Republican majority eager for hand-counts of voting tallies, which experts say are time-consuming and unreliable

The Georgia state election board is set to meet on Friday and consider another round of last-minute election changes that could cause delays and confusion after election day in a critical battleground state.

The Republican majority on the board is expected to approve 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.

The board will also consider proposed rules that would mandate daily hand-counts of early votes, require public reports of voters who have cast a ballot during early voting, allow for greater poll-watcher access during tabulation, distinguish emergency and mail-in ballots, and require that ballots be tracked through the mail.


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  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
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    12 hours ago

    It is a sad state of affairs that as an American, I have to click the article to see “Which Georgia”

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        10 hours ago

        They definitely aren’t. They just passed an anti-lgbt bill and the next day a well known trans woman was stabbed to death.