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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.

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