Some polls have already closed in New Hampshire, but a line of full of cars and voters is still waiting to get into a polling place in Merrimack.
The New Hampshire secretary of state’s office said that police cruisers have marked the end of the line of vehicles waiting to get into Merrimack High School on Tuesday night.
“There’s some strategies that are being put into place to try and mark the end the line, in traffic, with police cruisers, so that those voters are snarled in traffic will be able to get into the polling place,” Deputy secretary of state David Scanlan told CNN.
“There’s still some discussions going on about the end of the day,” he added. “But I understand that they have placed police cruisers at the end of the line in traffic so that those voters who have been creeping their way to the polling place on the road will have an opportunity to vote.”
Anyone who pulls up behind the cruisers is out of luck, he said: “They’ve missed the closing of the polls.”
“They were pretty liberal about where they established the end of the line in traffic,” according to Scanlan, who also told CNN that the Bush campaign — and no others — had called his office to “just kind of monitor what was going on.”
Scanlan said the attorney general’s office is currently “in contact with the election officials in the polling place.”
The secretary of state’s office said that polling places can stay open up to an hour after polls close if voters are still in line.
Representative from the state Attorney General’s office were stuck in traffic but talking to the Merrimack officials.
