Democrats took control of the House of Representatives while Republicans are forecast to increase their majority in the Senate in the midterm elections.1 In Georgia, where 670,000 voter registrations were canceled in 2017, 53,000 registrations of predominantly black voters were put on hold a month prior to the election; there were voting machine shortages in three counties as a result of hundreds of machines being sequestered by local officials as part of a lawsuit alleging they were vulnerable to being hacked, and voters in Gwinnett County waited up to four hours to vote because of malfunctioning equipment.
Weekly Review
Weekly Review
Weekly Review
Democrats took control of the House of Representatives while Republicans are forecast to increase their majority in the Senate in the midterm elections.1 In Georgia, where 670,000 voter registrations were canceled in 2017, 53,000 registrations of predominantly black voters were put on hold a month prior to the election; there were voting machine shortages in three counties as a result of hundreds of machines being sequestered by local officials as part of a lawsuit alleging they were vulnerable to being hacked, and voters in Gwinnett County waited up to four hours to vote because of malfunctioning equipment.