Kemp's voter card said 'invalid' when he tried to vote

[Julian Englis]

Source: The Hill

Georgia Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp (R) received a voter card that said “invalid” when he tried to use it to vote on Election Day.

Kemp went to his home polling place in Winterville, Ga. on Tuesday afternoon, and had to go back and get another card after unsuccessfully trying to vote, according to Georgia’s Channel 2 Action News.

Kemp is not the only Georgia voter to face issues casting their ballot. Many voters reported long wait times and malfunctioning voting machines. One polling site mistakenly installed only three voting machines.

The closely-watched race between Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams has been rife with accusations of voter suppression. Kemp has faced a number of lawsuits related to the state’s voter registration laws over concerns about suppression of minority voters.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/415346-kemps-voter-card-said-invalid-when-he-tried-to-vote

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Probably was invalid because he's likely a felon.

[liberal N proud]

1. That would be funny if he purged his own registration

[dflprincess]

2. Or if someone in his office made sure he was purged

Karma can be so hard.

[liberal N proud]

4. You know he will blame Stacy Abrams

[jmowreader]

3. Which is possibly the funniest thing we'll hear today

[marble falls]

5. Karma can be just a pain in the neck some times.

[Sedona]

6. False flag operation,

See? It's not KKKemp's fault
Even he got a bad card.

[slumcamper]

7. I think you nailed it.

If not, we are both righteously--and justifiably--cynical!

[eggplant]

18. This was my first thought.

[tinrobot]

8. Bwahahahaha!

Best thing I've heard all day.

[Merlot]

9. And kemp was secretly pleased.

He knows his system is stoping people from voting, and if a few republicans get caught up in the net, small price to pay.

[riversedge]

10. I wonder where he had to go back to???

what are voting cards??


........Kemp went to his home polling place in Winterville, Ga. on Tuesday afternoon, and had to go back and get another card after unsuccessfully trying to vote, according to Georgia’s Channel 2 Action News.

[Fuzzpope]

11. Voting card?

Good question, because I've seen several mentions of these mythical voting cards but I never received anything like that, just a postcard in the mail that gives the location of my polling station.

The next question is, why does Kemp have two of them?

[Marie Marie]

12. Don't know if this is the same thing but

I vote in PA and once you check in, they give you a card (generic and plastic - like a credit card) to be inserted into the voting machine which brings up the voting screens. Once you have finished, the card ejects and you give it back to the poll workers who hand it to the next voter.

[CottonBear]

16. That's what the "voter card" is.

I live in GA. You get a plastic card to insert into the electronic voting machine. It activates the machine. It is ejected when you cast your vote and you hand it back to the poll worker.

[7962]

14. The card has a chip in it to allow you to access the machine. It wont work without that card.

You log your votes after you review your picks & eject the card.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. Ha ha

[MarvinGardens]

15. Same happened to me in GA in 2016.

I put in my card, and got an error message, maybe "invalid", I don't remember exactly. The supervisor stopped issuance of new cards immediately and had his election workers immediately do an accounting. I guess they worked it out because I was given a new card which allowed me to vote.

GA is so fucked up, in my opinion. Old electronic machines with no paper ballot whatsoever, and if you want to vote in city elections, you have to go to a separate polling place. I had previously lived in NC, and they used paper ballots with optical scan.

[Ilsa]

17. The panel on msnbc was highly critical of GA's

lack of a paper trail or hard copy proof of votes. Said votes could go "poof" with no chance to recover them for a recount or audit. I complain about it every time I vote.