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Voting lines stretched to three hours in Las Vegas on election day

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Voters in Southern Nevada waited in line for nearly three hours to cast their ballots after polls officially closed on Tuesday, as results were expected to trickle in much later than past election years.

Just before 9:50 p.m., 23 polling locations in Clark County still had people waiting to vote, according to Clark County spokesperson Stephanie Wheatley. That number dropped to 11 by 10:10 p.m.

Earlier in the evening, county spokesperson Jennifer Cooper said officials were attributing long lines to higher voter turnout numbers, a two-page ballot with many races and a new voting process for in-person voting.

This year, voters made their selections on an electronic voting machine that then printed out a paper ballot with the voter’s selections. Voters then had to feed that paper ballot through a tabulation machine to record their vote.

The Associated Press had not called any Nevada races as of the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s print deadline, several hours after polls closed at 7 p.m.…

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