Days before early voting begins in the presidential primary election, Fulton County and East Point will host a demonstration of how to use new voting machines.
The session will be Saturday, Feb. 29 from 10 a.m. to noon at East Point City Hall, 2757 East Point St., the city announced Monday.
The event — hosted by Rep. Kim Schofield, D-Atlanta, and Fulton County Commissioner Joe Carn — is the third demo in the city of about 35,000 residents.
The county has been holding scores of demos throughout Fulton as part of the largest rollout of elections equipment in U.S. history.
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The state awarded Dominion Voting Systems a $104 million contract this summer to provide more than 75,000 new computers and printers to 2,600 precincts. The 18-year-old electronic machines in Fulton lacked a paper ballot and are being replaced with a patchwork of touchscreens, printed ballots and scanners.
There will also be a showing Saturday of "Suppressed: The Fight to Vote", which looks at the race between Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams, who is suing the state over voting problems, and the winning Republican candidate Gov. Brian Kemp.
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According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's reporting, Fair Fight Action, a voting rights group founded by Abrams' allies, claims in a lawsuit that Georgia election officials inappropriately purged voter registrations, canceled absentee ballots, created long lines and failed to protect voting integrity. State election officials have denied allegations that state laws and election procedures disenfranchise voters.
With an Election Day on March 24, primary early voting begins March 2.
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