{"id":6581,"date":"2008-10-28T12:23:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T19:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6581"},"modified":"2008-10-29T10:32:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T17:32:46","slug":"diebolds-express-voter-registration-computers-lead-to-long-waits-in-gas-early-voting-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6581","title":{"rendered":"Diebold’s ‘Express’ Voter Registration Computers (Again) Lead to Long Waits in GA’s Early Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Wait times for voters are reported to be as much as 8 hours at one early polling site in Georgia, and now the Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/i> offers this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Wait times of four to six hours were not uncommon Monday. In some places, the lines clipped along at 45 minutes to three hours.<\/p>\n

Elections officials in Fulton, Gwinnett, DeKalb and Cobb counties said the state’s computer system crashed at times and was very slow, bogging down the process.<\/p>\n

The computer system allows poll workers to verify whether voters are properly registered and whether they have already voted.<\/p>\n

High voter turnout was one of the reasons for the slowdown, said Matt Carrothers, a spokesman for Secretary of State Karen Handel’s office.<\/p><\/div>\n

This is early voting. Not all polling places are open so there are only a limited number of polling sites checking in voters. The slow-down and crashing of that system has little to do with high voter turnout. It is once again, as it was during the primary in GA<\/a>, the ironically-named Diebold “ExpressPollbook” registration check-in computer that is slowing things up.<\/p>\n

If the system is already not working with only a limited number of poll sites open, what will happen when all polls are open on November 4th?<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong><\/em> All of that comes on top of late news<\/a> that GA has illegally purged and\/or flagged nearly 5,000 voters from their registration databases, incorrectly identifying them as “non-citizens”.<\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>UPDATE FROM BRAD:<\/strong><\/em> In our continuing desire to try and help bring a smile, even during these difficult times, we offer the ironic, related, very short (appx 1 minute<\/em>) and amusing “Early Voting” video, as posted at right, just out from our friends who made the great Election Integrity documentary Free For All<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

UPDATE FROM BRAD 10\/29\/08:<\/em><\/strong> RAW STORY has video<\/a> of voters waiting 8 hours to vote in GA. Thank you<\/i> to those voters who were willing to hang in there! Shame on you<\/i> to those officials who set up this system that can’t even accommodate the limited numbers of early voters! God save us all next Tuesday. Stay strong and brave people! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org Wait times for voters are reported to be as much as 8 hours at one early polling site in Georgia, and now the Atlanta Journal-Constitution offers this: Wait times of four to six hours were not uncommon Monday. In some places, the lines clipped along at 45 minutes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,122,6,72,243],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dieboldpremier","category-election-2008","category-election-irregularities","category-georgia","category-voter-registration","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6581"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}