Democrats File Suit to Challenge Georgia Voting Rule

The Georgia State Election Board has added a new rule for this election to ensure that ballot count is accurate.

The new rule would require not only a computerized tabulation but also a hand count.

Democrats are fighting the rule, saying it breaks Georgia law and will make ballot tabulation more cumbersome.

New Process

Before I get into the meat of this, I have to say, Democrats challenging a last-minute rule put into play by an election board is pretty comical when you consider all the changes they made for the 2020 election.

In virtually every key blue state, they circumvented the state legislature to put in new rules, using COVID as the excuse.

But now that Republicans are putting in a rule to ensure tabulation accuracy, they want nothing to do with it.

The new rule would require election ballots to be hand-counted as well as machine tabulation, then the numbers will be compared.

The suit, which is being backed by the Georgia Democrat Party, the DNC, and the Harris campaign, claims this new rule “adds an additional hurdle to Georgia’s established process for collecting and tabulating ballots.”

Yes, it does, but is the end goal not to ensure that we have an accurate count so nobody can argue the outcome of the election was rigged?

Quentin Fulks, Harris-Walz campaign principal deputy campaign manager, stated, “As Donald Trump invents facts to try to sow doubt in our elections, his MAGA allies in Georgia passed a new rule just weeks before Election Day that will obstruct the process of counting votes so they can complain when voters reject Trump at the polls.

“We agree with Georgia’s Republican Attorney General and Secretary of State: This rule is unproductive and unlawful, and we are fighting it. Democrats are stepping in to ensure that Georgia voters can cast their ballots knowing that they will be counted in a free and fair election.”

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Donald Trump have been going at it since Trump lost Georgia in the 2020 election, so I suspect there will be no love lost this time around since Raffensperger has concerns about the rule.

They have a month to figure this out but with the Georgia AG and Secretary of State both expressing their concerns about the new rule, I anticipate the rule being trashed before election day.