Georgia voting rights groups, politicians and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden are outraged over election chaos that disenfranchised voters — and made it difficult for thousands to cast a ballot in the state’s primary elections.
WABE has seen reports of many giving up their spot in line after hours of waiting in heat and scattered showers during Tuesday’s primary.
Poll delays, a surge in mail-in ballots, machine glitches and the COVID-19 pandemic complicated in-person voting — to the point where Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced he has opened an investigation into how Fulton and DeKalb counties handled the process.
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