State Board of Elections votes to extend hours in 8 Durham locations

The state board voted 3-2 Tuesday night to extend voting by an hour in two precincts most affected by a computer glitch. Six other precincts will have their hours extended based on exactly how many minutes voters were unable to cast ballots.

The county asked for 45 minutes but the state board allowed only 30 minutes extra voting time.

Democracy North Carolina filed the case in a state court, shortly before the state board of elections is set to decide whether voting in Durham County should be extended.

“If we do get reports we have an investigations team at the State Board of Elections, one of the few states that has such a team, and they are constantly on the phones and will go to the counties if they need to to investigate”. An earlier news release notes that Durham elections officials haven’t reported significant wait times through most of the day. A second issue arose when one precinct ran out of authorization to vote forms. Polls will close at 7:30 p.m.in NC and 7 p.m.in SC.

Optical scanner issues were reported in the following counties – Cleveland, Gates, Orange, Cumberland, Wake, Craven and Forsyth.

They say a weakened Voting Rights Act, incendiary campaign rhetoric and confusion over controversial state laws that restrict voting opportunities have created a ideal storm for Election Day problems.

His challenger Deborah Ross delivered her concession speech at state Democratic headquarters in Raleigh.

She said one voter stopped to give her hand warmers: “It was really sweet”.

A recap of the election results in North Carolina – from the presidency to the governor’s mansion.

The headline in Politico, an online publication, summed up the attention the national campaigns were showering on the state the day before the election: “The day North Carolina became the Center of the Political Universe”.

North Carolina has been one of the most highly contested states in this election. If you spend two hours in line waiting to vote, next time out you’ll be thinking about how to avoid such lines. McKissick said some students had left without voting.

DOJ said it has people watching voting sites in 67 jurisdictions around the country, including many in Florida, North Carolina, Texas and Pennsylvania.

“The take-home lesson here is that Mother Nature hath no fury like a Republican pol scorned: while flooding of biblical proportions certainly hasn’t helped voter turnout, this year voter suppression appears to substantially outstrip Hurricane Matthew as a force depressing North Carolina’s African American vote”, the blog concludes.

Barber told CNN that the group has lawyers throughout the state and that they are not ruling out legal action on any voter suppression issues.

And in Miami, complaints have come in about a deputy polling official who refused to enforce the “campaign-free zone” outside the perimeter of a polling place.