Judge Blocks Hand-Counting of Election Ballots in Georgia

 (AuntBB has an election coming this week and they have new scanner machines. I wonder if hand counting for verification will be allowed there. But it's a 'conspiracy theory' to claim elections are rigged in America with these things, right?)

from the NYT

A county judge in Georgia on Tuesday blocked a new rule mandating a hand count of election ballots across the state. Enacting such a sweeping change for the November election, he said, was “too much, too late.”

Judge Robert C.I. McBurney did not, however, knock down the rule outright; his decision was confined to the current election, halting the rule from taking effect for 2024 while he further weighs its merits.

The rule, passed last month by the State Election Board, would have required poll workers across Georgia to break open sealed containers of ballots and count them by hand to ensure that the total number of ballots matched the total counted by tabulating machines. (It would not have required officials to tally for whom the ballots were cast.)...

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(That's right. It's against the law in YET ANOTHER STATE to try to verify the electronic voting results)