Fatal tornadoes knocked out ballot locations in Tennessee while fears over the coronavirus left some polling locations in California and Texas except election employees as Super Tuesday voting was in progress around the nation.
Scattered reports of polling locations opening late, makers malfunctioning or citizen rolls being down momentarily marred ballot in a few of the 14 specifies ballot Tuesday, but there were no reports of voters being not able to cast a ballot or security breaches.
Simply hours before surveys were set to open in Tennessee, tornadoes tore through parts of the state, destroying a minimum of 140 structures and eliminating at least22 With more than a lots ballot websites in Nashville’s Davidson County damaged, voters were sent to other places, where a few of them came across long lines. Ballot rights groups prompted state officials to extend ballot hours.
Voting left to a sluggish start in Travis County, Texas, because lots of election employees did not show up, with some citing fears of contracting the coronavirus, according to the county clerk’s workplace. The election workplace says it started carrying out emergency procedures, with elections personnel and other workers filling out as poll workers.
Another county, in California, resolved concerns over the coronavirus by sending bottles of hand sanitizer to ballot locations and asking poll employees to publish fliers from the general public health department on how to avoid spreading the virus.
Jesse Salinas, the primary elections authorities in Yolo County, simply west of Sacramento, said about 10%of poll employees backed out at the last minute, and he pointed to concerns about getting the virus. He said that has to do with double what is regular for an election, and sen