Posted on 08/20/2002 9:02:36 AM PDT by Coop
Excerpt:
A light but steady flow of voters was reported at several metro Atlanta polling places during the early stages of today's primary election, and at least one precinct was briefly shut down because of confusion over redistricting.
Voters have faced massive precinct shifts as a result of this year's once-a-decade redrawing of political district maps.
Confusion over the redistricting prompted the precinct at Margaret Harris High School, off North Druid Hills Road in DeKalb County, to suspend voting for about 20 minutes shortly after opening today, said poll manager Maria Arvelo.
Arvelo said the precinct had recently been moved from the 4th Congressional District to the 5th District, but after several voters came in thinking they were still in the 4th District, "we had to shut the precinct down until we got clarification on it."
"People were confused because there are signs along North Druid Hills saying Cynthia McKinney and Denise Majette, and people were like, 'Well, I wasn't notified [of the change],' " Arvelo said. "But they were notified because their voter's registration says District 5."
She said the precinct would remain open an extra 20 minutes -- until 7:20 p.m. -- to make up for the time it closed this morning.
At the Briarwood Recreation Center in DeKalb, about 10 people were waiting when the polls opened at 7 a.m.
Most of those voting during the first 15 minutes were casting ballots in the Democratic primary, said Dottie Cadenhead, the poll manager.
The only early problem was one voter -- the first person in one in line -- who was at the wrong precinct, Cadenhead said.
"He was disappointed, but I think he'll make his way over to another precinct," she said.
At DeKalb's Medlock Elementary School, 60 people had either already voted or were waiting in line to vote at 7:30 a.m.
In northwest Atlanta, Bill Dennis, poll manager at Morris Brandon Elementary School precinct, said the line upon opening was "about average" for a primary, with about 10 people queued.
Dennis said that fewer than 20 people voted during the first 30 minutes. The turnout was even lighter elsewhere.
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TheLiberal (15 posts)
Aug-20-02, 10:39 PM (ET)
Reply to post #63
90. This is sickening!
How is this happening? Ms McKinney has carried this district by a land-slide in the past! How is this POSSIBLE????
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RBHam (1345 posts)
Aug-20-02, 10:11 PM (ET)
73. The lies and the smears have worked... Guess it's time to start booking your rooms at the FEMA detention camps, fellow Liberals, for this is what Majette's victory portends...
God Help us All
"Dissent Is Verboten!" - Field Marshall Von Ashcroft
LOL. I take it they've given up on their "McKinney Victory Thread."
If there are any DU lurkers, I have just one question. How could you support someone that you KNOW accepted campaign contributions from several Arabs with terrorist ties on the afternoon of September 11? Have you given that any thought at all?
Which statement was that?
McKinney's campaign director, State Rep Tyrone Brooks, claims that all of those folks will be paid in checks, supposedly all written by hand (right!) by McKinney's mother.
Sounds like more smoke and mirrors to me.
The Nation of Islam representatives stormed out of the campaign location where this was taking place, and the WGCL reporter says she overheard a couple of them insisting loudly that they would never be involved in something as shoddily run as this was ever again...
How can this statement be true...
In another high-profile primary in the Atlanta area, Democrats confounded predictions of a light turnout and flocked to polls in the DeKalb and Gwinnett counties to decide a bitter contest that was seen as a mini-referendum on U.S. support for Israel.
If *this* statement is true:
Jewish groups, meanwhile, helped fund the campaign of Majette, 46, which drew support from thousands of Republicans who jumped ship to vote in the Democratic primary.
Those THOUSANDS of votes are coming from REPUBLICANS in a DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY!!!!!!! It's not just democrats who "flocked to the polls." It's Republicans who "jumped ship."
What the hell remedy or preventative measure could observers have done to stop such an underhanded move? Carter can't be there for EVERY damn election! Repukes are literally slicing the throats of progressive candidates everywhere and it's so frustrating to sit here and watch it happen. Where was the showing of support for Cynthia by Democratic Pary big-wigs? Where was the vote of confidence for her work? Why the hell are we allowing these masquerading DINOS the opportunity to further sink our already bruised and abused nation into corporate, fascist hell?
I'm at a loss. What do we do? Where do we go from here?
Liberal Throat slicing bump...
<]:^)
Thier ideological spin is false, because Barr lost to another conservative.
Mathematically stated, the chances of a Pubbie winning in this District approach zero so closely that the chance is indistinguishable from zero.
|
GA House Dist 44 (D) |
| Precincts Reporting: 13 of 21 62% |
| Candidate | Votes | Vote % | |
| JOHN NOEL | 2,133 | 73% | |
| BILLY MCKINNEY (Incumbent) | 672 | 23% | |
| PATRICK STAFFORD | 118 | 4% |
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