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Three Indiana state pension and construction funds filed emergency papers with the court early Sunday seeking to have the sale halted so they could pursue an appeal.

Two days before the trial's start date, the defendants, Protectmarrige.com and Campaign for California Families (the state declined to be represented in the trial) filed emergency papers for the supreme court to block broadcasting.

Poll workers hand out emergency paper ballots when the voting machines break down.

In northern Brooklyn some advocacy groups reported numerous complaints about broken machines and the absence of emergency paper ballots.

As a result, the board is printing 600 emergency paper ballots for each election district to be used in case of machine breakdowns.

While the Board of Elections dispatched teams of technicians around the city, voters who had already waited for hours had to wait even longer to fill out emergency paper ballots.

There were the extended Board of Elections office hours, the scan-able emergency paper ballots, the other reforms with fancy names like signature digitalization.

Daniel DeFrancesco, the executive director of the city's Board of Elections, acknowledged that at times yesterday, some polling stations had neither working machines nor emergency paper ballots.

As a result, 20,717 voters had to use emergency paper ballots, leading to lines so long that some voters gave up.

On Wednesday, a federal judge ordered election officials in Pennsylvania to make emergency paper ballots available to voters when 50percentt or more of voting machines at a polling location fail.

Besides the machine breakdowns last year, there were shortages of emergency paper ballots, arguments over voter lists and a vote count in a State Senate race that dragged on for six weeks.