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Officials with the Collier County Supervisor of Elections Office determined Tuesday night that the 1,000 faulty ballots have white blemishes in the tracking area on the left-hand margin. This prevented the machines from scanning them properly.

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With nearly all polls closed across the country, CBS News projects that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama will become the 44th president of the United States.

Incumbent U.S. Rep. Mario-Diaz Balart, R-Miami, was running slightly ahead of challenger Joe Garcia, D-Miami, late Tuesday with most precincts reporting.

Democrats unseated Republican House incumbents in Florida and Connecticut on Tuesday and jumped to early leads over Republicans in more than a dozen other contests as they pressed to increase their majority.

Republican Matt Hudson held a lead over Maria Jimenez in the race for the Florida House District 101 seat.

Officials with the Collier County Supervisor of Elections Office determined Tuesday night that about 1,000 ballots have white blemishes in the tracking area on the left hand margin that won't allow them to be read by the vote-scanning machines that count the ballots.

CNN has called the US House District 14 seat for Republican Connie Mack.

The three Republican incumbents for Lee County Commission have won re-election. Ray Judah, Bob Janes and Frank Mann all have mathematically insurmountable leads with a 163 of 171 precincts reporting in Lee County.

Incumbent Nick Thompson, a Republican, appears to have won re-election to the state Legislature and will likely serve a second term in the District 73 seat.