Entire state of Georgia ordered to hand count PAPER BALLOTS on election day!

A big step toward a clean election. NYT unhappy. There would be machine ballots and paper ballots. Let's hope the twain shall meet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/us/elections/georgia-election-board-rules.html

An assistant AG (Recall that Brad Raffensperger is Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State who is exceedingly controversial) claimed this rule is not “tethered to statute,” foreshadowing a lawsuit brought by Brad’s office or the A-G. Were paper ballots tethered to statute before there were electronic voting machines.

Please don’t “Help America Vote” [Act] with easily hacked machines. It’s important to have elections the populations trusts. Paper ballots all the way!

And did you see how one country is not going to use [stuffable] external ballot boxes, saying they cannot man the boxes 24/7 for weeks before the election to insure their integrity? Another good move.

From the Times:

Last month, the board passed a rule upending decades of settled Georgia law, allowing local election officials to conduct a “reasonable inquiry” investigation before certifying election results, a rule Democrats and election experts said could disrupt the certification process.

The board also approved an investigation into the 2020 election in Fulton County, long a desire of right-wing election conspiracy theorists but far from the list of priorities of local election officials or the secretary of state.