Arizona judge rejects ask to keep polls open later amid voting machine failures

A judge in Arizona's largest county rejected the Republican Party's request to extend the voting hours from 7 pm to 10 pm after at least 20 percent of the jurisdiction's voting machines were found to be malfunctional.

As residents of Maricopa County – which was previously at the epoch of alleged election fraud in 2020 – lined up to cast their ballots in Tuesday's midterm election, many were met with poll workers telling them that the machines were down, and their votes will be recorded somewhere else.