Some Maryland residents found themselves slowed at the polls due to some Election Day workers who forgot a plastic card necessary to operate voting machinery, according to The Washington Post.
Polling places in both Baltimore and Montgomery counties were ordered to stay open an extra hour in order to compensate for the time lost, The Post reported. In some locations, such as Takoma Park, polling places were short of court-instructed paper ballots, forcing citizens to cast their votes on scraps of paper and campaign flyers.
"We regret what happened this morning. It was just a fluke," Nancy Dacek, president of the Board of Elections in Montgomery County, told The Post. "There was a glitch. It's now been taken care of"
