NC voters demand polls stay open late after technical glitches

Voting rights advocates want Durham County, North Carolina, to extend voting hours, citing a slew of technical problems.

"We have received dozens of calls as of 11am today of issues in Durham County," wrote Allison Riggs, a lawyer with the Southern Coalition for Justice, to the state Board of Elections.

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Riggs wrote that electronic poll books broke down, forcing precincts to use paper books and causing long delays. She added that this also caused precincts to run out of paper "Authorization to Vote" forms. As a result, Riggs wrote, some voters were told to come back later.

"This is not acceptable," wrote Riggs.

She asked that the polls be kept open until 8:30 p.m., an hour later than scheduled, and said if the board declines to do so, "we will pursue all legal options available to us."

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Patrick Gannon, a spokesman for the state board, said the board would meet later Tuesday to decide whether to extend voting hours.

"We had some glitches in a few precincts with the computers, so the state board, out of an abundance of caution, directed all of Durham County to use paper poll books instead of the computer poll books. We are working right now with the county to try to speed up the process so there are not major delays," he said in a statement to NBC News.