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Judge orders Georgia to have paper pollbook backups

by Associated Press
| September 28, 2020 1:03 PM

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge ruled on Monday that every polling place in Georgia must have at least one updated paper backup list of eligible voters to help keep long lines from forming on Election Day if electronic pollbooks used to check in voters malfunction.

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