Boren Files Lawsuit To Stop Hand-Counting Of Ballots In Georgia

As we count down to Election Day, we can continue to count on a group of false patriots to try to throw a monkey wrench into every citizen’s right to have his or her vote count and  be counted.

In order to block the implementation of that last-minute hand counting of votes bull-looney put into place by the Georgia State Election Board, the Muscogee County Board of Elections and Registration filed a lawsuit in Superior Court. Director of the Muscogee County Board Nancy Bowen, said they filed the lawsuit because of the difficulties changes like this cause.

The hand-count rule states that after polling places close and all the votes have been cast, three sworn precinct polling officers will independently count the number of ballots cast in each ballot box. Some supporters of this change say it guarantees that all ballots will be counted.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger, whose job it is to defend Georgia’s election integrity laws, denounced the 11^th hour effort to impose new activist rulemaking that would undermine the Election Integrity Act (S.B. 202). 

“It’s not going to happen,” the Raffensberger said in September.

“Georgia voters deserve confidence that election results will be timely reported on election night as required by S.B. 202 and S.B. 189,” Raffensberger said. “Misguided effort to impose new procedures like hand counting ballots at polling places make it likely the Georgian’s will not know the result on election night. Additionally, having poll workers handle ballots at polling locations after they have been voted, introduces a new and significant risk to chain of custody procedures. Georgia law already has secure chain of custody protocol for handling ballots, and to change these laws by unelected bureaucrats on the eve of the election, introduces the opportunity for error, lost or stolen ballots, and fraud.”

 Also, here in Georgia, a new law went into effect in July, that makes it easier for people to attempt to kick others off the rolls through voter challenges. Georgia voter challenges were always far too easy. Now, Georgia voters face increased risk of losing their right to vote or being forced to defend that right at public hearings, and election deniers have wide latitude to spread disinformation and waste election official time.

Boren also said in addition to violating Georgia law, it would delay election results and increase voter distrust.

“Muscogee County Board of Elections and Registration works tirelessly to provide fair, legal and orderly elections for Muscogee County voters,” she said.

Do the proponents of these “new” laws actually think they are forging the way to fair and honest voting? Or do they think the rest of us are wearing blinders?

Perhaps the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had an answer regarding our false patriots: “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance or conscientious stupidity.”