Good news in Georgia

I wonder how long it will take the election deniers to appeal.

UPDATE 10/16/2024:

No appeal necessary.  This is only a temporary injunction blocking the rule while it goes through the court system.

The September 20 rule requires that after the polls close on Election Day, three poll officers must unseal and open each scanner ballot box and remove the paper ballots and sort them into stacks of 50 ballots to make sure the ballots match the figures recorded on the precinct poll pads, ballot marking devices, and scanner recap forms.

The poll officer must then document any inconsistency along with “any corrective measures taken,” though it doesn’t say what those measures should be.

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The judge wrote that introducing an unknown and untested rule at the “11th-and-one-half hour” affecting more than 7,500 poll workers was guaranteed to introduce “administrative chaos” that was “entirely inconsistent with the obligations of our boards of elections (and the State Election Board) to ensure that our elections are fair, legal and orderly.”

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Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had opposed the rule when it was approved, saying his office wouldn’t have time to issue guidelines or train poll workers to implement the rule, according to Tuesday’s ruling.

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The rule also likely exceeded the SEB’s authority and violated Georgia’s administrative procedure laws, the judge concluded.

  Daily Beast

That's just a speed bump.

UPDATE 10/16/2024:

Shattered is right.  Their previous record (2020) was 136,000 ballots on the first day.

Go, Georgia!