Georgia Havoc Raises New Doubts on Pricey Voting Machines
Source: New York Times
Georgia Havoc Raises New Doubts on Pricey Voting Machines
By Nick Corasaniti and Stephanie Saul
June 11, 2020
Updated 7:34 p.m. ET
As Georgia elections officials prepared to roll out an over $100 million high-tech voting system last year, good-government groups, a federal judge and election-security experts warned of its perils. The new system, they argued, was too convoluted, too expensive, too big and was still insecure.
They said the state would regret purchasing the machines. On Tuesday, that admonition appeared prescient.
A cascade of problems caused block-long lines across Georgia, as primary voters stood for hours while poll workers waited for equipment to be delivered or struggled to activate the systems components. Locations ran out of provisional ballots. Many people, seeing no possible option to exercise their right to vote, simply left the lines.
With partisans on both sides hurling blame for the meltdown, elections experts said there were too many moving parts to place the onus for Georgias election chaos on any single one.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/politics/georgia-voting-machines.html
OneBro
(1,159 posts)For Republicans, $100 million taxpayer dollars to buy machines that will suppress votes in Democratic strongholds by failing as predicted is a MAGA bargain.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)the Secretary of State, and the State Election Board.
Election "experts" said there were too many moving parts to place the onus for Georgia's election chaos on any single one
Igel
(35,359 posts)the less it was problems "across Georgia" and the more the problems were described in terms of specific locations.
Most places had few to no problems.
Compare and contrast to start working on the actual problem and its solution, instead of just saying that since the problems existed, they existed everywhere, just to throw up one's hands and say the nay-sayers were right. QED.