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.
leave it to conservatives to force a solution to a problem that doesnt exist… creating a whole new set of problems. SOP
You are mistaken. The problem is that ballot stuffing in the US is hard. This solves that problem.
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.
They are trying to set up another gore v. Bush Florida situation, where the election is ultimately decided but the corrupt Supreme court
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.
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.
This from the people who’s candidate argued that the election had to be decided on election night?
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!
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.
