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Lines like this one at the polling place in Papago Park in Phoenix wrapped on for hours during the 2016 Presidential Preference Election.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has settled a portion of a lawsuit with Arizona alleging voter disenfranchisement after the state’s Presidential Preference Election was plagued with long lines at polling places.

However, several issues still remain to be resolved before the November 8 general election. In preparation for Arizona’s Presidential Preference Election in March, the Maricopa County Recorder’s office reduced the number of polling places from 200 down to 60. The change left scores of voters standing in line to vote past midnight, long after the election had been called.

As a result, the DNC and several other parties sued the secretary of state.

The recorder’s office has since increased the number of polling places, satisfying the DNC, which settled part of the suit in U.S. District Court in Phoenix on Friday.

Spencer Scharff, voter protection director for the Arizona Democratic Party, called it a step in the right direction.

"But still our challenges to the law that criminalizes helping others vote and to discounting out of precinct ballots continue,” Scharff said.

A ruling on the remaining issues in the lawsuit could come sometime this week.