I live about 40 miles from the areas that were still voting up to the wee hours of the morning.
The info we got was that it was because of two factors: not enough voting booths available, . . . and an absolute HUGE and unprecedented turnout of college folks, grammaws, cooks, . . . everyone!!! No one even thought in their wildest nightmare that there would be that many folks.
We did get the vote out here though, . . . I got in line at 20 after 6 and was number 8 to vote. There was a line of 30 or so before 6:30 got there. Never have seen it like that before.
May God bless, (and bless George W. Bush while He is at it)
Dwight