All voting machines down in Spalding County, Georgia!

[mfcorey1]

https://www.cbs46.com/news/voting-system-down-throughout-spalding-county/article_9412393e-1dd7-11eb-ae64-935400375724.html?block_id=994626

[zackymilly]

1. Is that a blue or red county? n/t

[LisaL]

2. Red.

NT

[getagrip_already]

3. Do you mean Spaulding? there is a thread already n/t

[mfcorey1]

6. ok

[Yonnie3]

10. Spalding is correct

The other thread apparently had a typo.

[Hoyt]

5. Everyone's vote should count. But this is a big rube area of Georgia.

[still_one]

8. Thanks, good to know

[beachbumbob]

7. sure makes the early voting looking good

[Yonnie3]

9. Spalding county votes in 2016

2016 in Spalding County

100% Reporting

R D. Trump 60.3% 15,636
D H. Clinton 36.0% 9,347
L G. Johnson 3.7% 957

From politico site https://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/georgia/

[AllaN01Bear]

11. id love to see a collective law suit going after this once and for all

[Happyhippychick]

12. Oh

Well

[durablend]

14. Not really

While fucking the other side over sounds good, let's not give them more ammunition to say they were robbed of their votes.

[Happyhippychick]

16. I couldn't care less about their whining

[myccrider]

17. This part isn't about them,

it’s about us.

Do we uphold the principle of all votes should be counted or do we act like them and cheer when the other side is cheated?

I have the same urge to rub their faces in it, but then my better angel smacks me upside the head and says "BEHAVE! Be a better human."

[Happyhippychick]

18. I'm not cheering. I'm NOT CARING.

Different.

[myccrider]

21. OK

Don’t see a big difference, in principal. If a person doesn’t care about someone else being cheated, that person doesn’t have a lot of currency if they complain when they’re cheated.

Peace.

[Midnightwalk]

13. We still use paper ballots in Arizona

Long and stiff piece of paper. Felt tip pens on the "booths". Both sides need to be filled out. We can vote to retain or remove a long list of judges, so it's always used both sides for as long as I remember. There are still poll books with all the names in the precinct where you sign your name to get a ballot.

This year a poll worker replace the pen each use with one just wiped down.

Never had any trouble or worry about my vote counting. I'm sure the ballots are just run through a machine, scanned and votes tabulated. Simpler is sometimes much better. Probably cheaper too as the only technology is in the counting machine.

It's nice when we do something right

Patience everyone in line! You're doing something incredibly important so hang in there.

[bamagal62]

15. We are similar here in Chicago.

We vote on a machine. It prints the ballot out. We sign and place in the scanner.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. That's The Most Common In Illinois

I know people who live in a half dozen large counties. I live in one of them!
We all have the same system you describe.

[palustris]

20. Reading stories like this

and queues being half an hour seems bit strange to me. I live in Finland and obviously haven't voted elsewhere.

But every time I've cast my vote for decades now, I've walked to the location from my home, which has taken max 10 minutes. No queue (well maybe one or two persons), present ID, get ballot, get in one of the booths, write the number of candidate and drop the ballot to the box observed by people from all parties.

I don't know if it's because population is smaller. But as foreigner I truly don't understand how voting process can be so difficult as it seems to be in there. And as for these machines, I hope we never get anything like that.

Just previously I looked at post saying 30 minutes was "short" which seems unfathomable to me.

I wonder what the election results would look like if voting was bit easier there?