Senior officials in Cumbria County, Pennsylvania, said a voting malfunction at a polling station this morning was caused by a typographical error, and new ballots were en route to the polling place.
U.S. election officials in Cumbria County, Pennsylvania, who were interrupted by a software glitch that caused scanning of ballots, applied to the court to extend voting hours to 10 p.m. local time on Tuesday, which the court has granted. Ballots cast after 8 p.m. will be considered provisional ballots, according to the court order. The Cumbria County Board of Elections said in a statement earlier Tuesday that the software glitch prevented voters from scanning ballots, but that this should not a...
The office of the county commission in Cumbria, Pa., a swing state, said voting hours had been extended because of a "software glitch" that prevented voters from scanning ballots. County election officials insisted that "procedures are in place to deal with such issues" and that glitches "should not prevent voters from casting ballots in their own voting districts". Mr. Luciew, a voter, said: "When we [Mr. Luciew and his wife] got there, it was surprisingly empty. People left saying the machine ...