Exit polls from the Secretary of State indicate more than 2-million Georgians voted on Super Tuesday 2008. The higher than expected turnout could be an indicator of what's to come this November. And that has some election officials concerned because, in some precincts the waiting time exceeded two hours. That's due in part to a shortage of "techno" savvy polls workers faced for the first time with a completely automated balloting procedure.
Claire Schexnyder is with Georgia Election Protection. Her group is working with several metro-Atlanta counties to recruit computer literate poll workers ahead of November's race.
"The ballot is going to be much longer in November. And, if we have a slow computerized check in process, the lines will be that much longer. So, anything we can do to have more computer savvy poll workers, the better."Georgia was the first state in the country to fully switch to computer balloting. However, concerns over touch screen computers continue. In March of this year, a group known as VoterGA filed a lawsuit to ban electronic voting machines in Georgia.
