Fears of chaos as Georgia election board considers last-minute voting changes

20/09/2024 10:00 The Guardian

Republican majority eager for hand-counts of voting tallies, which experts say are time-consuming and unreliableThe Georgia state election board is set to meet on Friday and consider another round of last-minute election changes that could cause delays and confusion after election day in a critical battleground state.The Republican majority on the board is expected to approve a rule that would require three people in every precinct to check machine-vote tallies by hand-counting the election results. Voting experts have long warned that hand-counts are time consuming, costly, and less reliable than machines. It’s a process that nonetheless has been favored by conservative activists who doubt the results of the 2020 election. Continue reading...

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