Causing delays. It will be quick to count the ballots in rural, likely repubs, areas. It will take much longer in urban areas that are likely voting democratic. Eventually they will get a judge to rule that counting has to stop and that the current count will stand, too bad they only counted the rural areas completely.
Yeah that’s pretty much the plan, I think. But also, remember the MAGA dipshits have gotten a hold of a ton of election-related positions in GA, and I’m sure they’ll be fucking with the ballots in other ways too.
Trying to increase the chance of confusion and questioning of election accuracy by introducing a process that has a high likelihood of being slightly off in a way that doesn't impact the results, but does give ammunition to people that claim the election results aren't reliable.
If a machine count is perfect, the human count is off by a few votes, and the candidates are tens of thousands of votes apart the vote count was fair and reliable. Republicans want to paint this as the opposite, by focusing on 100% perfection in the largest totals.
Changing this at the last minute also increases the chances of mistakes, because there isn't enough time for training the thousands needed to do all the hand counts within the reqhired time frames.
One of those [Trump-aligned] members, Janelle King, suggested that accuracy was more important than timing.
...
“As a voter, I would rather wait another hour...
An hour‽ We're talking between thousands and hundreds of thousands of ballots. You absolute troglodyte, you think humans will do a better job than machines?
...to ensure that the that the [sic] count is accurate...
If only we had historical data points to see if humans do a better or worse job at counting accurately...
...than to get a count or get a number within that hour, and then to find out at the close of an election, after certifications” already taken place “that we have people suing because the count was not accurate.”
Which will happen anyway, because y'all can't seem to accept the reality that most of us don't like your demigod.
An hour‽ We're talking between thousands and hundreds of thousands of ballots. You absolute troglodyte, you think humans will do a better job than machines?
No. In fact she's counting on the opposite because she's manufacturing an excuse to throw out Atlanta's votes.
This. We need to turn out in such numbers that they'll have to be blatantly fucking transparent and have to expand their bullshit into purple and blue states .
That's what makes this exceptionally stupid: ballots in Georgia are fully electronic.
You make your selections on a touchscreen voting machine. The machine records your selections. "Counting" is literally a matter of taking the output from the machine and telling a server to add up the totals.
The paper ballot is literally just a laser printer next to the machine that spits out a sheet of paper showing what the voter selected. The paper ballots are supposed to just be a backup in case there are problems with the machines.
These idiots...
The ballots in 2020 WERE HAND COUNTED THREE TIMES.
No major deviations or fraud were found. What in the heck are these fuckers up to here...
Causing delays. It will be quick to count the ballots in rural, likely repubs, areas. It will take much longer in urban areas that are likely voting democratic. Eventually they will get a judge to rule that counting has to stop and that the current count will stand, too bad they only counted the rural areas completely.
Yeah that’s pretty much the plan, I think. But also, remember the MAGA dipshits have gotten a hold of a ton of election-related positions in GA, and I’m sure they’ll be fucking with the ballots in other ways too.
And when anyone (correctly this time) calls out election fraud, they're going to act like they were vindicated for their 2020 lies.
They will claim voter fraud, even though there is next to none. They will be perpetrating electoral fraud (as they did in 16 and 20).
Edit: 2000 too, as was mentioned
And 2000
Good point, how soon after vote counts is Trump's retrial?
Trying to increase the chance of confusion and questioning of election accuracy by introducing a process that has a high likelihood of being slightly off in a way that doesn't impact the results, but does give ammunition to people that claim the election results aren't reliable.
If a machine count is perfect, the human count is off by a few votes, and the candidates are tens of thousands of votes apart the vote count was fair and reliable. Republicans want to paint this as the opposite, by focusing on 100% perfection in the largest totals.
Changing this at the last minute also increases the chances of mistakes, because there isn't enough time for training the thousands needed to do all the hand counts within the reqhired time frames.
And then they'll say "Oh well, guess we'll just have to have our state legislature decide who won."
An hour‽ We're talking between thousands and hundreds of thousands of ballots. You absolute troglodyte, you think humans will do a better job than machines?
If only we had historical data points to see if humans do a better or worse job at counting accurately...
Which will happen anyway, because y'all can't seem to accept the reality that most of us don't like your demigod.
No. In fact she's counting on the opposite because she's manufacturing an excuse to throw out Atlanta's votes.
This is all a consequence of the Roberts court gutting the voting rights act.
And if they don't like the results they will ask for a recount
That is why they are insisting on hand counting. Because machine counting would be accurate.
Here’s to hoping for such a big win for Harris that the Georgia EV’s are inconsequential.
This. We need to turn out in such numbers that they'll have to be blatantly fucking transparent and have to expand their bullshit into purple and blue states .
reminder if there is no clear winner then congress votes on who should be president with each state getting one vote. every state counts.
I hope they still plan on machine counting to act as a fail-safe.
You seem to assume their goal is an accurate count...
That's what makes this exceptionally stupid: ballots in Georgia are fully electronic.
You make your selections on a touchscreen voting machine. The machine records your selections. "Counting" is literally a matter of taking the output from the machine and telling a server to add up the totals.
The paper ballot is literally just a laser printer next to the machine that spits out a sheet of paper showing what the voter selected. The paper ballots are supposed to just be a backup in case there are problems with the machines.
Next step: insert partisan hacks in ballot hand counting process
That was step 1. This is like step 12
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