Georgia shows why November’s election could be chaos

Enlarge / People wait to vote in Georgia's primary election on June 9 in Atlanta. (credit: Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

There's broad agreement that last week's primary election in Georgia was a fiasco, with voters reportedly waiting as long as five hours to cast a ballot.

Democrats accused Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger of bungling the statewide rollout of new election technology. Some went further, suggesting that the problems-which were most severe in Democratic areas-were a deliberate Republican strategy.

"What happened in Georgia yesterday was by design," former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted last Wednesday. "Voter suppression is a threat to our democracy."

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