Just forty-five days before the presidential election in the United States, the state of Georgia is adopting a new regulation. Assessors will manually count the ballots, in addition to the counting carried out by machines in this state with 7 million voters where Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by only 12,000 votes in 2020.
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To UNITED STATESa state wants to change its vote counting rules. In making this decision, the Georgia Election Commission intends to ” ensure safe, transparent and accurate counting “Four years ago, Donald Trump contested his defeat, particularly in Georgia, which he was the first Republican candidate to lose since 1992.
The new rule was adopted thanks to Republican votes. Before the vote, the chairman of the committee had nevertheless made it clear that adopting it would go against the recommendations of the committee’s legal adviser. He also noted that an overwhelming majority of those responsible for the future vote, who contacted him, are opposed to it.
The fear of repeating certain mistakes
Opposition has been expressed because counting by hand could lead to human error and delay the publication of results in this key state, which could swing one way or the other. A Democratic representative from Georgia has denounced an attempt to ” to sow chaos in the electoral process “, with assessors who will have neither the funds nor the time to set up a manual recount.
Last month, the commission had already adopted a rule allowing election officials to launch an investigation if they had doubts about the vote, which had also raised fears of a delay in the transmission of results.
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