Election officials ensure safety as early voting ends in Georgia
EVANS, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Early voting has come to a close in Georgia, and now, we’re just four days away from the presidential election.
We’ve already seen a historic push for early voting this election cycle.
But when it comes to safety, there is still a lot of concern once people get to the polls.
Officials say they are taking every precaution they can to ensure election safety.
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Nancy Gay, executive director for Columbia County Board of Elections, says they have been working to make sure their poll workers and voters are safe.
“Luckily, in Columbia County, we are blessed to have a wonderful sheriff’s office who feels that it is in law that they are to provide a deputy at every precinct,” said Gay.
Gay says this is something they have been doing for years.
She also says they have backups in place.
IN RICHMOND COUNTY:
- Officials say 42% of eligible voters have voted, including advance and absentee.
“We’ve also worked with the sheriff’s office in obtaining some radios, just in case, only as a backup if the cell towers were to cellular service to be interrupted, because we still need a form of communication with our poll workers,” she said.
Cyber security is also on the top of mind for many voters, but Gay says they are prepared for that too.
“Nothing is connected to the Wi-Fi. The voting machines themselves, the BMDS and the printers, the only thing they’re connected to outside of each other is a power source, and then the tabulators, and the poll pads. They do run or use cellular data, but nothing is actually Wi-Fi connected,” said Gay.
She says if you are heading to the polls on election day, there are some things you need to keep in mind.
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“They need to go online to the ‘My Voter Page’ and review a sample ballot. There are some amendments on the ballot that they don’t know about. There’s an ESPLOST question that’s on the ballot that they probably don’t you know that they’re not familiar with,” said Gay.
Gay says to that is against the law to wear a campaign or candidate shirt and to pull your phone out while voting.
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