Overview
- Election Day disruptions on Tuesday prompted the North Carolina State Board of Elections to hold an emergency meeting and approve targeted extensions at five precincts, which pushed the statewide posting of unofficial results to about 8:15 p.m.
- Westchester County, New York stopped scanning ballots after officials said paper ballots were too thick for machines and placed those ballots in emergency orange bags under monitoring from Attorney General Letitia James for later hand count or delayed scanning.
- Fulton County, Georgia reported two scanner malfunctions that affected 1,069 early ballots and proposed an alternate counting process to protect chain of custody while officials determine how to proceed.
- A pulled fire alarm at the University of Texas at Austin briefly halted voting for about 10 minutes before the site reopened and law enforcement began an investigation into the disruption.
- Flash flooding in Florida forced the opening of 23 temporary polling sites across seven counties and left election officials and prosecutors reviewing isolated operational problems rather than pointing to any confirmed, wider fraud risk.