This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis story was featured in Drop Me The Link, our one-story election newsletter. Lines snaked out the doors, poll workers struggled with new machines and voters furiously demanded to know why so much had gone wrong in Georgia’s primaries on Tuesday, a potential preview of how the novel coronavirus pandemic and new voting technology could affect the presidential election in November.Problems were concentrated in Atlanta and surrounding counties, where voters described standing in line for hours, with election officials...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis story was featured in Drop Me The Link, our one-story election newsletter. Lines snaked out the doors, poll workers struggled with new machines and voters furiously demanded to know why so much had gone wrong in Georgia’s primaries on Tuesday, a potential preview of how the novel coronavirus pandemic and new voting technology could affect the presidential election in November.Problems were concentrated in Atlanta and surrounding counties, where voters described standing in line for hours, with election officials...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareATLANTA — Republicans in six states won by President-elect Joe Biden held their own electoral college-style votes Monday for President Trump — hoping that future court decisions would throw out Biden's votes and count the GOP ones instead.These votes have no legal meaning, according to election law experts. The law only recognizes votes from electors chosen according to state law — which, in every one of these states, is the Democratic electors.But many Republicans who had been chosen to cast electoral votes for Trump...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareATLANTA — Republicans in six states won by President-elect Joe Biden held their own electoral college-style votes Monday for President Trump — hoping that future court decisions would throw out Biden's votes and count the GOP ones instead.These votes have no legal meaning, according to election law experts. The law only recognizes votes from electors chosen according to state law — which, in every one of these states, is the Democratic electors.But many Republicans who had been chosen to cast electoral votes for Trump...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareDALLAS, Georgia— Las fotos aparecieron en las redes sociales pocas horas después del inicio del primer día de clases: 80 adolescentes radiantes frente a la Secundaria Etowah, cerca de Atlanta, sin ningún cubreboca a la vista y con acaso 15 centímetros —olvídense de los dos metros recomendados— de distancia entre ellos.Amanda Seghetti, una madre de la zona, dijo que su grupo de padres en Facebook se puso al rojo vivo cuando fueron publicadas las fotos de los estudiantes de último año. Algunas personas opinaron que las...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareDALLAS, Georgia— Las fotos aparecieron en las redes sociales pocas horas después del inicio del primer día de clases: 80 adolescentes radiantes frente a la Secundaria Etowah, cerca de Atlanta, sin ningún cubreboca a la vista y con acaso 15 centímetros —olvídense de los dos metros recomendados— de distancia entre ellos.Amanda Seghetti, una madre de la zona, dijo que su grupo de padres en Facebook se puso al rojo vivo cuando fueron publicadas las fotos de los estudiantes de último año. Algunas personas opinaron que las...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareDALLAS, Ga. — The photos showed up on social media just hours into the first day of school: 80 beaming teens in front of Etowah High School near Atlanta, with not a mask on a single face and hardly six inches of distance between them — let alone the recommended six feet.Amanda Seghetti, a mom in the area, said her parent Facebook group lit up when the pictures of the seniors were posted. Some people thought the images were cute. Others freaked out. Seghetti was in the latter constituency.“It’s like they think they are...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareDALLAS, Ga. — The photos showed up on social media just hours into the first day of school: 80 beaming teens in front of Etowah High School near Atlanta, with not a mask on a single face and hardly six inches of distance between them — let alone the recommended six feet.Amanda Seghetti, a mom in the area, said her parent Facebook group lit up when the pictures of the seniors were posted. Some people thought the images were cute. Others freaked out. Seghetti was in the latter constituency.“It’s like they think they are...WW…