Democrats Sue Georgia To Prevent Long Lines In Nov. 3 Election

ATLANTA, GA — Democrats sued Georgia Thursday to force officials to fix the problems that plagued June’s primary election.

The suit wants a judge to mandate more places to vote, emergency paper ballots and competent poll workers.

The lawsuit — filed by the Democratic Party of Georgia, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and voters from Cobb and Gwinnett counties — follows a messy June 9 Georgia primary.

Long lines of voters, too few polling locations and malfunctioning voting machines — mostly in metro Atlanta — attracted national attention, with politicians from both parties blaming each other.

“The issues we saw in Georgia in the primary cannot be repeated in November,” said U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, chairwoman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Although local officials have promised to add voting locations and poll workers, the lawsuit contends it won’t be enough to ensure fair voting on Nov. 3.

Even before the coronavirus pandemic scared away poll workers and forced closing some precincts, election officials in Georgia already were limiting ways to vote easily.

According to an analysis by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, counties closed 214 precincts between 2012 and 2018. At the same time, the number of registered voters increased by about 1 million.

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