Georgia
The Macon Newsroom: Bibb County elections supervisor plans to comply with new state rule on hand-counting ballots
Laura Corley of The Macon Newsroom reports that the Bibb County elections supervisor plans to comply with the state’s new requirement to count ballots by hand.
Bibb County elections supervisor plans to comply with state’s new rule on hand-counting ballots
Local elections supervisors across Georgia may have some extra work to do after the polls close Nov. 5 as a new rule adopted by the State Board of Elections requires counties to count all ballots by hand.
The new rule the board approved in late September is being challenged in the Superior Court of Fulton County by the Democratic National Committee and the Georgia Democratic Party.
In the meantime, Macon-Bibb County’s Board of Elections Supervisor Tom Gillon is making plans to comply with the added work on election night.
“We’re just figuring out what is the best way to get it done, whether we want to use poll workers that have been working that day or if we want to bring in some extra folks at the end,” Gillon said of the new requirement to count tens of thousands of ballots by hand. “It’s not as bad as it could be, but we’re still asking that of people who’ve been working 14 hours, so there’s been some criticism of the rule.”