Low turnout reported, but Charlie Crist just filed an emergency motion to extend voting hours in Broward Co.; Update: Judge denies

Here’s the latest out of Florida, via Amy Hollyfield of the Tampa Bay Times:

The Crist for Governor campaign is filing an emergency motion to extend voting hours in Broward County from 7pm to 9pm.

— Amy Hollyfield (@amy_hollyfield) November 4, 2014

Campaign cites several factors including delays in voting, etc.

— Amy Hollyfield (@amy_hollyfield) November 4, 2014

Crist campaign says: A similar request was made to the Broward County Supervisor of Elections, who denied it.

— Amy Hollyfield (@amy_hollyfield) November 4, 2014

Here is the motion to extend polling hours in Broward County: http://t.co/v1bnmrWwMW

— Alex Leary (@learyreports) November 4, 2014

But why is Crist doing this? Contrary to what his campaign is telling reporters, turnout is low:

Bal Harbour candidate collapses outside polling place; turnout in Broward low so far http://t.co/l0PFKse5bQ

— Joey Flechas ? (@joeflech) November 4, 2014

And there are reports that turnout in Miami Dade County, which is directly to the south of Broward County, is lower than expected as well:

Great for Scott; bad for Crist pt. 2: Another way of looking at Broward turnout: it's 35% as of 315 p.m.. In GOP rich Collier, it was 55%

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) November 4, 2014

South Florida's light voting great for Scott, bad for Crist. But indies might save the Dem http://t.co/WNrKJuOUKW

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) November 4, 2014

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So a minute before I posted this blog about light South Florida turnout, Crist filed emergency to keep Broward open longer. Ummm?

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) November 4, 2014

“Ummm?” indeed.

Update:

A judge has rejected Charlie Crist's bid to extend voting hours in Broward County: http://t.co/NuxnwBIL4w

— Slate (@Slate) November 5, 2014

Judge denies Crist motion to extend voting hours in major Dem county http://t.co/wGNGTx7t8f #Election2014

— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) November 5, 2014

Editor’s note: A typo in the headline has been corrected.

Editor’s note 2: This post has been updated with additional tweets.