Kentucky and New York voters head to the polls in primaries reshaped by the coronavirus pandemic
After a crowd had amassed outside the Kentucky Exposition Center, a judge extended voting hours by 30 minutes, allowing more than 100 people who were waiting outside the building to vote. The doors were then closed again."We did unlock the doors and we let everybody in and had them go vote," Jefferson County election spokesman Nore Ghibaudy told CNN.
It wasn't until the final moments before the polls closed when more people arrived to vote and the doors were locked, according to state law. People banged on the glass doors, demanding to be let in.They waited outside and were allowed in after the judge issued a ruling to open the doors until 6:30 p.m. ET, allowing anyone in who was on the sidewalk and the landing just outside the bank of doors.
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