Posted on 06/10/2020 4:56:49 PM PDT by spintreebob
The first test of Georgia’s new $104 million system of voting machines ran into problems all day Tuesday, with polling places reporting difficulties setting up equipment, touchscreens malfunctioning and supplies of provisional paper ballots running low, causing some voters to wait three hours or longer to cast their ballots on a hot day in the middle of a pandemic.
The bulk of the issues, according to local reports, appeared at polling sites around the Atlanta metropolitan area shortly after voting commenced at 7 a.m.
Georgia’s primary is the first time the state’s voters are using a fleet of new machines that use a combination of digital and paper-based technology to cast ballots. The new devices, sold by Dominion Voting Systems — known as ballot-marking devices, or BMDs — were chosen last year to replace the state’s aging stockpile of entirely paperless machines, which election-security experts criticized as impossible to audit and potentially vulnerable to tampering. On the new machines, voters make their selections on a touchscreen interface, and paper ballots are printed to be counted in an optical scanner.
But according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, poll workers at multiple locations reported difficulties installing the touchscreens and setting up the electronic poll books used to check voters in, leading to complaints from frustrated voters who couldn’t cast ballots until the poll books were functioning. Meanwhile, several polling places also reported running out of provisional ballots after some voters requested them as an alternative to the malfunctioning machines.
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Why does a Republican run state believe it was all that important to go with a new voting system.
The paper ballots we use in my Florida county seem to scan quite well and we also end up with a paper trail.
According to the news last night, Georgia had 3 months to prepare for this election. And they still didn’t get it right.
But was that part of the plan? So it could be claimed a case of ‘systemic voter suppression’ as a black voter outside the polling place put forth.
Fortunately for Georgia, Shadow Governor Stacey Abrams can tell them what the correct outcome should have been.
Everything was working fine at our polling place in Lilburn.
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