For example, it’s really hard to read yet another national take on what went wrong in Georgia’s primary election (that’s also way off base!) that doesn’t cite a single story from the months of lead-up reporting on problems/struggles that GPB/the AJC did on this issue! https://twitter.com/stphnfwlr/status/1287006308084973571

And, the national story is contradicted by the reporting by people who live here and cover this on a daily basis!

For ex: Likely only way anyone would have known about Park Tavern ahead of time is from us.

Fulton’s elex director didn’t realize how big it was until we called.

What actually happened at park tavern? A ton of people showed up before polls open. Having 10 scanners instead of one can’t undo that level of throughput bottleneck.

https://twitter.com/stphnfwlr/status/1284879706416963585?s=21 https://twitter.com/stphnfwlr/status/1284879706416963585

Like, the whole lede anecdote to this NYT story is not factually correct based on a) how the state’s voting system works and b) what the actual data from the election says.

https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/07/22/hourly-voting-data-shows-where-georgias-process-failed-and-flourished

Here’s an excerpt of a memo the state sent to counties about the primary. If one ballot is scanned every 25 seconds, that’s ~1,725 voters from 7a-7p with just one scanner.

That’s not practical or likely at most polling places, but still, the scanner isn’t the holdup.

Anyways, read the New York Times article, fine — but don’t stop there.

If you actually want to know what happened in Georgia and what people can do to fix it, support your local journalists who tell the stories that get rewritten into the big national pieces.