Posted on 03/30/2026 8:40:20 AM PDT by Twotone
Three weeks after the Georgia Senate failed to pass a bill requiring hand-marked ballots for the November elections, a revamped House bill with the same requirement was approved.
In its original form, House Bill 960 would have added a 12th Superior Court judge to the Gwinnett Judicial Circuit.
The amended bill presented by Sen. Greg Dolezal, R-Cumming, on Friday contained some of the same language as Senate Bill 568, which failed on crossover day. House Bill 960 still requires hand-marked ballots for the November 2026 general election and requires a manual recount of some elections.
The new version reduces the $10,000 fine that election boards were facing for each ineligible voter to $100.
Election officials will also be required to have preprinted ballots at each voting location and publish a voter turnout list by 11:59 p.m. on Election Night.
Senate Minority Whip Kim Jackson of Stone Mountain said preprinted ballots would be a challenge in DeKalb County.
"We have 400 different ballot styles," Jackson said. "So what this bill requires DeKalb County to do, with no funding to help with that by the way, is to make sure that all 432 permutations of our ballots are on location at every single voting and every single early voting location. We have built in all kind of opportunity for human error, not alone, the major security risks and concerns that I have when you have thousands and thousands of pre-printed ballots sitting in someone's fellowship hall."
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The Democrat Party understands that elections are too important to be left in the hands of the voters.
Finally! Trump must be signaling under the table that he’s going to issue a national emergency order.
“”” requires hand-marked ballots for the November 2026 general election and requires a manual recount of some elections.”””
This will put an end to electronic voting machines. Let’s hope the GA House and Gov agree and it becomes law.
“””Senate Minority Whip Kim Jackson of Stone Mountain said preprinted ballots would be a challenge in DeKalb County.
“We have 400 different ballot styles,” Jackson said.””””
It seems to be a little excessive to need more than 400 different ballot styles to cover the local elections within one county.
In my FL county we have maybe 10 or so ballot styles to cover local city and school districts.
That would be entirely welcome, of course.
At the same time, the Dems and their political allies, all of whom have sold out to the Left, will 24/7 relentlessly resist each and every step however modest taken by Rs to combat election fraud.
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