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Fears of chaos as Georgia election board considers last-minute voting changes



Republican majority eager for hand-counts of voting tallies, which experts say are time-consuming and unreliableForty-six days before the election, Georgia’s state election board is considering new rules for poll managers, requiring a hand count of paper ballots on election day before tabulating votes.The Republican majority on the board is expected to vote on a rule that would require three people in every precinct to check machine-vote tallies by hand-counting the election results. Voting experts have long warned that hand-counts are time consuming, costly and less reliable than machines. It’s a process that nonetheless has been favored by conservative activists who doubt the results of the 2020 election. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/20/georgia-state-election-board-meeting

Author : Sam Levine and George Chidi

Publish date : 2024-09-20 15:14:12

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