Democrats to file lawsuit to challenge Georgia election board's rule to require ballot hand counts

National and state Democrats plan to file a lawsuit on behalf of local election officials challenging a controversial new rule requiring election workers to hand count ballots on election day.

The Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Party of Georgia, with support from the Harris campaign, will challenge a rule passed this month that was pushed through by three state election board members that former President Donald Trump said are “pit bulls fighting for honesty, transparency and victory.”

The new rule requires that three poll workers sort ballots into piles of 50 and count every ballot to determine if the hand count accurately aligns with the number of total ballots scanned at each polling location on Election Day.

The complaint will be filed in Fulton County on behalf of election officials in Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett and Forsyth counties.


https://georgiarecorder.com/briefs/democrats-to-file-lawsuit-to-challenge-georgia-election-boards-rule-to-require-ballot-hand-counts/