'This is not just a Georgia problem': Primary election troubles foreshadow challenges for November

s have plunged into chaos in the age of coronavirus -- foreshadowing graver challenges awaiting in the fall.

Leading into Tuesday, Georgia's number two state election official, Jordan Fuchs, called the primary"a successful election" in an interview with ABC News, pointing to the"massive amount of turnout in the middle of a pandemic" after more than a million voters cast their ballots absentee -- marking a more than 2,500% increase in returned absentee ballots this year.

But delays are not new to counties with significant minority populations. Long wait times, according to, disproportionately impacted minorities across the country in the 2018 midterm elections, with black voters waiting on average 45% longer than white voters, and Latino voters 46% longer. Raffensperger, in turn, faulted local officials in only Fulton and DeKalb counties, saying there were few issues elsewhere in the state. But by the time polls closed at 7 p.m., 20 counties had extended polling hours to compensate for the delays throughout the day.

People wait in long line to vote in a presidential primary election outside the Riverside High School in Milwaukee, on April 7, 2020. Americans in Wisconsin casts ballots in a controversial presidential primary held despite a state-wide stay-at-home order and concern that the election could expose thousands of voters and poll workers to the coronavirus.Raffensperger announced late Tuesday that he is opening an investigation into the Fulton and DeKalb counties' election processes.

Well Democrats are incompetent what else is new. Just another failure as usual...dah

The state of Georgia has already defined what the problems were and spoken openly of the issue. ANY time a new procedure is rolled out for public use on a mass scale there are always problems. That is the nature of human society.

Your a communist

Maybe they should hire it out to Chick-fil-A instead of incompetent Democrats!!!!Who the hell do you think are running the polling booths in Black Neighborhoods?

sfpelosi Arrest the secretary of state and the governor.

3 weeks people could have voted. Democrat districts dropped the ball and want to blame the state. Evidently the democrats are involved in suppressing their own voters.

They will attempt anything to alter change Listen this kid CAREFULLY

Hi Madame Speaker! A Prelude Of Thinge's Yet To Come! Beste 'ForeWarned To Be ForeArmed!' W/ A Solid 'Unity Of Purpose!' To Preserve The 'Union!' Thanke's 'Don Johnson!'

Secure the voting process! Trump will CHEAT! He will supress the vote! Trump is afraid of the American voter! Go Vote! People! Resistance we must protect the vote! Where are all these people who will help Trump cheat? He will not just walk away! Then what?

I'm shocked. Nancy Pelosi completed a Press Briefing without accusing someone or racism.. but she did manage to paint a picture of a nation in crisis, as usual. And she did manage to present the Democrats as the only solution to the crisis, as usual.

If you can protest and riot, you can vote in person

schlampfe

You will NEVER silence us. You Bleach Drinking Buffoons.

These people are sick. TheGreatAwaking voterIDnow

Or proof the govt only makes things less accessible, more costly, inefficient, and complicated. What, no cultural appropriation today?

The latter!!!!

Well Nancy it is still better than mail in voting that the Supreme Court will never allow

Oh please, everytime Ds lose they make baseless claims of voter suppression. First address the issue of millions of criminal illegals voting D in every election and illegal ballot harvesting that Ds use to steal elections before complaining about non-existent voter suppression

this is pure hypocrisy. States headed by Democrats had similar problems but they chose to hammer on Georgia. This is cheap politics to divide this country and the media is an accomplice to this tragedy.

It was part of a GOP strategy of overt voter suppression. Call it what it is, please.

6 feet

Nothing to do with COVID19 more to do with election fraud! INVESTIGATE THAT!

How convenient - exactly when we’re trying to push for mail in voter fraud.

American people want most certain way of casting our ballots and that is in person.

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