While the midterm elections in the United States held on the 8th were generally going smoothly, in some regions, the voting was disrupted due to problems such as malfunctioning machines, CNN broadcast and other American media reported.
In Mercer County, New Jersey, countywide voting machines broke down, causing problems printing and scanning ballots. As a result, voters cast their votes manually rather than using machines.
The counting of the counting results in this county is likely to be delayed due to a breakdown in the voting machine.
The county said in an email to CNN that “may be delayed due to machine failure, but we plan to ensure that all voters can vote.”
In Bell County, Texas, technical problems had caused voting to be delayed by an hour. The clocks of some machines for checking voters were out of sync, making them unavailable at some polling places.
In Maricopa County, Arizona, more than 20 percent of the voting machines are malfunctioning or not working, officials said.
Due to the problem that some machines did not recognize the ballot, the county decided to count the ballot separately after storing it in a locker at the polling place.
In Champaign County, Illinois, the website was hacked and the process of verifying voter information was delayed for a while.
In Louisiana, polling places were moved due to bomb threats.
The state of Louisiana said the polling station was moved to a nearby elementary school after a Cana Discovery School outside New Orleans was threatened.
Earlier, the school was threatened with a bomb attack five days ago, and middle and high school students were evacuated, local police said.
In Westband, Wisconsin, a 38-year-old man was arrested by police after threatening polling workers with a knife and demanding that they “stop voting”.
In Johns Creek, Georgia, it was revealed on social media shortly after voting began that a mother and child who worked as a polling station worker had participated in a raid on the Capitol on January 6 last year, and authorities suspended their work and sent them out of the polling station.
In Beaumont, Texas, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons (NAACP) sued and a court ordered a ban on voting because polling station workers made it harder to identify black voters and stood right behind them while they voted. did.
The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the most contested sites for the U.S. Senate, also decided to go through a verification process this morning to prevent voters from voting twice.
The process, which compares the vote-by-mail ballot with the on-site voter roster at the polling place to ensure that the voter is not voting twice, could delay counting, US media reported.
Previously, a Republican group had filed a lawsuit alleging that Philadelphia reduced the verification process and increased the likelihood of double voting, but the court dismissed it.
Additionally, in Lucerne County, Pennsylvania, voting was delayed until 10 p.m. as ballots could not be printed due to insufficient ballots.
In North Carolina and Georgia, some polling places opened late and extended deadlines.