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A judge in Georgia has paused a new rule from the Georgia State Election Board that would have required officials to hand-count the number of ballots cast at each polling place, criticizing state ...
Early in-person voting began in Georgia on Tuesday, marking some of the earliest votes cast in the U.S. for the 2024 presidential election. Officials with the Georgia Secretary of State's Office ...
The hand-count rule was passed on Sept. 20 by a pro-Trump conservative majority of Georgia's election board, who said they were attempting to make the Nov. 5 election more secure and transparent.
That is the ballot that the voter puts into a scanner, which records the votes. The hand-count would be of the paper ballots — not the votes. Critics, including many county election officials, argued that a hand-count could slow the reporting of election results and put an extra burden on poll workers at the end of an already long day.
A controversial rule passed by the Georgia State Election Board on Friday will require all of the state's voting precincts to hand-count ballots and ensure the tallies match machine counts before ...
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.
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 ...
In early 2023, Georgia's state legislature denied the Georgia Secretary of State's $25 million request to implement the 2022 security update for Dominion Voting Systems machines before the 2024 elections. However, QR codes will be eliminated by 2026 in favor of text the voter can read to ensure their ballot was marked correctly.