Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign is celebrating a Georgia judge's temporary blocking of a rule that would force election officials to manually count ballots after they were counted by machines.
“From its inception, this rule has been an attempt to delay the election results in order to sow doubts about them. Our democracy is stronger because of the decision to block this rule,” said a joint statement to multiple media outlets. It is written, “It has become.”
“We will continue to fight to ensure voters are able to vote.”
This short comment was made by Representative Nikema Williams (D-Ga.), Georgia Democratic Party Chair, Monica Guardiola, Deputy Co-Executive Director of the Democratic National Committee, and Quentin Fawkes, Deputy Campaign Manager Harris Walz. Ta.
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Vice President Kamala Harris' 2024 campaign is celebrating Tuesday night's Georgia state court ruling. (Getty Images)
The joint statement praising the ruling reflects how aligned state and national Democrats have been in opposing the new measures.
The rules, scheduled to go into effect Oct. 22, require three county election officials at each polling place to manually count the ballots (but not to count the votes themselves) after the machines have counted the ballots. ) was to be mandatory.
The bill passed on a 3-2 vote by the State Election Board (SEB), which now faces multiple lawsuits over the bill and other changes made by the Republican-majority committee. I am doing it.
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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney handed down the sentence. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)
Democrats say the rules were intentionally put in place to create division and uncertainty in Georgia's 2020 presidential election, which was decided by fewer than 12,000 votes.
In a ruling Tuesday night, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney did not challenge the intent of the rule itself, but criticized SEB's decision to make the change so close to voting day.
He noted that no training has been implemented or developed to prepare election workers for the new procedures, and no funding has been allocated for it.
“The administrative turmoil that will or may occur in the future completely undermines the Electoral Commission’s (and SEB’s) obligation to ensure that our elections are fair, lawful, and orderly. ,” McBurney wrote.
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Georgia Republican Party officials and allies of former President Trump supported the rule as a fair guardrail to boost voter confidence in the election process.
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McBurney said that while the rules “on paper” appear to be consistent with SEB's goal of ensuring fair and legal elections, “they are the only concrete evidence of who voted for whom. We have added new measures to allow paper ballots to be processed multiple times.” Multiple people acting out after an exhausting voting day before being safely transported to official counting centers will not contribute to calming tensions or increasing public confidence in this election. ”
FOX News Digital has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment on the ruling.
