Posted on Oct 18, 2020
Why Do Nonwhite Georgia Voters Have To Wait In Line For Hours? Too Few Polling Places
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Kathy spotted the long line of voters as she pulled into the Christian City Welcome Center about 3:30 p.m., ready to cast her ballot in the June 9 primary election.
Hundreds of people were waiting in the heat and rain outside the lush, tree-lined complex in Union City, an Atlanta suburb with 22,400 residents, nearly 88% of them Black. She briefly considered not casting a ballot at all, but decided to stay.
Hundreds of people were waiting in the heat and rain outside the lush, tree-lined complex in Union City, an Atlanta suburb with 22,400 residents, nearly 88% of them Black. She briefly considered not casting a ballot at all, but decided to stay.
Why Do Nonwhite Georgia Voters Have To Wait In Line For Hours? Too Few Polling Places
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Election 2020
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If it is like the place I iive, this is early voting with a limited number of places open. It's taking about 90 min-2 hours here and in a few sections 3 hours or more. However, on election day there will be four or five times as many locations. This has nothing to do with race although they would like you to think so.
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SMSgt David A Asbury
I agree with you Charlie, but there are solutions to the problem, sounds like lack of planning to me.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
SMSgt David A Asbury - our county is actively trying to recruit more poll workers. They just can't find enough people. And a lot of the current crew are retirees; many of whom are unwilling to leave quarantine apparently
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SMSgt David A Asbury
I agree there is a shortage, but they can set up preventive measures to ease some of concerns. I know from experience working the Primary in May, the push was to add more people working less hours to reduce exposure for some. We ended up without major concerns but thanks to those who requested early mail in ballots also helped. In fact we didn't start with the counting until 7:30 at night and were done with the count by 10:45 PM. Before we had two shifts.
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Should not be a reason they could not open up more polls, churches, schools and other areas could be used.The leaders in the town should recruit more people from the area where the shortages are happening and stronger drives registering to vote with change of addresses. This sounds more like a lack of knowledge for some voters.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Lines of voters? I do not recall ever waiting more than perhaps 5 or 10 minute to cast my ballot in a polling place. Was California actually better than some other states? Unbelievable. CPT Jack Durish Comments?
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