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Democrat Warnock ‘very concerned’ about Georgia elections board ruling requiring hand-counting of ballots

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Notably, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in August called the then-proposal “misguided” and slammed the elections board members as “unelected bureaucrats who have never run an election and seem to reject the advice of anyone who ever has.”

“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry."
Robert Burns
 

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They should scrutinize each ballot carefully. Take 10 minutes with each one. You can never be too careful in Georgia.

(Meanwhile, my state will do things the old-fashioned way. By machine.)
 
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The Georgia secretary of state has a valid point - hand counts are notoriously unreliable, costly and time consuming. Five million by hand? Naw.

This is nothing but a setup for the Maga protests.
 
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The Georgia secretary of state has a valid point - hand counts are notoriously unreliable, costly and time consuming. Five million by hand? Naw.

This is nothing but a setup for the Maga protests.
Nonsense. Two separate hand counts are done and you verify one count with the other. Democrats have a long history of disagreeing with the results of elections and not recognizing a valid winner. This should help deal with that problem.
 
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Georgia Supreme Court finds MAGA-aligned election board exceeded its authority last year

The eight-justice court [unanimously!] rejected four rules imposed by the Republican-led board ahead of the 2024 election, upholding in part a lower court's decision.

The state Supreme Court declared four rules invalid, including one that required hand counts of ballots and one that required "reasonable" inquiries of elections before certifying results. However, the eight justices — seven of whom were appointed by Republican governors — deemed a rule requiring video surveillance of ballot drop boxes to be legal.
 
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