Highest turnout ever?

Even though the presidential campaign has dragged on for almost two years, voters aren't so exhausted that they're staying away from the polls. In fact, numbers indicate just the opposite.

Early voters in Georgia have waited as long as eight hours in lines to cast ballots and avoid the expected crush of voters on Election Day. Already, 1.2 million people have voted in the state, more than 20 percent of the state's 5.6 million registered voters.

Election officials around the country are bracing themselves for a deluge of voters in an election that they expect will bring a record voter turnout.

Rock the Vote, which recruits younger Americans to cast ballots, has registered 2.3 million voters this year, compared with 1.4 million in 2004.

And early voting numbers are pointing to a record African-American turnout.

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist signed an executive order Tuesday that keeps early polling places open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., four hours longer than specified in state law.

Orange County, Calif., set up a drive-through poling station for a day to ease numbers at other locations.

Maryland officials expect an unprecedented 85 percent turnout, according to The Baltimore Sun. In Wisconsin, officials there expect a record 74 percent. Election officials in Virginia expect 90 percent to cast ballots there.

On Tuesday, Barack Obama's campaign released a video calling on voters to take Election Day off in order to knock on doors and get out the vote.

The massive turnout in early voting and an expected unprecedented turnout on Election Day have raised lawsuits in swing states from the left and the right about election officials' preparedness and ability to suppress fraud.

In Virginia, the NAACP sued Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine Monday, arguing that the state was not prepared to deal with turnout, though the Board of Elections said that Virginia has the required number of voting machines and booths, and that many far exceed the mandate.

Ohio has already had a series of court battles over preparations for elections, with the state Republican Party arguing that Ohio election officials had not updated voter-roll databases enough, leaving the door open for fraud. The U.S. Supreme Court threw out the case.

An appeals court in Indiana agreed to hear a case Thursday in which the GOP is requesting the state to shutter early voting sites in three largely Democratic cities near Chicago. Republicans argue the sites increase the risk of voter fraud, but Democrats see it as an effort to suppress minority votes.

Counties in Indiana, Mississippi, and Alabama have flabby voter rolls, with more registered voters than residents eligible to cast a ballot. Some states have identification requirements at the polls, which many hope will prevent fraud.

And local and federal investigations into thousands of questionable voter registrations under community-activist group ACORN continue.

Six days remain. The Associated Press contributed to this report.