Software problems prevented the electronic scanning of ballots in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, necessitating an extension of voting hours on Election Day 2024.

A deep-red county in Pennsylvania will be extending its voting deadline to 10:00 p.m. eastern following a software malfunction that prevented voters from scanning completed ballots. The county’s court of common pleas ordered that Cambria County’s voting deadline will be extended two hours after county solicitor Ronald Repak filed an emergency petition due to the voting issues Tuesday morning,

The court has approved a voting extension from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Cambria County.In the petition, which was approved around 11 a.m. after hours of v

Early on Election Day, Cambria County officials ran into issues with the ballot counting software, causing long lines and potential voters to leave.

Voters in one Pennsylvania county now have until 10 p.m. to cast their votes. The ruling was made by a Pennsylvania judge after a “malfunction” kept voters in Cambria County from scanning their ballots, Fox News reported. Voting in the battleground state is usually 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

On Tuesday morning, social media users began complaining of issues with voting machines in Cambria, Pennsylvania. One user on X, Shawn Sikora, wrote, “Cambria county Pennsylvania, voting machines are not scanning and we are being told to drop them in a lock box and they will scan them later. What the hell is going on.”

A county in the battleground state of Pennsylvania has extended voting hours after experiencing a software malfunction.

Polls in a key Pennsylvania county will be open for an additional two hours Tuesday following a malfunction with ballot scanners.

Poll issues reached across Cambria County Tuesday morning, prompting commissioners to file to keep polls open until 10 p.m. instead of the statewide 8 p.m. Just