Posted on 09/20/2024 3:18:05 PM PDT by bitt
The Georgia State Election Board passed a rule on Friday requiring precincts to hand-count ballots for the November election and ensure the tallies match the machine count before election certification.
The board voted 3-2 to pass the rule, The Guardian reported. The hand count only applies to election night, not early voting. The board voted 4-1 to table a proposal on hand-counting during early voting after a board member was concerned about information leaking regarding election tallies before all results are counted.
The Georgia Association of Voter Registration and Election Officials, a group of more than 500 Georgia officials and staff, sent a letter to the board on Tuesday, advising against the adoption of the hand-count rule.
The group warned of "the rule’s potential to delay results; set fatigued employees up for failure; and undermine the very confidence the rule’s author claims to seek," according to the letter.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) on Thursday said that the rule would cause delays at the state's 2,400 precincts that would impact when election results are announced, according to USA Today.
"Ninety days before an election, you should not institute major changes to the election process," Raffensperger said. "The more moving parts you have, the more chance you have to fail."
The Georgia attorney general's office had previously told the board that the rule was likely illegal, per The Guardian.
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My, my.
Raffensperger squawks like a plucked chicken.
Must be terrified of what his overseers will do to him now.
Of course the ballots will tally, legitimate and not.
Thank You, I wanted to post this article but you did it for me. I was thinking that the Dems do not want an immediate hand recount so they can backfill the paper ballots in the dead of night to match their fraudulent electronic tally.
Frankly, I’d rather that elections officials NOT be able to handle/count mailed in ballots before the election.
“Ninety days before an election, you should not institute major changes to the election process,” Raffensperger said. “The more moving parts you have, the more chance you have to fail.”
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We remember TRAITOR Raffensperger when 90 days was just fine with you, you POS:
“In the months before the November 3, 2020 election, and without notice to or permission from the State legislature, Georgia election officials committed acts that were contrary to Georgia statutory law. These acts described below usurped the plenary power granted by the U. S. Constitution to the Georgia legislature to prescribe the manner of elections held for federal officials in Georgia. U.S. Const., Art. 1, § 4, cl. 1.
First, on March 6, 2020, in Democratic Party of Georgia v. Raffensperger, No. 1:19-cv-5028-WMR (N.D. Ga.), Georgia’s Secretary of State and the members
of the State Election Board (hereafter collectively “Board”) entered into a Compromise Settlement Agreement and Release (“Settlement”) with the Democratic Party of Georgia, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that materially altered the statutory requirements for reviewing and verifying signatures on absentee- ballot envelopes to confirm the voter’s identity. The Settlement provided that the Secretary of State would issue an “Official Election Bulletin” to county administrators overriding the statutory procedures, set forth at O.C.G.A. § 21-2- 386(a)(1)(B), governing the verification of signatures on absentee ballots.
Second, in April 2020 the Board adopted Secretary of State Rule 183-114- 0.9-.15, Processing Ballots Prior to Election Day, which purports to authorize county administrators to begin processing absentee ballots up to three weeks before Election Day. This rule violates O.C.G.A. § 21-2-386(a)(2), which prohibits the opening of absentee ballots until after the polls open on Election Day. The rule therefore fails to comply with the statutory mandate that any rules promulgated for the conduct of primaries and elections be “consistent with law.” O.C.G.A. § 21-2-31.
Third, the Board promulgated Rule 183-1-14-0.8-.14, establishing unattended absentee-ballot drop box locations, which are not authorized anywhere in Georgia’s Election Code. These unattended drop box locations denied the parties and candidates the assurance that absentee-ballots would be handled
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safely and securely by the U.S. Postal Service or by election officials directly receiving them.
Fourth, the Board allowed election officials in heavily Democratic Fulton County to equip at least two “buses” with voting machines and drive to locations around the area as a “mobile voting” location.3 “Mobile voting locations” are not authorized under Georgia law and are not “consistent with law.” O.C.G.A. § 21-2- 265 provides that precinct voting locations are to be fixed and not to be changed without notice, and further requires that the voting location for each precinct must occur (with very limited exceptions) within the precinct. This statutory violation may have denied the parties and candidates their right to have poll watchers present, a right protected by O.C.G.A. §§ 21-2-408 and 21-2-483. Finally, providing mobile voting locations to ease the voting for one county with a large population voting heavily for one party deprives other counties favoring the other party equal protection of the law.
Finally, the Board and county election officials, through lax enforcement of the Election Code, allowed votes to be cast in violation of Georgia’s election law, as specified in the attached amici brief.
Prior to the 2020 Presidential Election, Georgia’s legislature had not ratified the material changes made by the Board to statutory election law. These changes vitiated the legislature’s absolute authority under Article I, section 4 of the Constitution of the United States: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof . . . .” The legislative mandates established in the Georgia Election Code cannot be overridden by state executive officials. The authority of the State legislatures under Article I, Section 4 for the “manner” of federal elections is plenary, unless Congress intercedes, which Congress has not done. See McPherson v. Blacker, 146 U.S. 1, 35 (1892) (“the legislature possesses plenary authority to direct the manner of appointment” of a state’s electoral votes); accord, Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98, 104 (2000) (“the State legislature’s power to select the manner for appointing electors is plenary”).
As representatives of the body endowed by the Constitution with the plenary authority to mandate election procedures – authority that was wrongfully usurped by other entities before the November 3, 2020 election – Movants have suffered a unique harm and can offer a unique perspective on the critical issues raised by Plaintiff the State of Texas in its Motion for Leave to File Bill of Complaint. For these reasons Movants ask this Court to grant the Plaintiff’s motion and, ultimately, to grant the relief sought by Plaintiff the State of Texas in this case.
Movants also request permission to file their proposed brief on 8 1/2 inch by 11-inch paper pursuant to Rule 33.2. Plaintiff’s emergency petition seeks the Court’s immediate intervention, and time does not allow for the printing of booklets under Rule 33.1. Accordingly, Movants respectfully request this Court to accept the filing of their amicus brief using the format specified in Rule 33.2.
For these reasons, Movants respectfully request the Court’s leave to file the attached Amicus Curiae Brief and for leave to file the brief pursuant to Rule 33.2.
Source:
STATE OF TEXAS,
v.
Plaintiff,
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, STATE OF GEORGIA, STATE OF MICHIGAN, AND STATE OF WISCONSIN,
Early voting in GA is the same as election day voting. Same process, same ballots, same machines. I don’t understand why they’re only going to hand count election day ballots. There are always lines for early voting, I’m going to say a majority of ballots are done through early voting.
Of course mail-in is different from early voting (or election day voting), but mail-in is way down compared to 2020. I saw one YouTube report that said for the same Sept. period in 2020, mail-in requests are down 90% in 2024, but it’s still early.
Where are Ga’s migrant shelters?
That’s where a lot of voter fraud will take place.
Migrants are used in a prime Democrat election fraud.
How Democrat fraudsters plan to steal 2024 for Kamala:
Battleground America ^ | 7/10/24 | Tara Servatius
FR Posted on 7/11/2024, 8:06:56 AM by Babsig
Source —— Talk radio 989 WORD Greenville SC:
<><>they register illegals to vote at proliferating migrant centers,
<><>they get ballots mailed there (to “harvest” them later)
<><>most illegals dont even know they were registered to vote, and have already moved away.
<><>Dem fraudsters then use the mfg ballots to boost Harris into the WH.
Lying and cheating is all they know.
Checkout Ga voters abroad for more voter fraud.
Democrat voter fraud is in high gear.......globally.
Case in point.
Pres Reagan signed into law the 1986 Uniformed and
Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA):
<><>to protect a time-honored tradition of overseas voting
<><>to enhance US citizens abroad and U.S. military members’ right to vote
<><>yet, federal law doesn’t provide clear, commonsense rules
<><>for how overseas voters register to vote
<><>or how their votes are compiled and counted.
<><>ergo, states can make their own laws — even bad ones.
But in August, we learned that Democrats have gone global, committing $300,000 to register and influence 9 million overseas voters — even though the federal government says only 2.4 million legal voters live in other countries. That’s 6.4 million votes that Democrats want to find...that don’t exist. The group financing the efforts——Democrats Abroad—— told CBS News that the ballots are likely to favor Kamala Harris.
Contact the RNC
310 1st St SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 863-8500
They won’t be able to run the same ballots multiple times through the machines.
Lying and cheating is all they know.
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Indeed. They have sold their souls for the treasures of this world, very sad. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
What is seen is temporary, what is unseen is eternal.
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matt. 6:20,21
“They won’t be able to run the same ballots multiple times through the machines.”
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Perhaps, but hand counts will take far longer and insert another level of error all by themselves.
When folks wonder why the election results can’t be finalized for days or weeks, remember the hand count of millions of ballots.
Thanks for this grim reality post, Liz. We need to know what we are up against.
Rafflesburger....what an idiot. We used to hand count before all of this technology and had the winner announced election night.
Still wondering why Raffensberger has been allowed to do what he’s done. State law says that the legislature makes the rules, SOS implements and enforces them.
Always more proof of how corrupt Ga is.
Raffy is screaming like a stuck pig. 😆
Don’t blame us. I seem to remember some place up in yankeeland that just gave up, they couldn’t count, nothing added up.
Good for Georgia.
As to Ratsperger ....
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