Election workers in rural Spalding county, Georgia required to hand-count each ballot after false claims about voter fraud
A rural Georgia elections office run by Republicans who promote falsehoods about the 2020 election approved a motion on Monday to institute automatic hand recounts for all future elections.
The decision will require elections staff in Spalding county to hand-count each ballot, then compare those vote totals with totals reached by voting tabulation machines provided by the secretary of state. Hand counts slow certification of election results and are less reliable than tabulations carried out by machines.
In introducing the measure, Republican board member James Newland cited false claims about widespread voter fraud.
“This board intends to do all we can to ensure we have fair elections, elections where each voter counts but [where] as few people who don’t really exist vote as possible,” Newland said. There is no evidence that people who do not exist or are not eligible actually vote in any significant number in US elections.
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The lone Democrat present at the board of elections meeting, Dexter Wimbish, objected to the measure after initially supporting the idea. He changed his mind when Republicans on the board said they did not factor the costs to taxpayers of hand recounts into their decision to implement them.
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