Early voting problems in at least 2 Indiana counties

Officials from two Indiana counties say early problems with electronic voting machines had been fixed Tuesday, as residents cast ballots to decide three of the nation's most closely watched congressional races and to see what party controls the Indiana House.

Indiana's voter ID law received its first test in a general election, but that was not what was causing the problems, clerks in two counties said.

In Delaware County, an apparent computer error prevented voters from casting ballots in 75 precincts, County Clerk Karen Wenger said. A court order extended voting to 8:40 p.m. local time, 2 hours and 40 minutes past the scheduled 6 p.m. close.

Blue start cards that activate the push-button machines for voters were programmed incorrectly by MicroVote General Corp., the company that installed software in 47 Indiana counties, Wenger said. By 11 a.m. the problems in all 75 precincts, affecting 225 machines in the east-central Indiana county, had been fixed, the clerk's office said.

"We haven't done anything wrong here. The poll workers haven't done anything wrong," she said.