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American Oversight Files Emergency Motion to Prevent Illegal Georgia State Election Board Rules From Taking Effect (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18020766

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[-] SirDerpy@lemmy.world 84 points 3 months ago

I had to dig through so much shit to figure out what they changed that when I found it even the quote is crap.

The three approved guidelines for local election officials to certify voting results, changing the process from an administrative duty to an investigative one that could include digging into records and the way votes are counted.

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If Trump doesn't win then they want to "investigate" until he has.

[-] g0nz0li0@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago

Good find. Some additional context later in the same article that I found interesting:

In the July meetings, conservative board members favored proposals for increasing the number of poll watchers parties and candidates could send to vote-counting centers, changing the way local election offices verify vote totals, and giving local election board members more access to election-related materials prior to verifying election results.

Partisan poll-watchers and partisan election officials something something free and fair elections (according to conservatives).

[-] SirDerpy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

There's supposed to be partisan balance for poll workers (basically volunteers). But, my experience volunteering in two states has been that the dominant party staffs all their allowed positions while the minority party struggles to staff their minimum.

Other than placing immense pressure upon Democratic platform, an end to partisan bullshit at the polls would be another result of the Green Party receiving 5% of the GE popular. It'd shove an objective third party into every district in America.

[-] g0nz0li0@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah that's exactly the problem with increased partisan staff as opposed to a balance / scaled approach. It will only emphasise money and populism in what should be (and already isn't) an official and unbiased process.

It's super frustrating how much democracy falls into a two-party pit. That said recent UK and Australian elections show how conservative parties who leaned into hard right Trumpism bullshit shed votes to independents and parties who want conservatism with the loonies.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Many red states passed laws in 2021 to essentially add a (always republiQan) voting "approver" who will decide whether or not to send all the votes to the republiQan candidate or not.

If you live in a red state, it's probably a good idea to find out if this applies to you.

Of course it's unconstitutional, but as we have seen several times recently that doesn't matter a single tiny little bit.

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