USA Today: Long lines slow voting at polling locations across Texas and California

03.3.2020 / By William Cummings and Bart Jansen
USA Today: Long lines slow voting at polling locations across Texas and California

Kathay Feng, executive director of Common Cause of California, said election officials were using a new system for electronically checking voter registration and for marking ballots, which created voting delays. "At the same time that there is extremely high voter turnout, people are able to ask for same-day registration, people are able to request party registration change and to indicate that they want crossover voting," Feng said. Those requests are "causing extreme delays," she said, reported at 45 to 90 minutes.

LOS ANGELES – Long lines were still be reported at Los Angeles County voting centers at dusk on Tuesday amid reports of balloting machines breaking and other problems in the first test of a revamped election system in California’s largest county. …

Kathay Feng, executive director of Common Cause of California, said election officials were using a new system for electronically checking voter registration and for marking ballots, which created voting delays.

“At the same time that there is extremely high voter turnout, people are able to ask for same-day registration, people are able to request party registration change and to indicate that they want crossover voting,” Feng said. Those requests are “causing extreme delays,” she said, reported at 45 to 90 minutes.

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