Election 2020 updates: Biden warns of 'dark winter,' pushes masks in pandemic plan

All 18 precincts in Spalding County, Georgia, will remain open for an extra two hours after the county experienced what it said was a "county wide technical issue" in the morning.

The precinct closing time has been extended to 9 p.m., per a court order issued by Superior Court Judge W. Fletcher Sams, according to a post by the Spalding County Board of Commissioners.

Jordan Fuchs, the deputy secretary of state, told ABC News that the extension will not delay results from the state.

Spadling County has a population of just over 66,000, according to the U.S. Census bureau, and is the 37th most populous in a state of 159 counties. It went for Trump in 2016.

Earlier this morning, polling locations across the county experienced a "technical issue" with its poll pads, which check voters in, and provisional ballots had to be delivered to every location, according to a statement from the county. 

In the afternoon, Gabriel Sterling, the implementations manager at the Georgia Secretary of State Office, said that eight of the 18 locations affected in Spalding had since been reset and were "fine." Regardless of whether the locations had been reset, "every location has voters voting right now," Sterling said.

"Voting continues, voting continued at the time, and we feel very comfortable and confident about where we are," Sterling said later.

Separately, hours have been extended at at least three other polling locations across the state. Two locations were extended in Dekalb County, and one in Cobb County. 

-ABC News' Olivia Rubin

The polls are closing in Georgia, Virginia, Vermont, South Carolina and Florida.

Among five issues listed as most important in making their vote for president, preliminary exit poll results have found about a third of voters said their top issue was the economy, in a year marked by a severe recession and record levels of unemployment due to the coronavirus pandemic.

After that, 21% said the most important issue was racial inequality, with 2020 seeing waves of protesters nationwide following the death of George Floyd in police custody. 

Another 18% put their top issue as the coronavirus pandemic itself. Crime/safety and health care policy rounded out the five issues, with 11% each.

In a measure of personal characteristics, 52% said Trump lacks the temperament it takes to serve effectively as president, while 45% said the same about Biden. Trump was deeper under water on this question in 2016, yet won the Electoral College nonetheless.

-ABC News' Polling Director Gary Langer

The U.S. Postal Service responded to a judge's order late Tuesday, noting that while it was not able to comply with the court-imposed deadline of 4:30 p.m., its inspectors would complete "sweeps" of mail facilities in the key battleground states by the times polls closed.

A Justice Department lawyer representing the mail agency explained that, due to other Election Day responsibilities and logistical concerns, the Postal Service was "unable to accelerate the daily review process" to comply with Judge Sullivan's order -- but that "the process remains ongoing." 

"(The Postal Service) is working as expeditiously as possible to comply with this court's orders while recognizing physical and operational limitations and the need to avoid disrupting key activities on Election Day," the DOJ lawyer wrote.

Shortly after the Postal Service response, the NAACP requested an emergency hearing, claiming that the Postal Service response "does not comply to the court's order."

-ABC News' Lucien Bruggeman