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Georgia's Republican-controlled state election board voted on Friday to require a labor-intensive hand count of potentially millions of ballots in November's election, a move voting rights advocates say could cause delays, introduce errors and lay the groundwork for spurious election challenges.

The hand count rule, passed in a 3-2 vote, will make Georgia the only state in the U.S. to implement such a requirement as part of the normal process of tabulating results, according to Gowri Ramachandran, the director of elections and security at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice, a left-leaning public policy institute.

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[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 4 points 54 minutes ago

Next up: Republican politician complains about the cost efficiency of government.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 23 points 20 hours ago

The key detail is the seal on the ballot boxes - normally kept intact in case there needs to be a recount - will be broken immediately.

Post-poll ballot stuffing anyone? Well it just got a shit-ton easier. Thanks republiQan fuckwits!

[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 35 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

They are trying to set up another gore v. Bush Florida situation, where the election is ultimately decided but the corrupt Supreme court

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Roberys was on the Bush legal team for Bush vs. Gore and refused answer questions about the ruling during his confirmation hearings. In fact, three of the justices on the Supreme Court are Bush Vs Gore alumni, all for the Bush leagl team.

[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

now they are trump alumni.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 2 points 1 hour ago

I wasn't as clear as i wanted to be. Roberts refused to answer questions on the ruling because he believed a similar ruling would occur soon. He was put on the Supreme Court for this exact reason.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This from the people who's candidate argued that the election had to be decided on election night?

[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago

I would expect that is the point. Delay the result, then complain about the result taking forever and use that line of „reasoning“ to let the state government send electors.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

leave it to conservatives to force a solution to a problem that doesnt exist... creating a whole new set of problems. SOP

[–] socsa@piefed.social 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You are mistaken. The problem is that ballot stuffing in the US is hard. This solves that problem.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 4 points 12 hours ago

It's not just that ballot stuffing would be easier, but also that any kind of complications can lead to delays and court cases which might go to the supreme court, which has a history of deciding who the president will be. In other words, there are multiple advantages to the shady f*** heads.

[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

Then blame the left for the fallout from it all.

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

The party of fiscal responsibility really showing up!

We could have a machine count that is faster, cheaper, AND more accurate.... but let's spend millions of dollars to pay a whole bunch of people to slowly count millions of votes, some of whom might have political motivations to not be 100% accurate or who are, you know, humans who constantly make small mistakes when doing repetitive tasks.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 19 hours ago

its so rediculous how obvious they are and yet people still vote for this party or refuse to vote for the competition. Its not enough for them to lose at this point. they have to lose big and consistantly. I understand there are issues with our system but we have to at least retain the democracy we have while we get these folks out of the system entirely.

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

Georgia has almost 7.6 million eligible voters Source

So Georgia is gonna hand count. Riiight. 🙄

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

There are 7.6 million voters in Georgia. I think your copy paste got messed up somehow

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago

Yeah. I screwed up. Fixed now.

[–] hyperreal@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The quote you chose from that source is a bit misleading. 7.6 million voting eligible people in Georgia. Still an insane amount of votes to count.

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago

My bad. Thanks for the correction.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Gonna hand count trumps loss twice

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Donald Trump: It took 12 days to count in Metro Atlanta by a bunch of Trump hating liberals. Rigged!!!!!!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

More like "Atlanta took too long to count its votes so they all need to be thrown out."

[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

I'm sure that local elections and ballot measures will be given the same level of scrutiny as the votes for federal elections.

State senate, state Supreme Court, various judges, school boards, etc. They'll all be treated fairly and closely monitored and verified for accuracy.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

This is going to take a long time and plenty of time for MAGA people to screw it up.