Malfunctioning ballot printers disrupted the start of early voting at roughly 10 Collin County polling places Monday morning, and some voters told NBC 5 they gave up and left.
The county's election commissioner confirmed to the station that printers failed at some early voting locations on the first day of voting for the Nov. 3 election. The problem was not countywide, and service had been restored, NBC 5 reported.
Viewers said some people who showed up were turned away. The station said it received reports of trouble at Liberty Recreation Center on Glencliff Drive. When an NBC 5 reporter went there at 9:30 a.m., voters were moving into the building, and Haggard Library on Coit Road was also open and running, the station said.
The station said the length of the disruption, and the number of voters who missed their chance, remained unclear. Its report did not list the other affected sites.
Lines later in the morning
The county posts estimated waits for each site on its online polling-location map. At about 11:40 a.m., the map's data showed these figures for Plano's eight early voting sites:
- Haggard Library, 2501 Coit Road: 60 minutes
- Davis Library, Harrington Library and Liberty Recreation Center: 30 minutes each
- Tom Muehlenbeck Recreation Center, Carpenter Park Recreation Center, Parr Library and the Collin College Plano Campus: no wait
