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Home Front: Politix

Georgia Election Board Approves Rule Requiring Hand Count of Ballots; AZ Supreme Court rules 98,000 unconfirmed citizens can vote in November

2024-09-21

[Epoch Times] The Georgia Election Board has approved a new rule requiring election workers to hand count ballots in the November election and confirm that the numbers match machine counts before the vote can be certified.

The rule, which was first proposed in August, passed in a 3—2 vote on the morning of Sept. 20, making Georgia the only state in the union to adopt such a requirement as part of its standard vote-counting.

Advocates have framed the proposed rules as common-sense measures to bolster election security. Supporters of the hand-count rule, specifically, have argued it would help increase public trust in the voting process.

Critics, such as the Georgia Association of Voter Registration and Election Officials (GAVREO), say the proposed rules are, on the whole, impractical, poorly written, and inefficient in achieving their intended goals.

"We respectfully ask that these proposed rules, and any other petitions for rulemaking, be tabled until 2025," the group wrote in a Sept. 17 letter to the election board.

Courtesy of Skidmark:

Arizona Supreme Court rules 98,000 people whose citizenship is unconfirmed can vote in pivotal election

[FoxNews] Nearly 98,000 people whose U.S. citizenship has not been confirmed will be allowed to vote in the upcoming state and local elections, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday.

The ruling came after a "coding oversight" in state software prompted the swing state's Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to insist that he would send out ballots to those affected anyway.

The database error called into question the citizenship status of 100,000 registered Arizona voters, affecting individuals who obtained their driver’s licenses before October 1996, and subsequently received duplicates before registering to vote after 2004.

Fontes and Stephen Richer, the Republican Maricopa County recorder, disagreed on what status the voters should hold following the "coding oversight."

"This was discovered not because somebody was voting illegally and not because somebody was attempting to vote illegally, as far as we can tell," Fontes said at a Tuesday afternoon news conference. "And this was basic voter roll maintenance, and it showed us that there is this issue."

Richer filed a special action Tuesday asking the state Supreme Court to settle the question.

"It is my position that these registrants have not satisfied Arizona’s documented proof of citizenship law, and therefore can only vote a ‘FED ONLY’ ballot," Richer wrote on X.

Arizona's proof of citizenship law uniquely requires voters to prove their citizenship to participate in local and state races.

Posted by:Bobby

#12

The 36-Star Flag was the official United States flag from July 4th,1865, to July 4th, 1867, following the admission of Nevada into the Union on October 31st, 1864.

If you discount Washington, Oregon, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Illinois, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, this is what it looks like!

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-09-21 21:03

#11 Import 500,000 foreigners that vote...

Iowa Attorney General to Prosecute Noncitizen Charged with Voter Fraud

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-09-21 11:04

#10 Every time I find an encouraging story...

Balanced reporting here at Rantburg.

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-09-21 11:02

#9 This eliminates the failure mode of Ruby recycling the same ballot to meet the desired vote count before the water leak story falls apart. They have to have the correct number of fake ballots. That will be harder than you think. We are not talking about an Ocean’s 11 caliber crew by what I saw.

Posted by: Super Hose 2024-09-21 10:05

#8 It would be fun to take advantage of this ‘everyone votes’ leftist attitude. In DC there are currently less than one million registered voters. Import 500,000 foreigners that vote in their preferred candidate for Mayor instead of the democrat primary winner. It would great to see ‘Sum Ting Wong’ from mainland China as the next Mayor of DC

Posted by: Airandee 2024-09-21 09:01

#7 ^ If you've got $250. In a bank account somewhere

Buy some tax deductible fertilizer, for your garden. It's multi-purpose.

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-09-21 08:53

#6 ^ If you've got $250. In a bank account somewhere; you can bet your arse Uncle Sam is monitoring it.

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-09-21 08:22

#5 These SOBs already have a firm grasp on private assets in banks, S&Ls, companies that run money market founds. All such can be seized by the gubmint with no notice. If/when the internet goes down, account holders will generally have no way to assess their funds. Cash buried in the ground is (so far) the safest way to safeguard your savings, and even that has vulnerabilities.

Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612 2024-09-21 07:51

#4 Well, B, Hillary Clinton told us the Dems were planning this back in 2016. Anyone who doesn't understand the implications is either not paying attention or in on the fix.

Posted by: no mo uro 2024-09-21 07:37

#3 Folks are really going to be shocked when they discover they'll have to sell their house and liquidate their 401K plans to pay for Harris' "unrealized capital gains."

Only a slight change in the rules. These SOB's have been eyeing our 401k savings accounts for decades.

I don't think people realize what we're in for.

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-09-21 04:59

#2 It’s a process, Bobby. At least it’ll be significantly harder for them to cheat than it was last time.

Posted by: trailing wife 2024-09-21 00:57

#1 Every time I find an encouraging story (Georgia) somebody has to pee in my charcoal!

I know, it's not your fault, Skid.... But it is discouraging.

Posted by: Bobby 2024-09-21 00:55

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