by Arjun Singh, The Daily Caller:
- Voters continue to face problems in Luzerne County, a highly-watched swing county in Pennsylvania.
- The paper shortage that some voting precincts faced has not yet been resolved, with as many as seven mostly Republican townships still lacking paper.
- Voting was extended to 10 p.m., though some voters report being turned away on promises of being called back, later.
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Luzerne County, Pennsylvania — Voters continue to face problems at the polls in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, where polling precincts ran out of ballot paper earlier today.
Across the county, particularly in rural precincts outside the county seat in Hazelton, voters have been unable to cast ballots per normal procedure – printing a ballot paper after selecting options on a touch-screen voting machine, and scanning the ballot into a secure box. The problem was particularly severe at precincts in Shickshinny, Swoyersville and Shavertown, as observed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The absence of printed ballot paper has led to some voters being asked to cast provisional ballots, which are counted separately from ballots per the normal procedure, and are usually used for voters with eligibility concerns that are verified later. However, some polling stations ran out of provisional ballots, as well.
This led to some voters being turned away from the polls, told to “come back later” by poll workers who, in some cases, took down their contact details – with poll workers promising that they would be contacted when the paper arrived. One voter, Eliza from Union Township, told the DCNF that she received a text and voted in Shickshinny, three hours after initially trying to vote.
BREAKING: In Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, a judge just ordered the polls to stay open until 10 p.m. because voting machines literally ran out of paper. pic.twitter.com/SWihcheLOO
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 8, 2022
However, not all voters had received a text or telephone call by 8 p.m., when polls were initially slated to close, while at least seven Republican-heavy localities – Nioxin, Lake Leman, Harvey’s Lake, Hunlock, Slocum, Dorrance and Hazel Township – had not yet received paper for ballots at that time. This closing time was extended to 10 p.m. by a judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas at 1 p.m., as reported originally by the DCNF.
