The order’s a win for those concerned about election mail capacity, but many machines may not be able to be reassembled.
Voter Suppression
In more than 300 voting cases, Republicans filed to strike rules to encourage turnout and opposed lawsuits to expand it.
Long lines, a record number of mail-in ballots and legal fights have marked voting during the pandemic.
Georgia needs to quickly supply poll places with more paper ballots in case of voting machine or software problems.
The volume of ballot rejections could make the difference in who wins the swing state and possibly the presidency.
Despite a last-minute ruling restricting absentee voting, civil rights advocates are doubling down to get out the vote.
Result delays in Florida left room for conspiracy theories to fester. The same could happen in November.
Barber says that voter suppression efforts ahead of the election amount to “surgical racism with surgical precision.”
Far right groups are recruiting hundreds of volunteers to show up physically at polling places.
Trump and his backers have made clear their intent to denigrate and then defy the popular will.