From WALB News 10 in Georgia

Albany A glitch at one of the city's largest precincts throws the elections back into court Tuesday afternoon.

Polls normally close at seven p.m., but because of voting problems, the Westtown precinct will remain open an extra two hours. That's because 75 voters had trouble casting ballots at Westtown this morning.

Poll workers incorrectly encoded electronic voting cards. The resulting confusion led to an hour and a half delay, during which many of the aggravated voters left without casting ballots.

And there were also problems at six other precincts, enough of a disruption to prompt mayoral candidate Dr. Willie Adams to petition the court to give voters more time to cast ballots.

Judge Louis Sands ruled that Westtown precinct will remain open an additional two hours, until nine o'clock.

Poll workers were trained on the machines in October when the election was scheduled for November. But they haven't had any additional training since the election delay, and apparently some of them just forgot the proper procedure for encoding the voting cards.

At the West Town polling site, about 75 people were forced to make a decision this morning when they found out about the delays, wait around, or leave without voting. While a few of them waited around for an hour and a half to get to vote, most of them, 53 people, left without voting.

Dr. Will Campbell is one of about five voters who testified at the federal hearing today, saying everyone should have the right to vote, and today's problems "stole" that right.

About six other sites had problems, ranging from the machines not charging properly to the same encoder error, but the problems only slowed voting by less than 15 minutes so their hours weren't extended.

The Election Board has called in an investigator from the State Secretary of State's Office to review all complaints from the election.