Voting has become a major challenge for some of Georgia's would-be voters. There are the
40,000 missing registrants, who a judge refused to assist, and who are just out of luck. And actual, registered voters hit an
Election Day roadblock when they were trying to find their polling place earlier today: The Republican Secretary of State's voter information website crashed.
Some users reported they could get the site’s splash page to load, but when they entered their information, they were told that no match could be found in their county for their information. […]
Republican Sec. of State Brian Kemp’s office maintains the website. Kemp stated earlier this year that the job of Republicans is to block the Democratic Party’s efforts to organize and mobilize black and Latino voters into a viable voting bloc.
"Democrats are working hard, and all these stories about them, you know, registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines," Kemp told supporters in July, "if they can do that, they can win these elections in November."
Both the senate race between Republican David Perdue and Democrat Michelle Nunn and the governor's race between Democratic State Senator Jason Carter and Republican incumbent Gov. Nathan Deal are too close to call in the polling. The
My Voter Page came back online as of about 9:45 ET, but for several hours this morning kept would-be voters in the dark.
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