Story highlights A line of full of cars and voters is still waiting to get into a polling place in Merrimack, New Hampshire

Police cruisers have marked the end of the line of vehicles waiting to get into Merrimack High School

Merrimack, New Hampshire (CNN) Even after the voting was supposed to be finished in New Hampshire on Tuesday night, a line of full of cars and voters were still waiting to get into a polling place in Merrimack.

Town Moderator Lynn Christensen, who has overseen elections in Merrimack for 27 years, called it "a major fiasco," blaming the bottleneck on a decision to create one-way traffic in the direction of the Merrimack High School polls.

"That road just cannot handle the volume of people coming in at once," she told CNN. "I believe (the plan) came from the police department. They felt that this was a reasonable way to do it and it sounded good. It just didn't work."

Despite those panicky moments, Christensen said nobody who arrived at the polling place was kept from voting, and she did not hear of police turning away voters.

The polls ended up staying open a little more than an hour past their planned 7 p.m. ET closing time.

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