Technical glitches mar governor’s race in Georgia
driver who said she watched 100 voters leave Annistown Elementary School after discovering the voting machines weren’t working. Sneeze said she arrived at 7 a.m. to discover a long line already formed. Voting didn’t start until after 11 a.m.
In North Dakota, a voting-rights lawyer said dozens of Native American voters were being turned away because of issues with their identification. Poll workers were rejecting identification issued by tribal officials, according to Carla Fredericks, director of the Indian Law Clinic at the University of Colorado.
“After I caught a voter who was being denied his right to vote and told him to go back in and request a set-aside ballot, the election worker told me I was interfering and need to leave,” said Fredericks, a member of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation in central North Dakota.
Complaints also emerged of voting machines flipping voters’ choices in Illinois, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas, and of voters with limited English proficiency in the Houston area being blocked from bringing an interpreter with them to vote, as required under the Voting Rights Act, accord-
ATLANTA — Voters in one of the nation’s most closely watched governor’s races cast ballots Tuesday amid an ongoing dispute about one of the candidates’ management of Georgia’s elections system, leaving open the possibility that supporters on the losing side may not accept the outcome.
Republican Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams are meeting in one of the signature contests of the 2018 midterm elections, with potential outcomes ranging from the ing to civil rights groups. election of America’s first
“We will continue to black female governor to provide these updates and another four weeks of bitfield these reports throughter, race-laden campaignout the day and throughouting. the night, and work with Adding to the Election election officials to troubleDay drama, widespread reshoot and resolve them,” ports of technical malfuncsaid Kristen Clarke, executions and long lines at tive director of the Lawyers polling stations came in Committee for Civil Rights from across the state, with Under Law. some voters reporting
“If we need to, we’ll go to waits of up to three hours to court,” Clarke said. “Our cast ballots. goal is to make sure that A state judge ordered every eligible American three precincts in suburban that seeks to have their Gwinnett County, a popuvoice heard is able to do so lous swing county, to exthis election cycle.” tend their polling hours,
In Houston, a Harris one of them as late as 9:25 County deputy cited a poll p.m. Tuesday. An order worker for misdemeanor issued in Fulton County assault after she allegedly Superior Court said three bumped a voter during an polling places must stay argument and made a racist open late — two until 10 comment. p.m.
The Houston Chronicle The elections chief reported the dispute began wasn’t immune to the diffiover a discrepancy with the culties: When Kemp went voter’s address. The conto cast his ballot, he had an frontation escalated and issue with his voter card, the worker, who is white, but it was fixed quickly. He made a racist comment to walked by reporters and the voter, a black woman. said: “Take 2.” Witnesses confirmed to the In all, voters were choosnewspaper that the worker ing 36 governors and 6,089 said, “Maybe if I’d worn my state legislators in general blackface makeup today and special elections that you could comprehend have attracted record what I’m saying to you.” amounts of spending from
Harris County authornational Democratic and ities are investigating. Republican groups. The outcomes of those contests will have major implications for Democratic ef- Tyra Moreland directs voters away from their usual polling place at an Atlanta library to one about 2 miles away. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, an activist, greets gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on Tuesday at a cafe in Atlanta. Candidate Brian Kemp gives a thumbs-up after voting in Winterville, Ga. forts to build a state-level firewall against some of President Donald Trump’s policies, including his effort to overturn the Affordable Care Act and gut environmental and labor laws.
Republican Asa Hutchinson defeated Democrat Jared Henderson in his re-election race as governor.
Former Republican U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis rode President Trump’s backing to defeat Democratic Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, who conceded late Tuesday in the gubernatorial race.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner conceded to his Democratic opponent, billionaire J.B. Pritzker, less than an hour after polls closed.
Republican Charlie Baker defeated Democrat Jay Gonzalez to win a second term.
Larry Hogan became the first Republican governor to win reelection in Maryland since 1954 by beating Democrat Ben Jealous.
Democrat Gretchen Whitmer defeated Republican Bill Schuette.
Democrat Andrew Cuomo defeated Republican challenger Marc Molinaro to win a third term.
Tom Wolf won a second term as Pennsylvania governor, beating Republican challenger Scott Wagner.
Republican businessman Bill Lee defeated Democratic former Nashville Mayor Karl Dean.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott won a second term in one of the state’s most uneventful races for governor in decades.
Former Democratic lawmaker and Bank of Guam President Lou Leon Guerrero was elected the first female governor of the U.S. territory.