N. Carolina extends voting time in eight Durham County precincts
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North Carolina has extended voting times in eight Durham County precincts after problems with electronic voting rolls there earlier in the day, the state election board said on Twitter.
Advocates including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had urged the state to extend voting time in Durham County until 9pm, an hour and a half past normal closing time.
However, the state board extended voting time by an hour in two precincts, and less than that in six others.
The Reverend William Barber, president of the NAACP in North Carolina, told members of the State Board of Elections on their conference call Tuesday evening that their refusal to extend voting hours as long as requested by local elections officials was "deeply concerning."
At one precinct where voting was extended for 60 minutes, election officials reported there had been up to a two-hour window earlier in the day where no voting took place due to problems.
