The Bernie Sanders campaign is suing to keep polling places in LA County open past 8pm as wait times of up to four hours and voting machine problems threaten a victory that exit polls place within tantalizing reach.
The campaign filed an emergency injunction to keep polls open an additional two hours on Super Tuesday in LA County, where the rollout of a new voting system has – unsurprisingly, perhaps – gone less than smoothly. The new system shuttered thousands of neighborhood polling places in favor of larger regional centers, leaving voters with little choice but to wait in line for up to four hours.
While reports on social media are urging voters to stay in line, claiming anyone who lines up before polls close will be permitted to vote, some have reportedly gotten discouraged and gone home. The Sanders campaign is hoping to pull off a victory that seems within reach, based on exit polls and a survey of absentee voters conducted by Edison Research.
