⁍ After messy primaries marred by long lines and chaos earlier this year, Wisconsin and Georgia held another round of elections on Tuesday.

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⁍ Neither Georgia nor Wisconsin saw a widespread repeat of the long voter lines and multi-hour waits that were prevalent earlier in the year.

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⁍ But there were enough problems to sow doubts about the hurdles voters might face when they try to cast ballots on Nov. 3 amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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– Voting rights advocates say Tuesday’s primaries in Georgia and Wisconsin are a step in the right direction after months of chaos. But they say there are still plenty of issues to work through before the November election, including problems with voting machines and absentee ballots, Reuters reports. “This is what voting looks like in a pandemic,” says Gabriel Sterling, voting implementation manager for the Georgia Secretary of State. “This is another opportunity to learn so we can do better on November 3.” Voting rights advocates in both states say there were still problems with voters requesting absentee ballots but never receiving them—a common complaint in many states. In Georgia, where problems with new voting machines contributed to the mess in June, hundreds of technicians were trained on the machines and assigned to polling sites in the biggest counties. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s biggest city, polling stations jumped from five in the April 7 primary to 168. In Georgia’s Fulton County, home to Atlanta and site of the biggest delays in the June 9 primary, polling sites rose from 164 in June to 174 in August. Election officials in Wisconsin and Georgia, both political battleground states that will be crucial in the November 3 presidential election, increased the number of polling sites on Tuesday in areas that saw most of the earlier problems. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s biggest city, polling stations jumped from five in the April 7 primary to 168. In Georgia, where problems with new voting machines contributed to the mess in June, hundreds of technicians were trained on the machines and assigned to polling sites in the biggest counties.