{"id":206043,"date":"2024-09-20T15:24:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T19:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=206043"},"modified":"2024-09-20T15:24:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T19:24:44","slug":"georgias-state-election-board-approves-controversial-hand-count-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=206043","title":{"rendered":"Georgia&#8217;s State Election Board Approves Controversial Hand-Count Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Georgia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/government\/your-vote\/georgia-elections-chief-calls-state-election-board-unelected-bureaucrats-who-have-never-run-an-election\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"203630\">State Election Board<\/a> voted on Friday to implement a new rule requiring poll workers to manually count paper ballots at each precinct, despite objections from top state officials. The decision was passed by a 3-2 vote, overruling advice from the state attorney general\u2019s office, the secretary of state, and county election officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd0d <strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The new regulation mandates that poll workers at each precinct count the number of paper ballots\u2014three separate times\u2014until all counts match.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the ballot scanners have more than 750 ballots at the end of voting, the poll manager may delay the count until the next day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The rule doesn\u2019t require counting the actual votes by hand, just the number of ballots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 <strong>Between the Lines:<\/strong> The rule is likely to face legal challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>According to the Georgia attorney general\u2019s office, there\u2019s no law in the state that permits the hand-counting of ballots before they are submitted for vote tallying.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The rule may be considered an overreach by the board, as it\u2019s seen as &#8220;impermissible legislation&#8221; that could violate state law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2696\ufe0f <strong>The Big Picture:<\/strong> This decision may be seen as politically charged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>All three members who voted for the rule were praised by former President Donald Trump during a rally in <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Atlanta\"   title=\"Atlanta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"85\">Atlanta<\/a> last month, a nod to ongoing disputes over the 2020 election process.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Election officials in Georgia, particularly in rural counties, worry this new rule could delay results and add unnecessary pressure to already overworked poll workers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Georgia&#8217;s election system, already under a microscope due to national attention in recent election cycles, is once again in the crosshairs with a rule that many argue could create more chaos than clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia&#8217;s State Election Board voted on Friday to implement a new rule requiring poll workers to manually count paper ballots at each precinct, despite objections from top state officials. The decision was passed by a 3-2 vote, overruling advice from the state attorney general\u2019s office, the secretary of state, and county election officials. \ud83d\udd0d What&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15957],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-your-vote","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}