Georgia Democrats are calling for Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel to extend advanced voting on Saturday and Sunday after computer glitches caused a reported 500 people to wait two hours in line at a Fulton County polling place.
 
State Rep.-elect Rashad Taylor, D-Atlanta, says poll workers at the Adamsville Recreation Center in Southwest Atlanta told him voter check-in machines couldn’t access the Secretary of State’s system shortly after 7 p.m. on Thursday night. When he arrived at the rec center to assist poll workers, Taylor — who was joined by Atlanta City Council President Lisa Borders, Councilmember C.T. Martin and City Council Clerk Rhonda Johnson — says he saw an estimated 500 people still waiting to cast ballots.
 
“A few days ago, there was a problem connecting to the system,” the representative-elect says. “This time, there was a problem with the system.”
 
 
The AJC’s Marcus Garner talked with Handel spokesman Matt Carrothers:
 
“What appears to have caused this was when one of the computers at the location would time out, it would have problems reconnecting with the state voter registration system,” Carrothers said. “We’re not sure why the computers would’ve been timing out when there were people still in line.”
 
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