Youtube video from Fulton County on election day updates.
Zoom call between election officials, Dick Anderson, Richard Barron & city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l0zBdp4vac
Night before "One of the companies we contracted with backed out, and we had to scramble to replace that company… …late into the night and the next morning."
"All of the equipment was not on site at 7:00am when the polls opened, and we had to vote using the transition ballot". (Later stated he meant provisional ballot).
"Some people in line, choose to wait in line until the BMD (ballot marking device) was up and operational."
Company, named Beltman, said they had no staff to help us vote. Effected about 30 precincts. Later stated this was a moving company. Why was the moving company needed? The early voting operation is so large, therefore we have to take over all that early voting equipment and all of that early voting equipment needs to be delivered on Monday. We were able to get all that early voting equipment out into the field."
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Technical gliches:
Most of the issues are with the scanners or the poll pads.
Poll pads we purchased before this election cycle allowed us to login remotely to see what was happening on them (through the cradle point), and had poll workers do a hard reset on them.
When you have a lot of technology in the field - ipads, printers, touch screens, scanners you have the possibility of inoperability.
Polling location of Morris Brandon Elementary had technical issues, tech was on site. They were resolved - had poll pad issue, and fixed through the cradle point. They fixed it by logging in remotely.
"Whatever we scanned in at 2:00, we will send over to the warehouse to be tabulated for tonight, and we will send another update around 10:00 to add more ballots into the final tabulation."
"At 7:00pm we can close out our early voting and then we will upload those early voting results shortly thereafter. Probably take at least an hour to get those all closed out and into the server."
"We are projecting 150,000 - 170,000 people to vote today on election day. Getting us to 75% - 80% turnout."