Technical problems prevented the electronic scanning of ballots in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, necessitating an extension of voting hours on Election Day 2024.

Voters in one Pennsylvania county will have an extra two hours to vote Tuesday after ballot-scanning machines in some precincts failed to work. Voting in Cambria County is extended to 10 p.m., according to a petition for emergency relief filed in the Court of Common Pleas in Cambria County.

Early on Election Day, Cambria County officials ran into issues with the ballot counting software, causing long lines and potential voters to leave.

On Tuesday morning, social media users began complaining of issues with voting machines in Cambria, Pennsylvania. One user on X, Shawn Sikora, wrote, “Cambria county Pennsylvania, voting machines are not scanning and we are being told to drop them in a lock box and they will scan them later. What the hell is going on.”

Voters who get in line after 8 p.m. in Cambria County will fill out a provisional ballot, according to the Department of State. Other counties can still start reporting unofficial results once the polls close at 8 p.m.

On November 5, 2024, in Laflin, Pennsylvania, USA, @Roman8643273333 shared a video highlighting a voting issue where a woman was unable to cast her ballot due to problems with the voting machines. The caption noted,

Voter machine mishaps, we see them happen every election. Tuesday, voters in Priceville left the polls concerned after both voting machines at the Priceville Event Center were jammed within the first hour.

Polling places in Cambria County - near Pittsburgh - will have extended hours after voting machines were unable to scan completed ballots on Election Day.