Long lines and problems with voting equipment left Georgia with its second election day embarrassment since 2018. Now the state is scrambling to fix the problems before the high-stakes November general election.
Kelsey Luker reads as she waits in line to vote, Tuesday, June 9, 2020, in Atlanta. Luker said she had been in line for almost two hours.
Like two years ago, activists say voting problems seemed to disproportionately affect areas with large numbers of minority voters in cities such as Atlanta and Savannah. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, blamed local election officials. He said he plans to ask lawmakers to give state officials greater oversight of county election offices, including “authority to directly intervene and require management changes.”
Georgia was in the midst of an ambitious statewide effort to replace outdated voting equipment when the coronavirus hit in March. On Election Day, poll workers who had not put their hands on the new machines in months got confused, Barron said, and their calls overloaded the county election office. There were instances of scanners powering down or jamming, he said, and in some places too many voting machines were plugged into the same circuit, causing them to flicker.
State election officials said a few polling places in metro Atlanta’s Gwinnett County opened late because officials didn’t realize the new machines were bigger than the old ones and delivery trucks had to make extra trips. In Fulton County, some workers couldn’t get machines to work because they were inserting voter cards upside-down.
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