Turnout Soared In Georgia Despite Problems

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Turnout Soared In Georgia Despite Problems

June 12, 2020 at 4:55 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

https://politicalwire.com/2020/06/12/turnout-soared-in-georgia-despite-problems/

"SNIP.....

“Despite massive problems at the voting booth, Democratic turnout in Georgia’s primaries skyrocketed — with three times as many votes cast in the Senate primary as in 2016,” NBC News reports.

Said political scientist Alan Abramowitz: “The bottom line is that, despite all of the problems at the polls on Tuesday, it appears that there was a big increase in turnout over 2018, especially on the Democratic side,”

Associated Press: Georgia poll worker describes “overwhelming” chaos.

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[brush]

1. Huge turnout despite obvious repug efforts to suppress the vote.

Doesn't bode well for trump and repug hold on the Senate in November.

Woohoo!

[donkeypoofed]

2. Oh !! The GOP knows they're in trouble now !!

All that cheating Kemp did and all to no avail. The Repukes in GA and indeed all over, must be, to quote Susan Collins, very concerned.

[beachbumbob]

3. GOP hearing the footsteps, imagine if we are ready for all their tricks on Nov3d?

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Maybe turnout is soaring because people are sick and tired of the nonsense, of the constant crap ...

being pulled by rump and complacent republicans to stifle our votes, to silence our voices. Good to hear this great news.

[ace3csusm]

5. with this outcome watch out for voters being turned away...

Was reading that those who vote in person must agree to a temp check...if they fail it or refuse to take it they won't be allowed to vote...

[Hoyt]

6. Good point. All the more reason to vote by mail or early.

[ace3csusm]

7. Isnt this the catch 20, i was hearing that even Stacy Abrams asked for mail-In

ballot, and she did not receive it...

[Hoyt]

8. That's the county's fault, and the two largest counties are run by Democrats.

They need to do better than that to make sure every vote counts in November.

[ace3csusm]

9. Thanks for info, im in CA and i have never seen lines like that, like never....

usually takes me 2-4 min wait ...

[Hoyt]

10. The commissioner of Dekalb county, a very good Democrat, said a

lot of poll workers didn’t show up Tuesday. First, who backs out of something that important the day of the election? Second, the county should have been checking every week to make sure people were planning to show up to work.

We have to do better in November. I bet Atlanta makes up almost half of Democratic voters in the state. We need every vote.

[scarletwoman]

12. I don't know how it works in Georgia, but in Minnesota, the number of poll workers per precinct

need to be evenly matched from each party.

I suppose if any Republican poll workers wanted to mess with the election, those could be the ones to not show up.

[Hoyt]

15. That's probably a good idea. I think Georgia just requires poll workers

to keep quiet about their political preferences when working.

My late wife volunteered as a poll worker for years. The county was just so glad to get people who would volunteer. It’s not easy work. Her last election was Obama 2008, she left before 6am and it was after midnight before they got through there were so many voters.

I’m hoping the counties will be ready in November, and voters help reduce the pressure by voting early and by mail.

[BadGimp]

11. And the Lesson is...

The only sure way to beat Republican Vote Rigging is to simply overwhelm them at the Polls on each and every election day.

[BlueLucy]

13. Trump had more votes than Biden in Georgia by alot

The Repuke rigging is working

[relayerbob]

14. We are trying to turn Georgia blue ...

We have two Senate races, and it seems unlikely that there would be a lot of ticket splitting ... voting for both Perdue and Biden would take even higher cognitive dissonance than usual.