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I’m at Annistown Elementary School in Snellville, GA, where hundreds of voters have waited 4.5 hours to vote today because electronic voting machines weren’t working
.@RepHankJohnson told me this issue is happening in at least 4 precincts in Snellville. He blamed Brian Kemp and called it a “last gasp” effort by Republicans to suppress voters of color
One African American voter told @joshua_eaton she arrived here at 7 am and didn’t vote until almost noon. Her husband left the line because he had to go to work
The Democratic Party is having a press conference at the Snellville, GA polling place. @RepHankJohnson and others will discuss this voter suppression. Will live stream in a few
.@RepHankJohnson, who represents Snellville, urges Georgia voters not to turn down provisional ballots. Voters have 3 days to rectify issues so their provisional ballot will count.

“A provisional ballot is much better than no ballot at all.”
Democratic Party officials here say they hear Gwinnett County will keep the polls open at least 20 more minutes because of these issues. I also hear litigation has been filed to extend hours even longer
A reminder that voting advocates have pushed Brian Kemp and his office to provide a paper back-up for its electronic voting machines. Kemp has refused thinkprogress.org/georgia-electi…
“No one will ever know whether the results to come out of the midterm elections in Georgia are actually what the voters intended,” David Cross, an attorney representing the plaintiffs in a lawsuit over the paperless ballot system, told me in September thinkprogress.org/georgia-electi…
The issue with the electronic voting machines in Gwinnett County (a majority minority county in Georgia) was resolved before noon. But long lines persist. Full story coming!
BREAKING: Broken voting machines cause 4-hour lines outside Atlanta thinkprogress.org/four-hour-line…
Voting at this Snellville location has been extended at least 25 more minutes. People here say they fear the line will get long again during the evening rush hour
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.@staceyabrams campaign holding a press call now. “We know our opponent has had the secretary of state’s office declare he is the winner. We are here to say we don’t accept that.”
Only 23,800 votes would push the race into recount territory. There are 22,000 outstanding provisional ballots and 3,000 outstanding mail ballots, campaign says
“There has been no data offered... no detail whatsoever” about the outstanding ballots, Abrams campaign says. Campaign manager says majority of roughly 25,000 outstanding ballots are in Democratic strongholds
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The line to vote at the Liberty Baptist Church in Atlanta is roughly 1.5 hours right now. I’m hearing reports that voters with student ID are being denied ballots, even though student IDs are valid forms of voter ID here in Georgia
First time voter Noelle Higgins, a freshman at Georgia State, was able to vote thanks to help from Election Protection volunteers. Poll workers initially told her she couldn’t vote with student ID
Another Georgia State freshman, Nicholas Perry, was incorrectly told he had to cast a provisional ballot. Perry is a first time voter and said he wasn’t aware that a provisional ballot would be automatically counted
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I’ll be traveling across Georgia for the next few days with the Black Voters Matter bus tour. They’re doing voter registration and outreach, trying to influence elections across the South. Follow here for updates!
After black voters mobilized to help @DougJones win a special election in Alabama last year, @BlackVotersMtr decided to use the same organizing tactics to turn out voters across the South thinkprogress.org/black-voters-a…
This week, they’ll be in Georgia, where the GOP gubernatorial candidate faces a lawsuit for blocking 53,000 voter registrations. Georgia is just over 30% black, but roughly 70% of the pending applications are for black voters thinkprogress.org/georgia-republ…
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1/ #TexasSenateRace 1.4% of votes flipped by machines could have made the difference.The Hart eSlate machines have a bug triggered by “voters hitting a button or using the selection wheel before the screen is finished rendering”. Explanations given by officials are insufficient.
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We'll be on the lookout all day for issues across the country related to voter suppression & voter access. There's already plenty of buzz about potential spread of misinformation, as well as issues falling in the category of unforeseen events, non-functioning machines, etc.
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There are 45 more days left until Midterm Elections.

If you have not verified your registration or actually registered to vote you must do that as soon as possible.
Registration deadlines for most states are fast approaching.

Please, verify / register.

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If you have recently moved make sure that both your ID and your registration are updated and current.

if you live in a red state, or a possible swing district, please check and recheck to be certain.

I checked my registration in April & it was fine, but in July it was not.

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There were far too many people in both the California & New York primaries who were either unable to vote or forced to cast a provisional ballot because of registration issues. Some of them were well known public figures.

I believe that it's going to be worse #November6th.

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Today is the day of the Georgia #paperballot hearing! “Federal court asked to scrap Georgia’s 27,000 electronic voting machines.” Hearing will last from 10:00-4:00 PM. Pls attend if u aren’t there already. @JohnnyIK is covering for @npr and @wabenews. 1/ npr.org/2018/09/12/646…
2/ Logistics via @PeachResist
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Let’s add a little context to the discussion of voting security in the US. To do that, I’m going to do something Computer Scientists are bad at - I’m going to talk about history. Specifically, let’s look at the Help America #Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002. 1/
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