{"id":189701,"date":"2026-03-04T07:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/189701\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T07:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:35:19","slug":"judge-orders-el-paso-county-voting-sites-to-stay-open-an-extra-hour-until-8-p-m-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/189701\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders El Paso County voting sites to stay open an extra hour until 8 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Voters in El Paso County will have an extra hour to cast their ballots after a judge ordered polling places to stay open later than scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>The 383rd District Court granted a temporary injunction extending voting hours at all voting sites across El Paso County by one hour. Under the court\u2019s order, all voting sites will remain open until 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling sets different procedures depending on when voters arrive. <\/p>\n<p>Voters who were already in line before 7 p.m. will be permitted to cast thSign up to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.ir ballots in the normal manner. <\/p>\n<p>Voters who were not in line before 7 p.m. will be allowed to cast a provisional ballot until 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the extended hours for voting, county election officials encouraged all eligible voters to go to their voting site ahead of 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after there were issues on Tuesday morning with the voting check-in pads. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/newsletter-daily\/el-paso-county-says-voting-machines-working-as-some-poll-pads-fail-on-election-day?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Election Day: El Paso County says voting check-in pad issues resolved <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Voters in El Paso County will have an extra hour to cast their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-189701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189701","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=189701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}