The Atlanta judge also ruled the passage of the new rule was too close in time to Election Day.
An Atlanta judge has blocked a new rule that would have required Georgia ballots cast in this election to be counted by hand.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote that voters still have a memory of the January 6 riot at the Capitol, in which former President Donald Trump's supporters tried to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's election win.
A rule that introduces a new and substantive role on the eve of election for more than 7,500 poll workers who will not have received any formal, cohesive, or consistent training and that allows for our paper ballots—the only tangible proof of who voted for whom—to be handled multiple times by multiple people following an exhausting Election Day all before they are securely transported to the official tabulation center does not contribute to lessening the tension or boosting the confidence of...
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