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>> Just why did it take some people two, three, even four hours to vote on Tuesday? Well, a simple but forehead-slap-inducing combination of high turnout (good), faulty voting machines (bad) and a shortage of poll workers (lazy), the Post reports.

>> Is LivingSocial, D.C.’s favorite “tech” company, a cult? The cover story in the new issue of Washington City Paper certainly thinks so. Also, 31-year-old Tim O’Shaughnessy compares himself to God.

>> John Delaney, a Montgomery County Democrat, knocked off Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) in the race for Maryland’s sixth congressional district on Tuesday, largely with the help of a redrawn district map that turned Bartlett’s constituents from mostly conservative rural voters to liberal suburbanites. Delaney tells WAMU he is comfortable with the redistricting process.

Briefly Noted: Fairfax County voters approved a $30 million levee project, yay, infrastructure! … D.C.’s charter schools are mostly OK, but could be better. … Everything that Joe Biden ate on the campaign trail. … Shootings kill one in Prince George’s County, wound another in D.C.

This Day in DCist: Last year, Dan Snyder finally said goodbye to Albert Haynesworth. Also, the D.C. government pays for scuba divers. (They’re cops!)