Primary chaos puts Georgia in race to fix voting by November

Voters wait in line before voting at the Park Tavern polling place in Atlanta on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

ATLANTA — Coronavirus infections sidelined some poll workers and scared away others. New workers were trained online instead of in person. And when Election Day arrived, trouble with new voting equipment and social-distancing precautions forced voters to wait in long lines, sometimes for hours.