does matter. >> oh, and, indeed it does. one small dime. the edge of a dime. that's about a 16th of an inch and today that was a problem. in 24 illinois counties and in the illinois' second largest city. the stiff aurora at least some of the ballots were a 16th of an inch too wide. that meant after they filled in the ovals they didn't fit into the optical scanning machines. as problems go for election officials that was a new one on them. >> i have never had that happen before. we have run smooth voting machine here when we open doors. but this morning just that much, curled up on the edges in the ballot box would not take them. >> we're told that some election officials trimmed the edges to make them fit. some are hand counting them. some are reconstructing ballots it all means that vote totals will probably be a bit delayed. shep? >> shepard: sounds like it. steve brown live nape perville, illinois tonight. much more to come in this evening. heck in live at rick santorum's headquarters which