Polls in Florida closed at 7 p.m., but the Charlie Crist campaign is pushing to keep precincts open in Broward County, which reported a few glitches Tuesday afternoon.
Crist’s campaign sent out a press release shortly before 7 p.m. announcing it had filed an emergency injunction to extend voting hours until 9 p.m. The campaign argued that extra time was needed to make up for “individual and systemic breakdowns,” including a polling station that went offline for more than 90 minutes and EVID voting machines.
“We have reports in many cases that voters who were confused about their proper polling location were provided conflicting information and, in many cases, simply gave up attempting to cast a regular ballot,” the campaign stated.
The Crist campaign says a similar request was made to the Broward County Supervisor of Elections, who denied it. But Supervisor Brenda Snipes said she was unaware of any such request.