{"id":1730346,"date":"2022-11-08T16:09:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T21:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730346"},"modified":"2022-11-08T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T21:17:50","slug":"voting-hours-extended-to-10pm-in-pas-luzerne-county-after-voting-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voting-hours-extended-to-10pm-in-pas-luzerne-county-after-voting-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting Hours Extended to 10PM in PA&#8217;s Luzerne County After Voting Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvoting-hours-extended-to-10pm-in-pas-luzerne-county-after-voting-problems%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730346&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/voting_pa_ap_KeithSrakocic.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A judge in Pennsylvania agreed to extend voting by two hours in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, after a paper shortage was discovered at polling places.<\/p>\n<p>The county\u2019s voting deadline was extended from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. under an emergency court order by Judge Lesa S. Gelb of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Gelb, in a one-page order, said \u201cthe constitutional right to vote requires an extension of the voting hours\u201d after Luzerne County voters, \u201cthrough no fault of their own, were disenfranchised and denied the fundamental right to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her ruling came within hours after an emergency petition was filed by Luzerne County election officials, who described in court papers the problems faced by poll workers on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon arriving at the polling locations to set up machines on Election Day poll workers at the Luzerne County polling locations discovered that the voting machines were seriously deficient of paper to print out the ballot after the voter uses the machine to vote,\u201d they wrote in court papers.<\/p>\n<p>As a stopgap measure, election workers used emergency and provisional ballots.<\/p>\n<p>The office of Luzerne County Bureau of Elections did not immediately respond when asked for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"thehill-promo-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/3725530-russia-and-us-to-resume-talks-over-nuclear-weapons-inspections\/\" class=\"thehill-promo-link__link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tRussia and US to resume talks over nuclear weapons inspections\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3725526-trump-says-desantis-could-have-been-more-gracious\/\" class=\"thehill-promo-link__link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tTrump says DeSantis \u2018could have been more gracious\u2019\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>At the time of their early afternoon court filing, the elections bureau said it was \u201cattempting to obtain the paper to supply all of the polling locations sufficiently.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The emergency petition also said some voters reported that they were unable to remain at the polls, and that they would be unable to return to vote until after polls had closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the immediate instance electors of Luzerne County may be deprived of their opportunity to participate because of circumstances beyond their control if the time for closing polls is not extended,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge in Pennsylvania agreed to extend voting by two hours in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, after a paper shortage was discovered at polling places. 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