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EXPLAINER: Despite the angst, voting problems not widespread

by Darlene Superville
| November 3, 2020 6:27 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — In Spalding County, Georgia, machine problems led to a two-hour extension for voting. Wait times stretched beyond an hour at four voting centers in Baltimore. And this, unique to 2020: Sanitizer on voters' hands caused a ballot scanner to jam at a polling place in Des Moines, Iowa.

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