Proposal requiring Georgia election workers to ‘shuffle’ ballots at the polls fails to find support
The Georgia State Election Board rejected a proposal that would have required poll workers to manually shuffle ballots before scanning them. The rule was intended to prevent the identification of voter choices but was deemed impossible to implement by election officials.
A last-minute proposal that would have required poll workers to manually “shuffle” ballots before scanning them in an effort to prevent bad actors from identifying how Georgia residents voted failed to advance Thursday at a special-called meeting of the State Election Board. Election workers and advocates said the proposed rule would be impossible to implement […]
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