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Riverside County sees unexpected in-person voting delays due to computer system slowdowns
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Voters in Riverside County encountered some sudden delays Saturday after voter help facilities opened for in-person voting and mail-in poll drop offs, Riverside officers stated.
Riverside County spokesperson Brooke Federico stated some facilities had been experiencing “intermittent delays” in processing ballots resulting from system slowdowns to search for voter registrations.
“The county group is working diligently to make sure that all websites are processing voters as rapidly as doable,” Federico stated in a information launch Saturday. “Some voters could also be supplied a provisional poll if the situation they’re visiting is experiencing delays.”
State Sen. Melissa Melendez tweeted earlier that voting machines in Riverside County stopped working Saturday.
“Voting machines in Riverside County are down. We’re engaged on discovering out what the issue is and when the registrar could have this fastened. That is utterly unacceptable,” she wrote shortly after midday.
The county later confirmed the delays and stated workers members had been working to deal with the problems.
Excessive voter turnout at some polling places triggered the computer systems used to confirm voters’ eligibility to decelerate, the Press-Enterprise reported.
In the meantime, county officers stated the machines voters use to solid their ballots have been working correctly.
“There have been no stories of delays with the poll marking machines on the voter help facilities,” Frederico said within the information launch. “Poll marking machines should not related to the web, and solely mark ballots which can be printed after which solid in a poll field.”
The Riverside County Registrar of Voters opened 130 voting help facilities on Saturday. Registered voters can drop off their mail-in ballots or select to vote in individual, and county election employees are asking voters to be affected person at these places.
The voter help facilities can be open from 9 a.m. to five p.m. Saturday by way of Monday and seven a.m. to eight p.m. on Tuesday, Election Day. Voters can even solid their votes by returning their vote-by-mail poll at one of many voter help facilities, an official drop off field or by way of the mail.
Ballots post-marked on or earlier than Nov. three and acquired by the Registrar of Voters by Nov. 20, can be counted.
