Stacey Abrams didn’t pussyfoot around about the problems that plagued Georgia’s presidential primary this week. “It was an unmitigated disaster,” the state’s former gu…
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“What was it?” he asked her. “Why was it such a clustermunch?” The Fair Fight founder expanded on her “disaster” declaration by addressing the cries of voter suppression from some in Georgia and elsewhere: “The secretary of state, who is in charge of elections, claims that he had no responsibility for the actual performance of elections. So instead, it depended on the county you lived in if you had access to democracy.
The Georgia primary saw many voting machines not working, polling places opening late and people waiting in line as long as seven hours — some “until 12:36 a.m.,” as Abrams noted.
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