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A judge in Georgia, one of the swing states that decide elections in the United States, on Tuesday blocked a rule that would have required election officials to manually count votes, a measure that could have resulted in the release of results. May delay doing so.
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The ruling by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney said the new rule would impact the electoral process just weeks before the Nov. 5 presidential election.
McBurney ruled, “Anything that adds uncertainty and chaos to the electoral process harms citizens.”
Georgia’s Board of Elections, led by a pro-Trump majority, issued a controversial measure in September requiring hand counting of votes in its counties.
Georgia officials argued that this requirement was unnecessary because there are machines that do the counting, and it leaves room for doubt by delaying the process and creating opportunities for misinformation.
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Trump faces charges for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia, which gave victory to President Joe Biden.
In a separate ruling, the same judge ruled Monday that local election board members must certify the results, a move that could impact the next presidential race.
McBurney’s decision comes after a Republican member of the elections board in Fulton County, which includes much of Atlanta, refused to certify Georgia’s presidential primary results earlier this year.
