Charlie Pierce Esquire
Charlie Pierce Esquire

The ratf*cking of Georgia’s elections got a big boost on Friday when, as expected (from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)…

The Georgia Election Board’s Republican majority voted Friday to require a hand count of all ballots after polls close on election night, a new requirement that could delay results of the presidential race.

County election directors universally opposed the eleventh-hour counting mandate, saying it would undermine voter confidence in the election results. They said results will come in more slowly, ballot box seals would be broken and manual counts could be inaccurate.

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