Widespread issues have been [SIZE=16px]reportedly across North Carolina on Tuesday as millions of residents attempted to vote.[/SIZE]
In Durham County, as many as six
precincts reported software [SIZE=16px]malfunctions with the laptops used to verify voter registration. The glitches prompted a county-wide switch to[/SIZE]
using paper rolls, causing one [SIZE=16px]precinct to run out of authorization-to-vote forms.[/SIZE]
At one precinct, voting was halted for [SIZE=16px]two hours when it ran out of forms, according to the Raleigh News &[/SIZE]
Observer .
The county elections board has [SIZE=16px]requested to keep the polls open 90 extra minutes because of the delay,[/SIZE]
and is waiting on a ruling from the [SIZE=16px]state board.[/SIZE]
The issue could end up hurting [SIZE=16px]Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton - nearly 40% of Durham County[/SIZE]
residents are black, one of her key [SIZE=16px]voting blocs. The county voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama in[/SIZE]
2012.
Meanwhile, across the state, reports [SIZE=16px]of missing registrations were filed by voters who said they tried to register through the Department of Motor[/SIZE]
Vehicles.
The problem arose on the first day of [SIZE=16px]early voting, when the names of some voters who tried to register[/SIZE]
through the DMV didn’t appear on [SIZE=16px]voter rolls. A federal judge ordered state election officials to count[/SIZE]
provisional ballots from those voters, [SIZE=16px]but on Tuesday, apparently not[/SIZE]
everyone was offered a ballot.
“It’s seeming to us that some poll [SIZE=16px]workers are not up to speed on that,”[/SIZE]
Allison Riggs, senior attorney with [SIZE=16px]the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, told The Washington Post. Briggs said the number of reports could be in the thousands.[/SIZE]
Some voting disruptions were
reported in Charlotte, North Carolina’s
largest city, as well. According to The
Charlotte Observer , one man said he [SIZE=16px]tried to select Donald Trump on his[/SIZE]
voting machine 10 to 15 times before
the machine registered his vote.
“It may have been a sensitive or slow
computer, but seemed like an odd [SIZE=16px]experience,” he told The Observer.[/SIZE]
Polls suggest North Carolina could [SIZE=16px]see one of the tightest races in the country. The state is particularly critical for Trump, as he has few credible paths to the White House[/SIZE]
without it.
Voting controversies have been a [SIZE=16px]recurring theme in the Tar Heel State recently. Last week, a federal judge[/SIZE]
ruled the state needed to restore the [SIZE=16px]voting eligibility of nearly 7,000 voters who had been illegally purged[/SIZE]
from registration lists.
Earlier this year, a federal appeals [SIZE=16px]court struck down the state’s[/SIZE]
contentious voter identification law
for deliberately targeting black voters
“with almost surgical precision.”
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