Voter suppression in Georgia portends catastrophe for November
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By Mark Gruenberg

ATLANTA-The big story in the political party primaries on June 9 wasn't who won or lost, but voter suppression in Georgia – and what that could mean for November's balloting.

That Georgia mess – a toxic brew of few voting machines, especially in African-American areas, breakdowns of a new voting system and lack of trained poll workers - drew national notice as a potential precursor of nationwide election problems in November.

The result in Georgia, and especially Atlanta, which is majority-minority, was lines so long that voters in one African-American precinct in Union City reported finally leaving the polls at, no kidding, 12:36 a.m. By contrast, a white voter in Atlanta's northern Fulton County suburbs tweeted voting took only 20 minutes in her precinct.

"We only have a few months left until voters around the nation head to the polls again, and efforts should begin immediately to ensure that every Georgian - and every American - is able to safely exercise their right to vote," Rachana Desai Martin, director of voter protection for former Vice President Joe Biden, said in a statement. Biden now has enough Democratic Convention delegates to officially be the party's nominee this fall.

Biden himself called...

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