Trump-aligned state election board has passed a suite of rules that experts say will lead to confusion and errors
to require all counties to perform a hand count of ballots cast on election day to check the machine tabulations.a pro-Trump majority has blitzed through in recent months that observers worry could cause confusion and open the door to undermining the election results.
The rule only applies to ballots cast on election day. The state board of elections voted to put off considering a similar rule that would apply to early votes.Election officials across the state and voting rights groups have almost universally opposed the rule. They say that it is unnecessary, will delay the reporting of election results and opens the door to confusion and misinformation after voting has concluded.
Polls in Georgia close at 7pm local time on election night and a new law in Georgia requires counties to report their early and mail-in votes by 8pm. But the hand count rule could mean that counties don’t report their election day votes until much later in the evening, leaving a lot of uncertainty about what’s going on, said Travis Doss, the executive director of the board of elections in Richmond county, Georgia.
There’s the potential of it being perceived that the votes are not secure or not being accurate because of a potential delay The rule will likely result in a delay of reporting from smaller counties, who may not have the resources to have “runners” take memory cards from ballot scanners and bring them back to the central office for reporting soon after the polls close.
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