A Georgia judge ruled that a rule to hand count ballots on election night was 'too much, too late' to implement for this year's election, just weeks away.
A Georgia judge stopped a planned hand count of ballots on election night, ruling Tuesday that it would create 'administrative chaos' if poll workers were required to handle millions of ballots without being trained. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney found that the controversial rule was 'too much, too late' to implement for the 2024 election – which is less than three weeks away.
The rule would have required precinct poll managers and poll officers to unseal ballot boxes and count the ballots by hand individually to ensure the tallies match the machine-counted ballot totals. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
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