Approximately 20 of Luzerne County’s 186 polling places reported election morning issues with poll cards that workers must use to activate ballots on the electronic ballot marking devices, county Election Director Emily Cook said around 9 a.m. Tuesday.

Election workers also were sent to Dennison Township to address problems with a scanner/tabulator at the Dennison Township polling place because the matter could not be resolved through remote troubleshooting, Cook said.

Cook emphasized no voters were disenfranchised or unable to vote in these situations because the county provides emergency paper ballots as a backup to each polling place — enough to cover every registered voter. These emergency ballots are already on site at polling places, which means there is no need to wait for deliver

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