Late-opening precincts a big problem

A follow-up to our earlier post about Durham County, North Carolina, and their enlightened decision to extend poll hours at a precinct where 100 voters where waiting this morning at a locked church. Election Central at TPM Cafe is reporting that most precincts that experienced such delays WON'T be extending their hours:

Voters in Illinois' Kane County will have until 9:30 PM local time to vote, according to Chicago's CBS-2 News. That gives voters an extra half-hour. Indiana's Delaware County also extended its voting hours, until 8:40 local time.

Officials in Cook County, Ill., Colorado, Florida, Utah and Pennsylvania have been asked to grant extra time for voters to go to the polls, according to the non-partisan Election Protection pollwatching coalition. So far, none has agreed to do so.

As we said, late-opening precincts are one of those small "glitches" which can result in lots of discouraged -- disenfranchised, really -- voters.