Bad machines, long lines and polling confusions: What we're hearing about voting problems on Election Day
by Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times
Nov 07, 2018
4 minutes
Thousands of calls about broken voting machines, hours-long lines and confusion at polling places poured into a hotline set up by a coalition of civil rights and legal aid groups Tuesday, with voters at more than 100 polling sites across the country phoning in problems on Election Day.
In Gwinnett County, Ga., voters said there were snaking lines after four machines malfunctioned early in the day and left them to submit provisional ballots. In Chicago, elections officials asked a judge to extend voting hours at five locations after precincts opened late and voters said ballot pages were missing. In parts of the Deep South,
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