Al Jazeera reported voting disruptions in five states during Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections, as officials in one county planned a manual count and authorities elsewhere extended or considered longer voting hours.
Westchester County officials said ballot scanners had difficulty reading ballots printed on paper that was too thick. They said ballots would be transported under police escort to the Board of Elections and counted by hand, with attorneys and representatives of all parties present.
Al Jazeera reported that a power outage temporarily closed a school polling site in Arizona’s Maricopa County. In Florida’s Broward County, a malfunction in a new safety feature delayed voting by 20 minutes at the start of the day, the outlet reported.
North Carolina’s Board of Elections was considering adding an hour of voting in seven counties after technical problems were reported. In several Pennsylvania counties, officials extended voting by 30 minutes, citing problems during machine setup.
