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Via Stephen Fowler:

The Attorney General's office says last-minute rule changes proposed by a Georgia State Election Board (that has a majority of members who've demonstrated they know very much about election administration) are likely illegal/invalid.

scribd.com/document/771219212/

ScribdFILE_1759 | PDFLetter from Georgia AG's Office to State Election Board
Laffy

2/ WaPo headline:

Pro-Trump Georgia election board votes to require hand counts of ballots


Critics plan to sue, saying the new requirement would almost certainly lead to errors and could disrupt the process of certifying the vote in a crucial battleground state.

3/ Fowler:

Georgia State Election Board votes 3-2 to pass its first rule that would make election workers hand count ballots on election night, appearing to violate state law and would break ballot chain of custody.

@GottaLaff

as we all know, disruption is the entire point....

we need a democratic congress to put an end to this nonsense by maga-freaks. and enact the two voting rights bills.

John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act,

@tdwllms1 Yeah yeah, I know. We know. Pointless to say it unless we get big wins in both Houses.

@GottaLaff @tdwllms1 I will be forever pissed off that this wasn't passed in Bidens first 2 years.

I used to do a ton of election volunteering but the craziness around 2020 has turned me off. The lies around georgia counting had things really intense for me. Simple protections were really needed and seemed to be dropped because it would look like the dems were trying to cheat.

Can't fear bad press like that.

@ATLeagle

They sure tried. It pass the house & was filibustered & couldn't pass cloture in the senate, it needed 60 votes.

the bill failed to pass the Senate after falling short of the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture. A second attempt to pass it on January 19, 2022, as part of a combined bill with the Freedom to Vote Act, also failed. Again falling short of the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture, the bill then failed to pass a vote to be exempted from Senate filibuster rules

@GottaLaff

@GottaLaff Godammit! Will they never stop trying to cheat us in the name of this warted toad?

@Janef @GottaLaff

They will never stop trying to cheat. The only thing that changes is the beneficiary of the cheating.

@GottaLaff Hey Georgia, remember that whole “Industrial Revolution” thing where society agreed that we should build machines to do things because they can be better at many specific tasks than individual humans?

@GottaLaff

Former guy says that Jews will bear a lot of blame if he loses.

That’s OK. I have broad shoulders.