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    Georgiens umstrittene Handzählregel wurde vom Richter blockiert: „Zu viel, zu spät“


    Georgiens umstrittene Handzählregel wurde vom Richter blockiert: „Zu viel, zu spät“

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/georgias-controversial-hand-count-rule-blocked-judge-late/story?id=114838897

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    1. CaptNemo131 on

      Kind of scary that our democracy is basically held together by a few judges doing the right thing

    2. KnownAd523 on

      What keeps me up at night is a Republican trifecta win (House, Senate, and Presidency), which would undoubtedly lead to a purging of those judges doing the right thing. We will then truly become the Republican of Gilead.

    3. evil_timmy on

      Still waiting on the final judgement but putting this on hold was the right move to stop such an obvious attempt to spread chaos. If they wanted to actually clean up these elections they’d have made these decisions last year, same with any of the voter roll purges, instead increasing desperation means they’re trying to pull these tactics so that courts might not even see these cases before Election Day, let alone pass down a final ruling, and they can use the chaos to push whatever fraudulent narrative they’ve cooked up in the meantime.

    4. No-Market-3779 on

      The judges decision to block Georgia’s hand count rule is sensible given the timing. Implementing such a major change just weeks before an election risks creating confusion and errors, rather than ensuring election integrity. Stability and clear procedures are crucial!

    5. BNsucks on

      Imagine that, a responsible, thoughtful judge from GA! Whoda thunk it? People like Alito, Thomas, Cannon, etc. have destroyed the creditability & integrity of the US judicial system.

    7. sweetlike_g on

      It makes sense to block the hand count rule—changing things at the last minute can only stir up more chaos in an already tense election. Better to keep the process smooth and fair.

    8. BebeTheGoddess on

      The judge made the right call blocking the hand count rule rushing it through just weeks before the election could’ve created chaos and confusion. We need to prioritize fair and orderly elections, not add more fuel to an already divided political fire.

    9. CaptainNoBoat on

      >“A rule that introduces a new and substantive role on the eve of election for more than 7,500 poll workers who will not have received any formal, cohesive or consistent training and that allows for our paper ballots — the only tangible proof of who voted for whom — to be handled multiple times by multiple people following an exhausting Election Day all before they are securely transported to the official tabulation center does not contribute to lessening the tension or boosting the confidence of the public for this election.”

      That was the entire point – to erode faith in our institutions.

      So sick of these beyond obvious-goals to break stuff so that Republicans gain an excuse to cry that they are broken.

    10. marktx on

       

      * To put it simply, Trump will be successful in forcing a **contingent election** — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_election by preventing any candidate from reaching the required 270 electoral votes by January 6th 2025— and will be legally installed as the next president, because it’s constitutional.

       

      * Georgia has recently passed the hand counting rule — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/07/georgia-hand-counting-ballots-2024-election-explained — because Georgia **never intends** to offer their electoral votes to be counted by Congress by January 6th 2025, as required by the constitution, and because Congress doesn’t get Georgia’s electoral votes (amongst other states), and no candidate will reach 270 electoral votes, and this will automatically trigger the **contingent election** that will constitutionally install Trump as president.

       

      * Steven Marche from The Guardian wrote about this in September 2023 prior to Georgia changing the hand counting rule — https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/18/donald-trump-could-win-contingent-election — in it he details how it could be done, Trump has just shown us how it will be done with the Georgia move, amongst many others.

       

      * Georgia isn’t the only state that won’t be delivering their electoral college votes — Trump is not trying to win the electoral college, Trump is going to exploit it by removing it from the equation entirely, Trump is going to become president like this.

       

      * Trump will get less popular votes, Trump will get less electoral votes, but Trump will still constitutionally become president again, and I don’t think there is anything that can be done about it, because it’s constitutional.

    11. _DOA_ on

      >In his eight-page ruling, McBurney … and warned that a new rule may invite the very chaos and error that the board is seeking to prevent.

      Except chaos and error is *exactly* what the board is trying to *introduce* to the process. It’s what they want.

    12. dautjazz on

      But Trump was going to have Jesus hand count! These Dems and their shady ways!

    13. 1nGirum1musNocte on

      Its fucking ridiculous. I voted today and you take the printed ballot and have to personally place it in the counting machine/ballot box. The poll worker isn’t even allowed to touch it. So the election interference gang wants to open that box back up and allow fallible people to put their hands all over my already machine counted ballot? Insane

    14. kandoras on

      Anyone pushing for this nonsense should be required to first prove their capability to accomplish the job they’re asking for.

      Sit them and two buddies down with 2,000 filled in ballots and see how long it takes them to all agree on the right number of votes for each race.

    15. shewy92 on

      If anyone was confused as to what the hand count rule was

      https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/georgia-judge-blocks-rule-requiring-counties-hand-count-ballots-rcna175632

      >A Georgia judge on Tuesday blocked a new rule from the state’s election board that would have required counties to count ballots cast on Election Day by hand, a provision critics had said would cause delays and disruptions in reporting results in the battleground state.

      …

      >The rule required election workers to count the number of ballots — not every vote on a ballot — cast on Nov. 5 before they are delivered to the county for counting and tabulation, sparking concerns it could unnecessarily delay the reporting of results and sow uncertainty in a key state in the presidential election.

    17. chunky_Iemon_milk on

      What are the chances Georgia SC overturns this like they did with the abortion ruling?

    19. NeilPoonHandler on

      Thank fucking God. Gives me some hope that Georgia election results might not be a complete clusterfuck like I was dreading.

    21. socokid on

      And *completely* unnecessary.

      The genesis for this childish nonsense is unfounded conspiracy theories by crazy people.

      FFS…

    22. middlebird on

      Trump’s people are trying to steal numerous states. Everyone who has a hand in stopping them should be celebrated as heroes.

    23. cluelessminer on

      Hand count would’ve gone like:

      1, 2, democrat? (TRASH), 3, 4, 5, dem (TRASH)….

    24. PersonSeenAtYourDoor on

      I had an extended family friend admit to me a month back that she didn’t trust the voting machines, the last election was stolen and that she was going to make sure it wouldn’t happen again by “checking” them. Shes an election volunteer in South Georgia this year

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