The Voting Was A Hot Mess
www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com Election day did not go as well as elections officials in Gwinnett County probably would have liked as voters hit the polls on Tuesday to cast ballots in the state\u2019s presidential preference and general primary elections only to find equipment issues at several precincts.
In what is the first major test of Georgia\u2019s new voting machines in Gwinnett, there were reports of voting precincts not having scanners to scan paper ballots, no printers to print the ballots, no paper to print the ballots on or no voting equipment at all when precincts opened Tuesday.
\u201cThere were several polling places that opened today at 7 a.m., but did not open with their equipment, or not all of their equipment set up and ready to go,\u201d county spokesman Joe Sorenson said. \u201cSo, those people who came to vote were offered \u2018emergency ballots.\u2019
\u201cEmergency ballots are a kind of provisional ballot (but) one of the biggest differences between an emergency ballot and a regular provisional ballot is those people (who cast the emergency ballot) don\u2019t have to do anything else. They cast their ballot as though they were casting another kind of ballot, like an advance by mail, so their ballot is done. There\u2019s nothing else they need to do. They voted. Their votes will be counted in with all the other votes.\u201d
Since the presidential preference primary was postponed, and folded into the general primary, because of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic, this is the first election day in Gwinnett where Georgia\u2019s new voting machines have been in use.
SOURCE: www.GwinnettDailyPost.com
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