Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said in an Aug. 15 statement that having polling locations hand-count ballots jeopardizes ballot security and risks dangerous delays.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said in an Aug. 15 statement that having polling locations hand-count ballots jeopardizes ballot security and risks dangerous delays.

Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, has criticized the hand-count rule and other recent changes as introducing "the opportunity for error, lost or stolen ballots, and fraud." ...

ATLANTA — The Georgia State Election Board approved a rule Friday requiring counties in the critical presidential battleground to hand-count the total number of ballots this year, potentially ...

A Georgia judge blocked the controversial hand count rule that was passed by the state's Republican-led State Election Board from going into effect, finding that the timing of the rule being ...

The hand-count rule calls for three poll workers in each precinct to empty ballot boxes and sort ballots into stacks of 50 after polls close. The hand count would be compared with the number of ...

Georgia now becomes the only state in the U.S. to implement a hand count as part of the normal process of tabulating machine-recorded results, according to Gowri Ramachandran, the director of ...

The Georgia State Election Board voted 3-2 on Friday to require counties to hand-count all ballots, in addition to machine tallies, in the 2024 election.. The decision, driven by the board’s ...

A hand count of ballots in a primary election race for the Georgia Public Service Commission found a discrepancy, but Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger determined it was ...

The Georgia Supreme Court determined the State Election Board didn't have the power to change several voting rules before last year's presidential election.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said in an Aug. 15 statement that having polling locations hand-count ballots jeopardizes ballot security and risks dangerous delays.