{"id":115087,"date":"2024-10-17T07:04:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T00:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115087"},"modified":"2024-10-17T07:04:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T00:04:14","slug":"georgia-judge-blocks-ballot-hand-counting-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115087","title":{"rendered":"Georgia judge blocks ballot hand counting order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A judge in the US state of Georgia has blocked an order for ballots in November&#8217;s presidential election to be counted by hand.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Judge Robert McBurney ruled poll workers would not have received adequate training to handle millions of ballots, adding that the last-minute change would have led to &#8220;administrative chaos&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The hand count mandate was passed by the pro-Trump majority on the Georgia election board last month, and Tuesday&#8217;s ruling was welcomed by Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Early voting began in Georgia on Tuesday, with record numbers casting their votes in the key swing state ahead of election day on 5 November. <!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">More than 459,000 people voted in person or by post on the first day of voting, officials said &#8211; more than triple the previous record of 136,000 in 2020.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Around five million votes for president were cast in Georgia that year, with Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by just under 12,000.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Trump refused to accept the result. He is currently fighting criminal charges that he unlawfully trying to change the outcome.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A phone call recording has him telling Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to &#8220;find 11,780 votes&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A judge overseeing the Georgia case later dismissed the charge related to that phone call, and five other charges. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Georgia prosecutor pursuing the case against Trump, Fani Willis, on Tuesday asked an appeals court to re-instate the six dismissed counts.  <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The hand count rule would have required three poll workers in the state&#8217;s more than 6,500 precincts to break open sealed boxes of ballots already scanned by machine to count them and check there was a match. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Critics said the rule would have allowed election board members to delay or deny the state&#8217;s certification of the election results. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">In his ruling, Judge McBurney said the &#8220;11th-and-one-half-hour implementation of the hand count rule&#8221; would diminish public confidence in the outcome.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;This election season is fraught; memories of January 6 [the 2021 US Capitol riot] have not faded away, regardless of one&#8217;s view of that date&#8217;s fame or infamy. Anything that adds uncertainty and disorder to the electoral process disserves the public,&#8221; he wrote.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">On Tuesday evening, the former president held a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, where he called on supporters to deliver a victory &#8220;too big to rig&#8221;, a reference to his longstanding unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 election was stolen by mass fraud. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">On the same day, Democratic candidate Vice-President Kamala Harris continued efforts to woo black voters, after polls indicated Trump was making inroads with this key demographic.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">She urged black voters not to give up on politics, telling radio host Charlamagne Tha God (real name Lenard McKelvey): &#8220;The things that we want, and are prepared to fight for, won\u2019t happen if we\u2019re not active and if we don\u2019t participate.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Her campaign welcomed the temporary block of the hand count rule, calling it an attempt to sow doubt in the voting process.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">In a separate decision on Monday, Judge McBurney ruled that election board members must certify vote results, after a Republican appointee to the board refused to certify the results of Georgia&#8217;s presidential primary earlier this year.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The certification case is one of a number of election-related cases passing through courts in Georgia, one of seven key swing states expected to decide the contest between Trump and Harris. <!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx2kv219d2go\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge in the US state of Georgia has blocked an order for ballots in November&#8217;s presidential election to be counted by hand. 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