Daily Docket — Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8

As of today, we’ve tracked 185 lawsuits filed in 2022 across 35 states. 108 of these lawsuits are currently active and ongoing. Now that we’re heading into the post-election period, we will continue to track post-election developments and litigation and provide daily updates.

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These polling locations extended their hours as of 6 p.m. EST:

In Georgia, a court granted a request filed by the Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration to keep two precinct locations open past the 7 p.m. EST deadline due to delays at the locations at the start of the day. In Gwinnett County, a court ordered the precinct 59 polling location, designated as Landmark Church at 3737 Holcomb Bridge Road in Norcross, to remain open until 7:08 p.m. EST.

In North Carolina, the North Carolina State Board of Elections extended polling hours to 8:30 p.m. EST at the Ransom precinct in Columbus County, Saratoga precinct in Wilson County and Gaddys precinct in Robeson County.

In Pennsylvania, a court ordered all polling places in Luzerne County to extend their closing times. Polling places in Luzerne County will now stay open until 10 p.m. EST.

In Texas, due to technical issues this morning, all polling places in Bell County extended their closing times until 8 p.m. CST.

In Virginia, a court ordered a polling place at Blackstone Primary School in Blackstone, Virginia to extend its closing time to 8:00 p.m EST due to technical difficulties earlier in the day. Due to technical difficulties this morning, voting at the East Suffolk Recreation Center was extended to 7:20 p.m. EST.

Stay tuned on Twitter for more updates on extended times at polling locations.

Here are some other updates from today:

During an emergency meeting this morning, Philadelphia’s three-member election board voted 2-1 to reinstate poll book reconciliation following pressure from a lawsuit sponsored by a right-wing conservative legal group. Poll book reconciliation is the process of amending voting records to denote if a voter has voted by mail; it is a time-consuming process that slows down the reporting of election results if it’s conducted before vote counting.

After the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would send monitors to observe voting in 24 states, officials in Florida and Missouri announced they would attempt to block monitors from entering polling locations.

Yesterday, a federal judge issued an emergency order prohibiting election officials at a polling site in Beaumont, Texas from engaging in behavior that the county’s Black voters found to be intimidating and discriminatory.

Also yesterday, the North Carolina State Board of Elections confirmed that it is currently investigating 16 reports of voter intimidation, harassment or interference.

Here’s what to expect in the coming days:

Election Day may be coming to a close in a few hours, but we’re not going anywhere. Stay tuned for post-election updates!

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