10-17-2024, 03:09 AM
I recently read this from FoxNews: 'Illegal, unconstitutional and void': Georgia judge strikes down new election rules after legal fights
Of course, I was intrigued... how could simply recounting ballots by hand ever be "unconstitutional?"
Of course, the wrinkle was prebaked into the articulation of the state law... apparently crafted by those who use the law for politics.
One of the measures, a requirement for all ballots to be hand counted by three county election officials after they had been machine tabulated to ensure the totals match, has become a political lightening rod in recent weeks.
This measure, would seem very sober and sane... if it weren't connected directly to "certification."
Certification is part of the electoral process... a nearly sanctified and codified affair... any proposed changes to it demands constitutional review.
Had they simply imposed the requirement regardless and separate from "election reporting," it would have been safe from this partisan gaming of the system.
It's a shame really... a fairly good idea, but it was almost 'designed' to fail legal scrutiny given the political warfare that the duopoly continually evokes.
Of course, I was intrigued... how could simply recounting ballots by hand ever be "unconstitutional?"
Of course, the wrinkle was prebaked into the articulation of the state law... apparently crafted by those who use the law for politics.
One of the measures, a requirement for all ballots to be hand counted by three county election officials after they had been machine tabulated to ensure the totals match, has become a political lightening rod in recent weeks.
This measure, would seem very sober and sane... if it weren't connected directly to "certification."
Certification is part of the electoral process... a nearly sanctified and codified affair... any proposed changes to it demands constitutional review.
Had they simply imposed the requirement regardless and separate from "election reporting," it would have been safe from this partisan gaming of the system.
It's a shame really... a fairly good idea, but it was almost 'designed' to fail legal scrutiny given the political warfare that the duopoly continually evokes.
