The key battleground state of Georgia’s election board voted Friday to force ballots to be hand-counted three times before a result is declared.
As one of multiple motions on changing how elections are run, less than 50 days out from the November 5 election, the new rule was passed 3-2 by the conservative-leaning panel.
The changes come after Donald Trump heavily criticized the way the state handled the 2020 election results, repeatedly and falsely claiming he won the state.
President Joe Biden narrowly won in Georgia, with 49.5 percent of the vote against Trump’s 49.2 percent.
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Critics have claimed the board, which has swung more to the right, is trying to rewrite the rules to favor former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump.
In a letter Thursday, the office of Georgia’s Attorney General issued a warning that the board was pushing rules that “very likely exceed the board’s statutory authority”, while voting rights groups had also raised concerns.
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Yes, they’re effectively saying that they don’t want their state’s results to be counted. No, it’s not an admission of defeat. Instead, it’s manufacturing justification for another coup.
I think their primary goal now is to throw the election to the house. This is part of that plan.
They think they can’t win the electoral college even with their structural advantages?
Yup. They’ve been a minority party for a long time and their staunchest supporters are more dying of old age and preventable disease.
Yeah at this point they literally cannot win a fair national election. They have to put their thumb on the scale to even have a chance at winning. Every cycle that becomes harder and harder to pull off. The only longterm survival plan the GOP has is “authoritarian state”.