Georgia's election chaos is a 'cautionary tale' for the Trump-Biden race

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WASHINGTON — Jessica King had been trying to vote in the Georgia primary all weekend. She went to her polling place on Friday to vote early but was unable to wait out the long line. She wanted to cast a ballot by mail but never received an application.

“A lot of people reached out to me and said they sent their absentee applications back but they never received their ballots,” said King, 27, a human rights advocate based in Albany, Ga.

King ultimately voted in person on Tuesday after showing up just as polls opened at 7 a.m. and waiting for a half hour. Others were less lucky, stranded in lines for more than four hours as voting continued late into the night and voting machines failed. More problems were reported in the heavily black Atlanta metropolitan area than in largely white parts of the state.

What happened Tuesday in Georgia is a warning sign for states as a nation on edge gears up for a consequential election during a pandemic. A combination of cash-strapped state budgets and dramatic changes expected in voting behavior have fueled concerns among advocates about whether the ballot box will be safe and accessible to all Americans.

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I'm sure it was deliberate.

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1. KR

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2. If it was deliberate, it means that it was the local elections board in each of

Cobb, Dekalb, and Fulton counties.

The absentee ballot requests when to those elections boards. The election equipment was set up and programmed by them. The training was scheduled and the staffing arranged by them.

At best, you can say that the distribution of voting machines to each BOE depended on Kemp. But he and his had no say in where, exactly, a given machine was sent, or how many went to a precinct.

Most of the authority stops with them. That's how it's been in every state I've lived in, that's what the local news reporting from there says is true, as well.