Thread by @kegill

I have no words.
Trump has scared these people into voting in person - when you can vote in Georgia by absentee with no excuse.

This is #voterSuppression but it's not the total story.

GA CHANGED THE BASE CODE ON ITS VOTING MACHINES LAST WEEK. DESPITE A COURT CHALLENGE.

https://twitter.com/clairecmc/status/1315691917817139206

GA has a brand new touchscreen voting system that malfunctioned in testing.

"the update was distributed to county election officials last week with instructions to install it on their machines."

EVERY ONE NEEDS TO VOTE ON PAPER.

washingtonpost.com/national/with-…

Voting machines BARELY delivered in time for primary, which was delayed due to COVID-19.

The GA Sec of State's office has a piss-poor record: their data center destroyed two hard drives with 2016 records WHILE THE ELECTION WAS BEING CHALLENGED IN COURT.
apnews.com/article/877ee1…

07 OCTOBER 2020:
"a federal judge was still considering a request by voting integrity activists to sideline the new touchscreen voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots for the November general election."

I understand the desire to vote early on an electronic voting machine so that your vote is tallied on election night.

In states that historically vote by mail, if you cast your paper ballot early it will be tallied on election night.

And the GA elections board is not friendly. Last month, they ruled that "votes marked as check marks or X’s outside ovals won’t necessarily be recorded." TO HELL WITH VOTER INTENT.

So vote on paper but make no mistakes.
ajc.com/politics/new-a…

In WA, we inspect ballots and make sure they are scannable. If not, and voter intent is clear, we duplicate the ballot.

THREE OF THESE BALLOTS WOULD NOT BE COUNTED IN GEORGIA. #GOPvoterSuppression

sos.wa.gov/_assets/electi…

There is very little that lets me believe true voter intent will be the end result of ballot tabulation in Georgia this fall.

Not just Georgia - the entire former confederacy.

Dammit.

Another insane scene from Georgia today:

https://twitter.com/natemook/status/1315812578669584384

On one hand, kudos to these Georgians who are so committed to voting that they showed up on the first day of early voting. Shame on Georgia's leadership for making them wait 12 hours. Shades of VA on its first day of early voting.

Praying that the voting machines work.

Dear voters (of all states)> ASK FOR PAPER WHEN THE MACHINES GLITCH.

THIS IS WRONG:
"Poll workers and tech support staff held up lines to fix the check-in tablets rather than issue emergency paper ballots, which are required to be available at every voting location." @ajc

O.M.G.

"Poll workers corrected the problem by rebooting the arena’s 60 voter check-in tablets and reimporting voter information, Fulton County Elections Director Richard Barron said."

ajc.com/politics/polls…

ONE good ruling from Judge Totenberg's decision to let the state go forward with its questionable voting system:

"She directed election officials to find a way to review ballot images to ensure that voting scanner software isn’t overlooking votes."
ajc.com/politics/georg…

It's a shame she couldn't do the same for Georgia's discriminatory process for counting absentee ballots marked with check marks or x's rather than filled-in-ovals (above in thread).

Talk about last-minute idiocy.

Friday, the US Election Assistance Commission approved Georgia's petition to update voting machine software before balloting began today. Georgia's SOS had directed counties to do the upgrade last week. Not on website eac.gov/news

EAC Commissioners (two from each party)
eac.gov/about_the_eac/…