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A state appeals
court judge ruled that the affected sites should stay open an
extra two hours to close at 9 p.m. local time, the St. Louis
County Election Board said in a statement on its website.
Janna Greenwalt, a worker for the board, said a minority of more
than 400 polling sites had been affected, but she was unable to
be more specific. However, St. Louis television station KTVI
reported that more than 50 polling sites had been affected.
Some of the voting sites had already closed when the judge's
order was handed down, county election officials said, and
voters were invited to cast their ballots at the board's
headquarters.
The municipal election in St. Louis County featured races for
city council and school board seats in numerous jurisdictions.
Those included Ferguson, the city that saw heavy protests in
2014 over the shooting death of an unarmed black man by a white
police officer.
Voting in St. Louis city, which is separate from the county and
runs its own elections, went ahead without a hitch.
Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, a Democrat, said his
office would investigate the county's voting problems, St. Louis
television station KSDK reported.
(Reporting by Greg Bailey in St. Louis and Alex Dobuzinskis in
Los Angeles; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
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