Georgia judge blocks ‘chaotic’ rule mandating hand count of votes
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney has struck down a Georgia election rule requiring poll workers to conduct a hand count of all votes to ensure the tally matched that of electronic voting machines.
The hand-count rule was set to go into effect on Oct. 22, a week after early voting had started in Georgia.
McBurney said the hand-count rule was “too much, too late” to add to the 2024 election process but said he would still weigh the merits of the proposal for future elections.
It was proposed by allies of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Georgia state Sen. Nabilah Islam Parkes called the rule “chaotic” and denounced the state’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp for failing to investigate Trump-aligned Election Board members who pushed for the ordinance.
Amanda Carpenter of the nonprofit advocacy group Protect Democracy said demands for hand counts are “typically based on baseless conspiracies about voting machines, and intended to disrupt the voting process.”
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