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applegrove

(118,600 posts)
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 07:08 PM Nov 2020

Emergency Paper Ballots Deployed As Voting Machines Go Down In Parts Of Georgia

BY JASON EASLEY Politicus USA

Emergency Paper Ballots Deployed As Voting Machines Go Down In Parts Of Georgia

Voting machines are already reported as having gone down and emergency paper ballots have been deployed as record turnout is expected in Georgia.

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/11/03/georgia-voting-machines-down.html

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported:


Voting equipment wasn’t working at Morris Brandon Elementary in Buckhead, forcing voters to use emergency paper ballots instead. Ryan Barrows, a poll worker at the precinct, said the scanners are locked and election workers can’t get into the machines.

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Channel 2 Action News reports that all voting machines are down because of a glitch in Spalding County, 37 miles south of Atlanta. Spalding County election officials are sending 2,000 provisional ballots to each precinct so everyone can post a paper ballot.

In Spalding County, there is no plan to extend voting hours unless they are ordered to do by a court. These issues should not be happening, but they consistently occur in Georgia through a combination of dirty tricks by Republicans and bad technology.

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Response to regnaD kciN (Reply #1)

Statistical

(19,264 posts)
3. You know what never goes down ...
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 07:11 PM
Nov 2020

paper ballots. Voting machines are a solution in search of a problem.

Paper ballots for everyone, in person, election day, early, mail in, drop off. Send it all through optical scanners and you have all the paper ballots as a backup for a hand recount too.

LaMouffette

(2,022 posts)
6. "The devil went down to Georgia, and he was lookin' for an election to steal"
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 07:21 PM
Nov 2020

"He was in a bind,
cause he was way behind
and he was willing to make a deal."

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