“A judge stopped a planned hand count of ballots on election night in Georgia, ruling Tuesday that it would create ‘administrative chaos’ if poll workers were required to handle millions of ballots without being trained,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
“Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney put the State Election Board’s hand-count requirement on hold primarily because it was approved so close to Election Day. The manual review would have counted the number of ballots but not votes.”
New York Times: “The rule was one of many new election provisions approved in Georgia since summer that hewed closely to policy goals of right-wing election activists. It was a key achievement of the State Election Board, which has recently been governed by a 3-2 right-wing majority.”
