“In Georgia, primary day starts with long lines, broken machines — a potential preview of November”

WaPo:

Lines snaked out the doors, some polling locations didn’t open on time, and others had no working voting machines in at least four counties in the first hour of voting in Georgia’s primary elections Tuesday, a potential preview of how new voting procedures brought on by the coronavirus pandemic could affect the presidential election in November.

“This seems to be happening throughout Atlanta and perhaps throughout the county. People have been in line since before 7:00 am this morning,” Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms tweeted barely 30 minutes after polls opened Tuesday.

She added: “If you are in line, PLEASE do not allow your vote to be suppressed. PLEASE stay in line. They should offer you a provisional ballot if the machines are not working.”

Voters reported arriving before polls opened and standing in line for more than an hour, with election officials processing ballots painfully slowly because machines were not working.

Check out this thread from Greg Bluestein:

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