-prepared.

....the majority of precincts in Berks and Montgomery Counties would not be able to process all of its voters in 13 hours, and there are precincts in all those counties as well as Philadelphia that could potentially need more than 20 or even 30 hours to process all voters

http://www.miller-mccune.com/article/it-may-be-harder-to-vote

It May Be Harder to Vote in Swing States

Plaintiffs are also seeking an order blocking ACORN from all attempts to "encourage voters who have submitted false or duplicate registration forms from voting or attempting to vote in the 2008 General Election," according to a Pennsylvania GOP press release.

http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/attachments/1908.pdf

Poll workers, no matter how well intentioned, can become confused by the minutiae of election law. Here is what one man—an election activist, no less—wrote to colleagues after the Pennsylvania primary: “As an election judge last Tuesday in a heavily minority recinct in Lancaster I can attest to the fact there were several instances of newly registered voters who showed up to vote (in the Democratic primary) but couldn’t because they were listed as independent or no party. At no point were we instructed to allow these voters to cast a provisional ballot, and frankly, it did not occur to me to rovide them with one.” Curiously, the election judge, who runs the precinct, said he did give a provisional ballot to a man who insisted he was a registered Democrat, which is what he should have been doing all along. Voters who know their rights can insist on better treatment.

What if your ballot doesn’t arrive? The first step, for domestic voters, is to call the county election office and ask why you have not received your ballot. This is important; in some states, like Pennsylvania, people who were listed as absentee voters but showed up to vote at their former local precinct were not allowed to cast ballots in the primary. Nobody wants to be in that situation in November.

In Pennsylvania, paperless machines also did not turn on at the start of voting, causing lines and delays.