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Election day voting problems: North Carolina polls should be kept open until 9pm, group requests in legal challenge Election day voting problems: North Carolina Board of Elections extends voting hours by 90 minutes
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The battleground state of North Carolina is at the centre of a legal challenge after an activist group filed a lawsuit asking that polls in Durham County be kept open until 9pm after problems with electronic voting rolls there earlier in the day. North Carolina’s Board of Elections voted on Tuesday to extend voting in Durham County in eight precincts by 90-minutes. The decision comes after technical issues were reported earlier in the day.
The Durham County Board of Elections requested on Tuesday that voting in the county be extended by 90 minutes, and a nonprofit group sued the state board of elections for the extension, CNN reported. Durham County’s Board of Elections previously requested the extension and will receive 20 to 60 minutes for residents to cast their ballot. The county is majority Democrat and has a large minority population, according to CNN.
The unanimous recommendation, which was sent to the state Board of Elections at 1.30pm, came after a glitch in the electronic voter check-in system required a switch to paper roll books, according to the Durham County Board of Elections. The unanimous recommendation was sent to the state Board of Elections at 1:30pm came after a glitch in the electronic voter check-in system required a switch to paper roll books.
By state rules, all voting locations in the county have to be affected for an extension of voting hours. The county has brought in 60 additional staff to work on providing more data to the state on how much the voting has been affected. "As a result of these events, voting in Durham County was interrupted at multiple sites for at least one hour," Democracy North Carolina said in a statement.
At least five precincts in North Carolina had to switch to paper poll books earlier in the day. The move came “out of an abundance of caution”.  By state rules, all voting locations in the county have to be affected for an extension of voting hours.
The county has brought in 60 additional staff to work on providing more data to the state on how much the voting has been affected.