Pelosi Calls Georgia Election Debacle a ‘Disgrace’ and ‘Shameful’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is voicing her outrage over reports of voters waiting in lines for hours in Georgia to cast their ballots in that state’s primaries which took place on Tuesday. “What we saw in…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is voicing her outrage over reports of voters waiting in lines for hours in Georgia to cast their ballots in that state’s primaries which took place on Tuesday.
“What we saw in Georgia the other day was shameful,” Pelosi said during her press conference on Thursday.
“It was either a disgrace of incompetence or a disgrace of intention to suppress the vote,” she added.
Pelosi went to list a series of issues she says are hindering elections and the results of the elections such as “manipulation of the social media, obstacles to participation, suppression of the vote.”
“All part of the Republican playbook, because they’re afraid of the voters,” Pelosi added as she suggested that Republican officials in Georgia took steps to suppress voter turnout in certain neighborhoods intentionally.
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The Washington Post reports that local officials and election advocates warned Georgia’s top officials that a combination of poor training on new voting machines and fewer polling locations due to the coronavirus could lead to long wait times.
Since the primaries took place, officials have spoken out to say that their warnings went unheeded.
Some have argued that Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) intentionally did not take action to address the warnings to suppress minorities in a bid to help Republican candidates.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton