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Fulton County Voting Problems

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Fulton Voting Problems Equal Headaches for Buckhead Voters

Secretary of State says Fulton County was not prepared for Election Day.

Several Buckhead voters, like others in Fulton County, were forced to cast provisional ballots because their names were somehow missing from the county's registration rolls on Election Day. According to an 11Alive news report, the Georgia Secretary of State's office plans to investigate the Fulton Elections Board following numerous voter complaints on Tuesday. Fulton County polling sites faced a slew of problems: outdated voter registration rolls, broken machines and even power outages. One polling location in south Fulton opened late because the polling managers there did not have the correct keys to unlock the voting machines. Valerie Traber, a Buckhead resident, said she updated her address from Athens to Atlanta a couple of days before…

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