Tech problems stymie Redondo voters
Lines of voters stretch into the parking lot at the Redondo Beach North Branch Library. Photo At some polling locations across Redondo, voting was a trial of endurance on Super Tuesday, California’s primary election day. Voters at the Redondo Beach North Branch Library were in a line that stretched well outside of the building’s doors and into the jam-packed parking lot, where voters would be forced to step back to allow cars into parking spaces. “[Monday], all day, we had 500 voters,” said poll worker Priscilla Atwell. “We had 500 people between 11 and 1 today.” Atwell was directing traffic and managing the lines throughout the day as poll workers tried to keep voters out of the sun and bring relief to voters who were physically unable to stand in line while waiting to cast their ballot. The library’s community room was a hugely popular voting site throughout the day, but the room’s size constrained its utility — only 10 of LA County’s voting machines, rolled out for the first time with this election, could run in the room. The new system introduced electronic voting machines and computerized check-in systems that accessed the complete voter roll database, allowing voters…
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