North Dakota’s Senate on Tuesday rejected a bill that would have limited a person’s voting time to 30 minutes. The provision in House Bill 1189 was inserted to prevent voters from sitting after the polls are closed and don’t cast their ballots, which delays the transmission of the results by hours, senators said. “Nobody should be able to sit for hours,” state Sen. Shawn Vedaa, a Republican who chairs the body’s Government and Veterans Affairs Committee, said before the vote. The bill would have also instituted a three-hour time limit for polling places to deliver election results to county courthouses. After critics said a 90-minute limit in the original version was too harsh, the limit was doubled. Vedaa said on the Senate floor: “We’re just asking that three hours be in there. It’s something for them to shoot for. If there’s an emergency or bad weather, it states right in …