County election officials put problem-plagued primary in past, as early voting starts in Georgia

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County election officials put problem-plagued primary in past, as early voting starts in Georgia
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'If you can find the silver lining in what COVID has done for elections, it has made more organizations and individuals aware of the need for poll officials.'

"All of our workers are trained, all the early voting sites are set up, so we'll be ready to open on Monday morning and serve the voters," said Rick Barron, director of elections and registration for Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia and home to most of Atlanta.Since the primary, county election officials have resumed in person poll worker trainings, now better equipped to operate in a world where dealing with coronavirus safety precautions is the norm.

After the presidential primary was postponed twice, and the state primary was postponed once, counties faced poll worker shortages, and training -- especially in person -- either didn't happen at all or wasn't up to par, an issue exacerbated by the fact that a brand new voting machine system was implemented for the 2020 election cycle.

MORE: Trump delivers brief speech to supporters at White House in 1st in-person event since COVID-19 diagnosis "One thing all election administrators hope everyone would remember is there was a lot thrown at us heading into that primary," she said."It wasn't that things were changing day to day. It was changing hour to hour."Poll workers Annette Reynolds, Perry Neal and Annette Moses pack up voting machines at an early voting location in Dekalb County for the upcoming presidential elections in Chamblee, Ga., Oct. 9, 2020.

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