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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said in an Aug. 15 statement that having polling locations hand-count ballots jeopardizes ballot security and risks dangerous delays.
The Georgia State Election Board on Friday voted 3-2 to require counties to hand-count ballots cast on Election Day, a move that could drastically lengthen the amount of time to tally results in a ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's State Election Board on Friday voted to approve a new rule that requires poll workers to count the number of paper ballots by hand. The board voted 3-2 to approve the rule, going against the advice of the state attorney general's office, the secretary of state's office and an association of county election officials.
In a memo sent to election board members Thursday, the office of state Attorney General Chris Carr said no provision in state law allows hand counting of ballots at precincts. The memo says the rule is “not tethered to any statute” and is “likely the precise kind of impermissible legislation that agencies cannot do.”
(Reuters) -Georgia's Republican-controlled election board voted on Friday to require a labor-intensive hand count of potentially millions of ballots in November, a move voting rights advocates say ...
Guidelines from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission say “the total number of ballots cast should balance with the number of total voters processed at each polling place,” but they do not call for a hand count of ballots from a tabulator. The board also tabled until 2025 a proposal for a similar count at early in-person voting locations.
Georgia's secretary of state on Thursday came out against election rule changes pending before the State Election Board, specifically rejecting a proposal to count ballots by hand at polling ...
The Democratic National Committee sued the Georgia State Election Board Monday to try to block a recent ballot hand-counting rule slated for November.