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    09/03/2020 -Atlanta, Georgia - Attorneys Joyce Gist Lewis (left), Halsey Knapp (center) and Adam M. Sparks of the Krevolin & Horst firm stand for portrait outside of their office building in Atlanta's Midtown community, Thursday, September 3, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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    U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg listens Wednesday as Alex Halderman, a University of Michigan computer science professor, demonstrates how an electronic voting machine like those used in Georgia could be hacked. Totenberg is overseeing a lawsuit that asks her to invalidate Georgia’s 27,000 touchscreen voting machines and replace them with paper ballots in time for the general election. RICHARD MILLER / CONTRIBUTED
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    June 9, 2020 Atlanta: Voters had a long wait (some 2-3 hours) at the Park Tavern polling place located at 500 10th St NE, on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 in Atlanta. Many voters said they requested absentee ballots but never received them. Two lines, 300-yards long each formed parallel to Piedmont park in the parking lot as people patiently waited to vote. Over 1.2 million people had already voted before the polls opened on Tuesday, three-quarters of them with absentee-by-mail ballots, allowing them to avoid human contact at the polls. Voters will decide on many candidates, from president to county sheriff. The ballot also includes races for U.S. Senate, U.S. House and the Georgia General Assembly. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM
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    Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel speaks during the first night of the Republican National Convention from the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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    C.K. Hoffler (center) wore a face shield as she voted at Cross Keys High School located at 1626 N Druid Hills Rd NE in DeKalb County where volunteers passed out water bottles to a crowd of 100 voters lined up for hours outside the building. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM
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    Michael Hanson votes in May at the DeKalb County Voter Registration and Elections Office near Decatur. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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    A political display is set up in the lawn of a home in Mason, Mich., seen Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. Barb Byrum, the Democratic clerk of Ingham County, filed a complaint with police over the display, saying it could mislead people who aren’t familiar with how mail-in voting works. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP)
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    FILE - In this July 7, 2020, file photo a woman wearing gloves drops off a mail-in ballot at a drop box in Hackensack, N.J. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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    In this file photo, voters cast ballots during the early voting period at C.T. Martin Natatorium and Recreation Center on October 18, 2018 in Atlanta, GA. (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images/TNS)
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    August 11, 2020 Atlanta: Stickers await voters on Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at Park Tavern located at 500 10th St NE in Atlanta. A heated race for Fulton County district attorney saw a light turnout at the polls on Tuesday, August 11, 2020. Incumbent Paul Howard faces his former chief deputy, Fani Willis, in a closely watched contest to become the countyÕs top prosecutor. Election officials said they learned lessons from the June 9 primary to avoid the kind of extreme lines that some voters encountered last time. Poll workers have been retrained. Technicians were on hand at every voting location in Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties. Voting machines were delivered well in advance of election day. Still, some voters experienced problems and long waits at the polls. Nearly 377,000 Georgians already voted in advance of election day, most of them casting absentee ballots. About 60% of early votes were absentee; the rest were cast in person during three weeks of early voting. With so many voters using absentee ballots, election results might be slow to come in Tuesday night. Absentee ballots will be counted if theyÕre received by county election officials before 7 p.m., but each ballot has to be fed through a scanner to be counted, a process that can take days. Election officials say itÕs normal for absentee vote-counting to take some time. But that means close races might not be settled on election night. The winners of TuesdayÕs runoffs will advance to the general election in November, when turnout is expected to break records and exceed 5 million voters. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM
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    Mail-in paper ballots wait to be scanned by Fulton County employees at the Georgia World Congress Center during the Georgia primary on June 9. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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    Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Tuesday that 1,000 Georgians voted twice in the state’s June 9 primary, a felony that he said will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law during a press conference at Liberty Plaza across from the Georgia State Capitol. These voters returned absentee ballots and then also showed up to vote on election day, Raffensperger said. County election officials are able to stop double-voting most of the time, but they weren’t able to catch everyone. “A double-voter knows exactly what they’re doing, diluting the votes of each and every voter that follows the law,” Raffensperger said. “Those that make the choice to game the system are breaking the law. And as secretary of state, I will not tolerate it.” Double-voting didn’t change the outcome of any races in the primary, Raffensperger said. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
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    1,000 people double-voted in Georgia primary, says secretary of state
    Fahim Akbar (far left) takes a selfie with his parents, Jalal Akbar and Ruby Begum after they voted on Thursday Oct. 18, 2018 at the Cobb County West Park Government Center at 736 Whitlock Ave NW in Marietta that had waits for early voting that sometimes stretched to three hours. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM
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    State Election Board members prepare for an emergency hearing in March at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education in Athens. (Photo/Austin Steele for The Atlanta Journal Constitution)
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    Vote-by-mail fraud more a fear than a reality in Georgia
    Donell Peterman talks about voter registration issues in his Union City home. STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC
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    Many eligible Georgia voters were canceled in nation’s largest purge
    People lined up for early voting in Gwinnett County. Georgia purged more than 600,000 people from voter rolls in 2017. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM
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    August 11, 2020 Atlanta: Some 70 Fulton County Registration & Election Board workers handled some 20,000 absentee ballots on Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at State Farm Arena located at 1 State Farm Drive in Atlanta. A heated race for Fulton County district attorney saw a light turnout at the polls on Tuesday, August 11, 2020. Incumbent Paul Howard faces his former chief deputy, Fani Willis, in a closely watched contest to become the county’s top prosecutor. Election officials said they learned lessons from the June 9 primary to avoid the kind of extreme lines that some voters encountered last time. Poll workers have been retrained. Technicians were on hand at every voting location in Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties. Voting machines were delivered well in advance of election day. Still, some voters experienced problems and long waits at the polls. Nearly 377,000 Georgians already voted in advance of election day, most of them casting absentee ballots. About 60% of early votes were absentee; the rest were cast in person during three weeks of early voting. With so many voters using absentee ballots, election results might be slow to come in Tuesday night. Absentee ballots will be counted if they’re received by county election officials before 7 p.m., but each ballot has to be fed through a scanner to be counted, a process that can take days. Election officials say it’s normal for absentee vote-counting to take some time. But that means close races might not be settled on election night. The winners of Tuesday’s runoffs will advance to the general election in November, when turnout is expected to break records and exceed 5 million voters. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM
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    People vote at the Wolf Creek Library in South Fulton on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020. STEVE SCHAEFER /SPECIAL TO THE AJC
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    Poll workers respond to early glitches at the Park Tavern polling place in Atlanta on June 9. Many voters said they requested absentee ballots for the Georgia primary but never received them. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM
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    Records reveal dozens of investigations into Georgia election problems
    Voters wait in a line Tuesday that stretched around the Metropolitan Library. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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    Voters waited as much as 3 1/2 hours in long lines, at times in the rain, Tuesday at New Beginnings Full Gospel Church. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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    Election workers sort absentee ballots on Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at State Farm Arena. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM
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    Nov 6, 2018 Winterville: Secretary of State Brian Kemp, Republican candidate for Georgia governor, with his daughter Amy Porter, casts his vote at the Winterville Train Depot on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Winterville. Curtis Compton/ccompton@ajc.com
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    Poll workers respond to early glitches at the Park Tavern polling place located at 500 10th St NE, on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 in Atlanta. Many voters said they requested absentee ballots but never received them. Two lines, 300-yards long each formed parallel to Piedmont park in the parking lot as people patiently waited to vote. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM
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    Poll manager Michelle Hairston and poll workers wait between voters during Tuesday's election runoff at Flat Shoals Elementary School in Atlanta. Curtis Compton ccompton@ajc.com
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