This year's election has stirred up questions of voting rights and access for all races in Georgia and activists are taking a stand. They have claimed that some 100,000 voter-registration applications have not been registered and the one site that provided early voting involved waiting in a line for hours in order to place your vote. Hurricane Matthew caused a major setback in the lives of potential voters, making it hard to make the trip down to the polls. American Civil Liberties Union had a lawsuit filed in order to have the registration deadline extended for the victims of the hurricane; this then resulted in a series of arguments and accusations through social media (mostly Twitter). There was also some controversy about the evaluation of the voter's information, such as social security, license information, etc, being so detailed that "a hyphen out of place would result in the refusal of that vote until they fixed that information to it corresponded correctly". This resulted in a huge amount of citizens, the majority of whom were black, having to go back after the information was fixed and wait in that long line in order to vote.
All of these inconveniences led citizens to question the legitimacy of the electoral system. The huge increase in population in Georgia is the main source of all of the conflicts in the voting process. The sites weren't accustomed to that large of an influx of people and there were far too little voting sites available. There should be accounts of population beforehand and they should be taken in consideration when planning voting sites and registration of information. I believe the victims of Hurricane Matthew should receive more time and convenience to be able to complete their right to vote, this being the least the government can do to help.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/growing-conflict-over-voting-rights-in-georgia-where-the-presidential-race-is-tightening/2016/10/24/2e9d2caa-84e6-11e6-a3ef-f35afb41797f_story.html
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