Georgia voting machines broken. Georgia primary voters endured long lines and broken machines during the states primary on tuesday prompting concerns about voter suppression as polling centers grappled with new. Georgia likely to plow ahead with buying insecure voting machines. Georgia voters outraged as long lines and broken machines make a mess of states primaries aschia perry 39 told the americano that she waited almost three hours in cobb county to cast her ballot.
After serving in the military for more than 20 years where she often voted absentee perry a black woman was eager to cast her ballot in person. Georgias primary elections quickly descended into chaos with voting machine problems a lack of paper ballots and hours long lines at polling places grace panetta 2020 06 09t170238z. What we see in georgia today from significant issues with voting machines to breakdowns in the delivery of ballots to voters who requested to vote absentee are a threat to those values and are.
Georgias voting fiasco stemmed primarily from the 30000 new voting machines the state bought last year for 107 million from dominion voting systems which is based in denver. Until this year the state used voting machines called the diebold accuvote dre which ran on software. Georgia voting machines are running windows 2000.
Georgias problems arise in part out of a botched effort to shore up its election security. Who people in georgia should vote for. Tuesday also marked the first time georgia was using new voting equipment.
Georgia primary blighted by long lines and broken voting machines this article is more than 2 months old. Georgia primary blighted by long lines and broken voting machines read more on tuesday as the minutes of waiting turned into hours the line she waited in took shape.