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The Georgia election board is considering 11 change proposals brought by state Republicans, including hand-counting ballots and introducing something called "absentee ballot tracking," just one month before early voting begins in the state.
The board, with a new right-wing majority, is set to consider new election rules just 45 days before the election.
The Georgia Election Board ruled on Friday that ballots must be hand-counted by local precincts despite concerns from election officials and opposition from some state officials. The Georgia
Less than two months before the election, the Trump-aligned majority on the Georgia State Election Board passed a new set of eleventh-hour rule changes on Friday that could plunge the vote counting process into chaos and give Republicans yet another pretext not to certify the results if Kamala Harris wins the state.
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Georgia's Republican-controlled state election board may vote 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,
Among the new rules, election workers will hand count ballots on Election Night, potentially delaying the swing state's results.
The Georgia State Election Board is set to vote on a controversial measure Friday that would require local precincts to conduct hand counts.
The state election board was recently taken over by a conservative majority. Its latest proposals are dangerously late in the process and most likely illegal, according to the secretary of state.