A combination of long lines and computer problems with new voting machines led to an all-night delay in Johnson County being able to release primary election results.
“I’m embarrassed for our county,” Johnson County election commissioner Ronnie Metsker said Wednesday morning. “Our county is not accustomed to having this kind of event. It’s embarrassing for our office, it’s embarrassing for me, for our team and for the vendor.”
Metsker said the engineers for the vendor had been working all night to try to identify the problem.
“We will dig into the bottom, get it corrected, resolve it and then make sure that it never happens again,” he said.
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