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I'm sure this wasn't be design. And there should be NO EXCUSE for machines being out of service prior to an election. What, was this a big surprise to everyone??
Why did some voting machines sit unused on busy Georgia Election Day?
By Mark Niesse - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted: 6:35 a.m. Thursday, November 08, 2018
Metro Atlanta voters stood in long lines Tuesday, amid a surge in turnout that made the midterm election resemble a presidential contest.
As they waited some for hours hundreds of voting machines sat unused, locked up in government warehouses, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned.
The machines were sequestered by local officials because of an ongoing federal lawsuit that argues Georgias electronic voting machines could be hacked or tampered with.
With fewer machines in precincts, voters faced heavy delays, often more than an hour, before they got to the front of the line. The issue affected voters in Cobb, DeKalb and Fulton counties, the three jurisdictions covered by the court case.
Election officials said Wednesday that the lack of voting machines combined with high turnout and wordy constitutional amendments created some of the longest lines in years. They said that by the time they realized turnout would significantly exceed the last midterm election, there wasnt time to find additional machines.
There were about 1,050 voting machines in Cobb precincts Tuesday while about 550 were sequestered. The county could have deployed a total of about 1,400 voting machines if they had been available, Eveler said.
Another 700 direct-recording electronic voting machines were out of service in Fulton, along with 585 in DeKalb.
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dchill
(38,484 posts)Oh well, then. Never mind! All taken care of.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)and there weren't any lines all day. It's a red precinct in DeKalb. The machines were made in 2003.
Guppy
(444 posts)Many don't work. We had six at mine and two arrived broken. This is ridiculous.
babylonsister
(171,061 posts)I guess they just didn't want to.
msongs
(67,405 posts)babylonsister
(171,061 posts)Guppy
(444 posts)when it is public, That is why our infrastructure is crumbling. They were even given money by the feds to do it. They are so dishonest. We had a douchebag trying to say we are going to cut regulations in GA. He was local. i wanted to ask him"Since you have controlled the state for 20 years what regulations need to be cut"
All those red assholes in our area lost and the the women won. We are trying to get the last one Rob Woodall.