BRAD BLOG: Long Lines in GA as Photo ID Laws/Diebold's Crashing E-Pollbook System Slow Process

[emlev]

Wait Times Up to Two and a Half or More in Metro Atlanta, While New E-Registration Computers Cause Delays
Officials Fall Back to Old Fashioned Paper Check-In, as Two and a Half Hour Delays Seen at 'Welcome All Park'...

Guest Blogged by Emily Levy of VelvetRevolution.us...

Problems with new Diebold electronic registration poll books and new Photo ID restrictions are causing voting delays up to two and a half hours at some polling places across Georgia and metropolitan Atlanta according to news reports, Election Integrity problem report hotlines, and state officials who The BRAD BLOG has spoken with throughout the day.

Diebold electronic voting machines are standing idle at many precincts, as voters wait in long lines while being forced to face sign-in verification procedures on the company's new, and once-again failing, e-pollbook system at locations across the state...

Today's primary is the first major test of Georgia's new Photo ID restriction at the polling place (O.C.G.A § 21-2-417), which mandates voters must show a government-issued photo identification card in order to be allowed to vote. Pollworkers use computers to check each voter's eligibility against the voter rolls as listed on their screens. These electronic polling systems are yet another step away from the transparent, accurate and verifiable elections our democracy requires, subjecting yet another part of the election system to the frailties of computer security and the electrical grid, among other problems. Until this election, Georgia pollworkers checked voters' registrations on paper printouts of the voting rolls.

According to a report today from NBC's 11Alive, which diminishes the importance of election security, transparency and accuracy by referring to the problems as "glitches" in its headline, "Poll workers at the had just two computer terminals --- one of which keeps crashing --- to check ids against their voter registration lists."

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[annabanana]

1. All this buggy equipment should immediately be thrown into the

nearest big body of water...

[emlev]

2. That would be called "Election Reef-Form"

[BrotherBuzz]

7. You bad...

:rofl:

[emlev]

8. Thank you...

I myself think that joke is hilarious and post it every time I get the chance (people often make that exact suggestion, oddly enough, throwing the machines into the ocean or other large body of water) and I think you're the first person who ever appreciated it. So thanks.

[emlev]

3. kick

[emlev]

6. kick

[beachmom]

4. What a contrast. I live in a very conservative district, and there

was no line, no wait. I did show my id, of course. One African American lady who came to vote was turned away -- apparently she was at the wrong precinct. I hope she had no trouble voting in her correct precinct.

[emlev]

5. The lines are one of few VISIBLE symptoms of the mess our election system is in...

The privatization of elections is epidemic and must be stopped!