Georgia voting problems 2016. When the department of homeland security notified 21 states in 2017 that they had been targeted by russian hackers intent on interfering with the 2016 us. Georgia has 16 electoral votes and is expected to vote for trump though the result could be closer than in recent elections. Despite massive problems at the voting booth democratic turnout in georgias primaries skyrocketed with three times as many votes cast in the senate primary as in 2016.
Georgia voters chose electors to represent them in the electoral college via a popular vote pitting republican party nominee donald trump against democratic party nominee hillary clinton. Use of mail in ballots more than doubled from 249 million in 2004 to 572 million in 2016 and around 40 of us. Mitt romney won georgia in 2012 by 78 percentage points.
A federal lawsuit has accused georgia secretary of state brian kemp of illegally bumping georgia voters off the states rolls ahead of the 2016 presidential election. The problems in georgia are hardly unique with the supreme courts 2013 decision to strike down the part of voting rights act that subjected states with histories of discrimination to. The 2016 united states presidential election in georgia was held on november 8 2016 as part of the 2016 general election in which all 50 states plus the district of columbia participated.
Presidential election georgiadespite. With 91 percent of the. Voting rights groups called problems with georgias voting tuesday a complete catastrophe that is ominous for november after advocates.
Election assistance commission of the more than 140 million votes cast in the 2016 general election 237 percent were via mailof the roughly 332 million mail ballots that.