The Georgia State Election Board (GSEB) has voted to approve the hand-counting of ballots for the upcoming presidential election in November.
During a Sept. 20 meeting, the board voted 3-2 in favor of a motion to require local precincts to hand-count paper ballots. According to InfoWars, the motion seeks to ensure votes cast on paper match the tallies from electronic voting machines.
The requirement in the Peach State, which has been at the heart of several election-related scandals, was lauded by Republicans. It mandates poll workers to open up ballot boxes and count the ballots by hand at the end of the night.
However Georgia Democrats denounced it as something that could dramatically extend the amount of time to tally results. The Georgia Association of Voter Registration and Election Officials even implied the decision to confirm the results will in some way "undermine" the people's "confidence" in the voting system. (Related: Notes from Georgia election official reveal 'massive' number of election integrity issues despite claims of safe and secure balloting.)
GSEB Chairman John Fervier, a Republican appointed by Georgia's GOP Gov. Brian Kemp, broke ranks with the party and voted against the measure. The five-member board is dominated by the GOP, with board member Sara Tindall Ghazal being the lone Democrat. Just like Fervier, she also voted against the hand-counting mandate – echoing her party's stance on the matter.
The rule requires election workers to count the number of ballots, not every vote on the ballot. Despite this, election officials are still concerned about the consequences.
"Hand-counting ballots has got the attention of many conservatives in the past few years in reply to claims about hacked voting machines, in spite of claims that counting by hand was more expensive and less accurate than using ballot tabulators," NBC News reported.
According to the outlet, officials in Mohave County, Arizona last year tried out hand-counting the votes and they discovered that it took staff members three minutes to count a single ballot besides making usual errors.
Raffensperger opposes hand-counting rule
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger also opposed the hand-counting of ballots, calling it a "bad idea." The GOP official who pushed back against Trump's request to further investigate the state's 2020 presidential election results had earlier warned that the rule could cause "chaos," despite its overarching goal of upholding election integrity.
"We consider these major changes to the election process. I guess we have several concerns. No. 1 is the actual counting of the number of ballots that you have at the precinct. That's going to take time," he told NBC News on Sept. 19.
"Everything that we've done for the last six years has been to speed up the process to give the voters the results quicker, and all of a sudden now they’re adding an element that it’s actually going to take longer."
Raffensperger issued a statement after the Sept. 20 vote, claiming that Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has stated that "these rules would not withstand a legal challenge." But GSEB board member Janelle King, one of the three who voted in favor of the hand-counting rule, pointed out that the secretary of state's worries were overblown.
"I do not have those concerns at all. I think it's actually going to be the reverse," she said. "We won't have a situation where we have any candidates saying that they think the count is off or they want an audit because something went wrong. We would have caught it at an early stage."
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