Election day voting problems: North Carolina Board of Elections extends voting hours by 90 minutes

Activists have asked that voting be extended by 90 minutes

A group has asked that voting hours be extended (AP)

North Carolina’s Board of Elections voted on Tuesday to extend voting in Durham County in eight precincts by 90-minutes. The decision comes after technical issues were reported earlier in the day.

Durham County’s Board of Elections previously requested the extension and will receive 20 to 60 minutes for residents to cast their ballot. The county is majority Democrat and has a large minority population, according to CNN.

The unanimous recommendation was sent to the state Board of Elections at 1:30pm came after a glitch in the electronic voter check-in system required a switch to paper roll books.

"As a result of these events, voting in Durham County was interrupted at multiple sites for at least one hour," Democracy North Carolina said in a statement.

By state rules, all voting locations in the county have to be affected for an extension of voting hours.

The county has brought in 60 additional staff to work on providing more data to the state on how much the voting has been affected.