The final hours of the primary campaign between Senator Joseph I. Lieberman
and his challenger, Ned Lamont, were consumed by an angry dispute over
assertions that Lamont supporters had crashed the Lieberman campaign
Web site and disrupted its internal communications network.

The clash came today as voters turned out in strong numbers to
decide a contest that had become, in many ways, a referendum on Mr.
Lieberman’s staunch defense of the Iraq war, an issue that had focused
national attention on the race and galvanized antiwar Democrats and many opponents of President Bush into supporting Mr. Lamont.

Based on reports from polling stations, the state was on track to break
its previous record for turnout in a statewide primary, which was 38.8
percent in the 1970 Senate race. State officials said turnout could be
as high as 45 or even 50 percent.[\q]

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