Flaws in Georgia’s Election System Let 1,000 People Vote Twice
A double-voting fiasco—a combination of glitchy technology and human error—doesn’t bode well for November.
Atlanta voters in Georgia’s primary election on June 9.
Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images
Lynn Elander, a semi-retired marketing executive in Atlanta, voted twice in Georgia’s presidential and U.S. Senate primary races this year. She didn’t mean to, she says. But Georgia’s election system let her do it.
Elander voted first in March, in advance of the state’s March 24 presidential primary, and then again in late May, after coronavirus fears delayed the original primary twice. She went to the polls the second time to vote on down-ballot races that hadn’t appeared on the March ballot. But when she inserted her ballot card into the machine, it pulled up all the races, including those she had already voted on. She assumed her earlier ballot had been discarded and cast her vote again.