Due to the delays at some Montgomery County polls this morning, a Circuit Court judge has issued an order that the stations will stay open until 9 p.m. tonight. As we noted earlier, some polls were missing the automated cards needed for the electronic voting machines, and only a short supply of provisional paper ballots were available.

Complaints continue to roll in from all over Maryland, with the Post reporting voters being turned away because no machines were functional, or even having their ballot rejected by the machine and unable to cast a provisional ballot. While electronic voting irregularities aren’t exactly shocking, the lack of preparation by the Maryland elections officers is downright appalling — Montgomery County even had to call on “electricians, plumbers, carpenters and other public works employees” to put their day jobs aside in order to bring paper ballots to the polling stations.

The Board of Elections announced that voters in line at a polling station by 8 p.m. will be able to use the electronic machines, while everyone arriving between 8 and 9 p.m. will be given paper provisional ballots. Now go, MoCo, enfranchise yourselves.