{"id":188595,"date":"2026-03-03T16:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/188595\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:31:11","slug":"check-in-problems-cause-delays-at-el-paso-voting-sites-officials-say-voting-machines-are-functioning-el-paso-voting-machines-working-properly-but-voter-check-in-issues-plague-voting-sites-el-paso-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/188595\/","title":{"rendered":"Check-in problems cause delays at El Paso voting sites; officials say voting machines are functioning El Paso voting machines working properly, but voter check-in issues plague voting sites- El Paso Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Paso voters are reporting problems as they showed up to the polls Tuesday morning, but election officials said votes can still be cast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe voting machines are operating correctly. Some locations are having issues with their poll pads (used to check in voters). Voters are still able to be processed. They need to check in manually at these locations and that is taking extra time. We are working with our vendor to get all of the poll pads operational as soon as possible,\u201d County Elections Administrator Lisa Wise said.<\/p>\n<p>Some voters said poll workers at some locations seemed unfamiliar with the manual check-in process.<\/p>\n<p>In social media posts, county election officials identified numerous affected polling sites.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Affected-polling-places.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111550\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Paso voters are reporting problems as they showed up to the polls Tuesday morning, but election officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,409],"class_list":["post-188595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}