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Polls Remain Open After Technical Disasters

Submitted by jrsh247 on Tue, 11/06/2018 - 20:15

By Zack Damron

Polls across the East Coast are remaining open after major technical glitches have occurred throughout the day. The main race to watch is the gubernatorial in Georgia between current-Secretary of State Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams. Currently, there are some polling places in key Gwinnett County that are staying open as late as 9:30 p.m.

Metro Atlanta has had a plethora of problems occur from electronic machines going down, to a shortage of voting machines, to electricity issues. Voters are not being discouraged by the long lines though, with numerous photos going around the web showing long lines at the time of this writing.

Polling places in Illinois are also staying open because they were not able to get open at 6 a.m. In Indiana, a polling place in Monroe County (Bloomington) did not receive enough ballots for the influx of voters. According to reports, these polling places are being forced to print “hundreds and hundreds and hundreds” of ballots on top of the 150-200 they already receive. Ballots will still be cast, but in the extra hour that the polls remain open (6 p.m. – 7 p.m.) the ballots will only be considered provisional, and will need official approval to count.

Don’t be discouraged. Stay in line. Vote.

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