More people have voted early in Lowndes County than ever before,
with cars often backed up onto the street waiting to get into
the Board of Elections.
Eames Yates wrote for WCTV Friday, Record Breaking Number of Early Voters in Lowndes County,
More people have now voted early in Lowndes County than any time in history. Sherrie Luther was voter 22,00[0]…
making her ballot the one that broke the previous record set four years ago.
In the 2008 presidential election, there were 45 days of early voting in Lowndes County. In this year’s election there were just 16 days. Nevertheless the record was broken.
Sherrie was rewarded
with a $5 dollar gift certificate for ice cream, but her vote symbolized the importance of something deeper.
Deb Cox is the Supervisor of Elections for Lowndes County. She said “the voting process, the democratic process.. this is the foundation of our entire country. Everything rests on this. If this process
doesn’t work correctly nothing else does either.”
2,151 Friday alone, more than any other day in early voting, and 23,324 total voted in all of this election’s early voting days.
But it did work correctly. In fact the only complaint is that the polls aren’t open longer. Early voter Robert Rodriguez “there’s no convincing argument that I have that says that you can’t do it on Saturday, Sunday and Monday before the election.”
Well, as Deb Cox knows, there’s another complaint.
Those voting machines say when you’re done that “your vote has been recorded.”
But has it?
Every electronic voting machine without a paper trail has been
demonstrated to be easily subvertible.
Now as she has reminded me before, she doesn’t decide what machines to use;
that’s the Secretary of State.
But it’s an issue we need to get fixed, with paper trails.
And for Tuesday there’s another issue:
the ever-changing precincts.
Canvassing last night, a popular question was “where do we vote?”
You can look up your precinct and polling place,
plus a sample ballot,
on
My Voter Page by the Georgia Secretary of State.
If you have Internet access.
Which a lot of poor people around here do not have.
Or you can call the Board of Elections.
But why do the precincts have to change so often?
Remember, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on that great election day, November 6th, at your precinct.
Several recent elections here have been decided by less than 100 votes.
Your vote counts!
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