Fox News: Georgia judge blocks rule requiring clerks to hand count number of ballots

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Georgia judge blocks rule requiring clerks to hand count number of ballots

A Georgia judge ruled that a rule to hand count ballots on election night was "too much, too late" to implement for this year's election, just weeks away.......                    ...                        ...A Georgia judge stopped a planned hand count of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login ruling Tuesday that it would create "administrative chaos" if poll workers were required to handle millions of ballots without being trained.......Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney found that the controversial rule was "too much, too late" to implement for the 2024 election – which is less than three weeks away......."The public interest is not disserved by pressing pause here," he wrote in his decision. "This election season is fraught; You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login have not faded away, regardless of one's view of that date's fame or infamy. Anything that adds uncertainty and disorder to the electoral process disserves the public."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......McBurney said in his ruling that his decision was not final and would be further detailed at a later date, but not until after the election......."Our Boards of Election and Superintendents are statutorily obligated to ensure that elections are 'honestly, efficiently, and uniformly conducted,'" he said. "Failure to comply with statutory obligations such as these can result in investigation by the SEB, suspension or even criminal prosecution."......READ THE RULING – You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The rule, passed by the Republican State Election Board, was set to go into effect Oct. 22, just two weeks before the election, and after early voting in the Peach State is well underway.  ......The rule, which McBurney temporarily halted, was pushed through in September on a 3-2 vote but prompted a lawsuit filed by Georgia Democratic officials.......The rule would have required precinct poll managers and poll officers to unseal ballot boxes and count the ballots by hand individually to ensure the tallies match the machine-counted ballot totals.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login....

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