A scanner named Bruno Jr.
Poll manager Jeannette Cooper stood in front of the seven voting machines at the Jewish Educational Alliance in Savannah mid-afternoon, keeping an eye on everything.
“You can’t put that in your pocket! she told a middle-aged male voter as he folded his ballot printout into his khakis. “That’s your vote. You have to cast it.” As he smoothed out the wrinkles, grumbling about unclear instructions, Cooper walked him over to the scanner and he fed it in successfully.
By about 2 p.m., 427 voters had cast their ballots at the JEA. Two Republicans poll watchers had been there for a few hours earlier in the day. “They did their count and I did mine, Cooper said. “It was their first time. They enjoyed it.”
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