When I hand counted ballots in Halifax in 2001, there [View all]

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were 3 of us from different parties counting - at each poll. So there would be two dozen people counting in one gym if there were 8 or so polls in each polling place. Took us 45 minutes to an hour. Then each poll would call in the results to the election headquarters by the election official. This was a Canadian election with only one local politician from each party on the ballot. Nothing else on the ballot. That is how a parliamentary system works. I can't believe the Georgia 3 are only going to allow 3 counters per precinct. They will get tired. They will make mistakes. That is criminal.

Georgia is allowing 3 per precinct:


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/20/georgia-state-election-board-meeting

"SNIP..........

Forty-six days before the election, Georgia’s state election board has approved a new rule requiring a hand-count of paper ballots cast on election day before tabulating votes.

The three Trump-aligned members that make up the majority on the board approved the rule that would require three people in every precinct to check machine-vote tallies by hand-counting the election results, despite a warning from the state attorney general that this rule and others in consideration “very likely exceed the board’s statutory authority”.

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Voting experts have long warned that hand-counts are time-consuming, costly and less reliable than machines, but they have been favored nonetheless by conservative activists who doubt the results of the 2020 election. Advocates have warned that Georgia’s proposed rule is contrary to state law and an avenue for error.

“What we are talking about in plain terms is asking for thousands of people to handle ballots before their totals are known and were formally reported without virtually a single safeguard in place, even without considering the risk of any bad actors,” Marisa Pyle, senior democracy defense manager for All Voting Is Local, said during the public comment portion of Friday’s meeting. “Elections staff are begging you stop.”

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