Georgia Election Board Orders Hand-Counting of Ballots |Critics say the move could significantly delay the reporting of results in the battleground state and inject chaos into the post-election period

silence7@slrpnk.net · 20 hours ago

Georgia Election Board Orders Hand-Counting of Ballots |Critics say the move could significantly delay the reporting of results in the battleground state and inject chaos into the post-election period

bloodfart · 6 hours ago

I don’t buy that.

I know personally that election worker pay is dogshit. It’s way too cheap to do an election. Even if it weren’t, even if a person didn’t have my mistrust of machine voting, wouldn’t recognizing that the vote will likely be contested mean that going ahead and preparing to do a hand count anyway be the right choice?

I mean, we’re headed for hand counts in the future anyway because no one trusts the elections. Even if someone wasn’t a proponent of hand counts like me, isn’t it good to be ready?

What chaos that you talked about is gonna be brought on by this hand count? I can’t help but think that the whole election is chaotic…

silence7@slrpnk.net · 7 minutes ago

Pretty simple:

They require three people on each count. One is a Republican, one a Democrat, one an election worker
There isn’t money to hire election workers, so they can’t count the ballots fast
The Republicans are going to raise all sorts of random objections with no real basis
The slow counting in urban areas plus the spurious objections creates an excuse for local boards to refuse to certify the results
This in turn means no EVs from Georgia, so the election gets tossed to the house

Georgia Election Board Orders Hand-Counting of Ballots |Critics say the move could significantly delay the reporting of results in the battleground state and inject chaos into the post-election period

Georgia Election Board Orders Hand-Counting of Ballots |Critics say the move could significantly delay the reporting of results in the battleground state and inject chaos into the post-election period

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