Jen McDonald got to her polling location in downtown St. George at 8 a.m. Tuesday, and was informed “there was a glitch” in the voting machines — so she filled out a paper ballot. When Kate Davidson, McDonald’s sister-in-law, went to her polling place on St. George’s south side about 10:30 a.m., the news was worse: “They said, ‘We’re out of ballots and our machines aren’t working.’ ” Davidson, with her 3-year-old and 8-month-old in tow, was given three options: Wait around 20 minutes or longer for the machines to be fixed, go to another polling location where paper ballots were still available, or come back in the afternoon. She chose to come back later.
Election officials in Washington County said Tuesday that voting machines were back up and running after their memory cards were mistakenly wiped during programming.
Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox told The Associated Press that the problem was discovered when early voters in Washington County found irregularities in which races were programmed into their machines.
Cox said officials believe the problem may have cropped up with the county’s switch from local precinct voting to centralized polling centers.
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