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Saturday, September 21, 2024

Fears of chaos as Georgia election board considers last-minute voting changes | US elections 2024 | The Guardian

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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