Voting briefly extended in Louisville, Kentucky, after traffic delays cap mostly smooth Election Day

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After a crowd had amassed outside the Kentucky Exposition Center, a judge extended voting hours by 30 minutes, allowing more than 100 people who were waiting outside the building to vote. The doors were then closed again."We did unlock the doors and we let everybody in and had them go vote," Jefferson County election spokesman Nore Ghibaudy told CNN.

It wasn't until the final moments before the polls closed when more people arrived to vote and the doors were locked, according to state law. People banged on the glass doors, demanding to be let in.They waited outside and were allowed in after the judge issued a ruling to open the doors until 6:30 p.m. ET, allowing anyone in who was on the sidewalk and the landing just outside the bank of doors.

 

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The reduction of polling places is a clear republican strategy to discourage voting. They fight against vote by mail and they reduce locations to vote. Biden camp you need to jump on this. This is tactical.

The story is these voters are turned away!!! Come on cnnbrk where ARE YOU?!

Seriously, why don’t Americans know how to conduct a problem free election?

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