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Politics Chat: Was Tuesday's Georgia Primary Debacle A Harbinger Of Nationwide Problems?

91.7 WVXU | By Howard Wilkinson
Published June 12, 2020 at 8:00 AM EDT
A woman reads as she waits in line to vote, Tuesday, June 9, 2020, in Atlanta. She told AP she had been in line for almost two hours.
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A woman reads as she waits in line to vote, Tuesday, June 9, 2020, in Atlanta. She told AP she had been in line for almost two hours.

The long lines and mechanical breakdowns in some major counties of Georgia during the Tuesday primary has Democrats and voter rights activists suspecting the GOP of voter suppression, a charge the Republican state leaders deny. 

But is is fair to ask if the problems Georgia encountered will be a preview of chaos and voter suppression allegations in November?

WVXU's Senior Political Analyst Howard Wilkinson spoke with News Director Maryanne Zeleznik about what problems may be lurking out there for the November election.

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Howard Wilkinson
Howard Wilkinson joined the WVXU News Team after 30 years of covering local and state politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Wilkinson has covered every Ohio governor’s race since 1974 as well as 12 presidential nominating conventions. His streak continued by covering both the 2012 Republican and Democratic conventions for 91.7 WVXU. Along with politics, Wilkinson also covered the 2001 Cincinnati race riots; the Lucasville Prison riot in 1993; the Air Canada plane crash at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1983; and the 1997 Ohio River flooding. The Cincinnati Reds are his passion. "I've been listening to WVXU and public radio for many years, and I couldn't be more pleased at the opportunity to be part of it,” he says.
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