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Jan 8, 2008 4:00 pm US/Eastern
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Some Polling Places Running Out Of Ballots In N.H.
BOSTON (CBS) ―
Record voter turn out for the New Hampshire primary is having an unexpected and bad consequence: some polling places are running out of ballots.
New Hampshire Secretary of State William M. Gardner told CBS station WBZ-TV in Boston some polling places are running low on ballots, however he could not say which sites exactly.
The Secretary of State's office was working on figuring out what locations were running low and got to work creating more ballots.
According to a spokesperson for the Secretary of State's office, extra ballots are being driven to polling places. If locations run low on ballots before supplies are replenished, town and city clerks are allowed to make a copy of the ballots for voters to use.
Some polling places across the state don't close until 8 p.m. local time Tuesday.
The combination of an exciting presidential race and unseasonably mild weather had officials expecting a record voter turn out of half a million people for the primary.
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