Georgia's Election Meltdown

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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A full-scale meltdown of new voting systems in Georgia is alarming Democratic leaders — and revealing a new national playing field — ahead of the general election in November. Today, we explore why voting access in Georgia has become a national issue for the party. Guest: Astead W. Herndon, who covers national politics for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily Background reading: Long lines and malfunctioning voting machines marred Georgia primary elections, renewing attention on voting rights there, and raising questions about how to ensure access to voting in the general election.With both Senate seats in play and President Trump up for re-election in November, Georgia Democrats are telling anyone who will listen: This time will be different.

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0:25.6	From The New York Times, I'm Caitlin Dickerson.
0:32.6	This is The Daily.
0:40.6	Today, a full-scale meltdown of new voting systems in Georgia is alarming Democratic leaders
0:48.3	ahead of the state's general election in November.
0:51.9	My colleague, Asdee Heardin, on why voting access in Georgia has become national issue
0:58.1	for the party.
1:00.0	It's Thursday, June 11.
1:03.0	Okay, Asdee.
1:05.8	So tell me what happened on Tuesday in Georgia.
1:09.9	Tuesday was Georgia's primary elections, where they were slated to send Senate candidates
1:14.9	and House candidates ahead to November's general election.
1:19.5	But after twice being delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic, finally primary election day and
1:25.8	some of the polls simply did not go as planned.
1:29.5	What we saw on Tuesday did not look much like an election at all.
1:36.4	Our newsroom is flooded with emails, calls, tweets, text, voter-supporting issues and
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