The Telegraph: Georgia’s hand-counting ballot rule raises risk for delays. How will Macon handle it?

Jesse Fraga of The Telegraph reports on how Georgia’s Bibb County will adjust to the Georgia Election Board’s new vote counting and poll administration procedures.

A local official says new rule requiring poll workers to hand-count ballots in Georgia for the 2024 presidential election is going to pose further problems for Bibb County, which has already faced issues and vote-counting delays in recent elections.

The Georgia Board of Elections passed a rule Friday requiring poll workers in all counties of the battleground state to hand-count ballots for the presidential election just weeks before voting day, making local officials worried that poll workers will have a heap of new responsibilities and raising the possibility for delayed election results.

Macon’s local primary election results in May were delayed until a day after polls closed. In that instance, the cause was a faulty memory card that held a polling site’s total number of printed ballots. Election officials then had to insert certain printed ballots into a tabulating machine, rather than inserting the memory card into a computer to verify the total amount of ballots.

Read more at The Telegraph.