The Georgia State Election Board is set to vote on a controversial measure Friday that would require local precincts to conduct hand counts for the November election and confirm the figures match machine counts before certifying election results.
The proposed rule is one of several under consideration Friday as three Trump-approved Republican members – who have made up the board’s majority since May – continue to entertain a flurry of proposals to change the state’s election processes in the final months before November.
The Georgia Association of Voter Registration and Election Officials, a nonpartisan group of more than 500 Georgia officials and staff, expressed renewed concern in a Tuesday letter about many of the last-minute proposals.
The proposed hand-counting rule in particular could delay results, set fatigued employees up to fail, and “undermine the very confidence the rule’s author claims to seek,” according to the election officials.
