ticket stuff than vote down the bottom. people run out of steam and stop filling out the bubbles as they go down their ballot. that s almost always how it goes. that s not what happened in georgia last year. of all the races on the ticket, fewer people voted for lieutenant governor, secretary race on the ballot than any other race. by a lot. what was going on? around 80,000 fewer people voted in the lieutenant governor race than in other races even further down the ballot like votes for labor commissioner. more people voted for labor commissioner than lieutenant governor, the number two elected official? that s weird. that drop-off in the lieutenant governor race vote has been a mystery since november 2018. it led reporters to try to figure out why and how that happened in georgia. today we got this from the atlanta constitution. they looked at one precinct that had seven voting machines.
race on the ballot than any other race. by a lot. what was going on? around 80,000 fewer people voted in the lieutenant governor race than in other races even further down the ballot like votes for labor commissioner. more people voted for labor commissioner than lieutenant governor, the number two elected official? that s weird. that drop-off in the lieutenant governor race vote has been a mystery since november 2018. it led reporters to try to figure out why and how that happened in georgia. today we got this from the atlanta constitution. they looked at one precinct that had seven voting machines. in that precinct the democrat won every single race on every single machine except for one machine. quote, to find out a clue to find a clue about what might have gone wrong, look no further than voting machine number three at the winterville train depot