GA Republicans slam MAGA-dominated board for 'destroying confidence' in election system

26 September 2024

Democrats in the Peach State have been vehemently critical of a new rule passed by the pro-Donald Trump MAGA Republicans who now dominate the Georgia Board of Election. Under the rule, proposed by MAGA board member Sharlene Alexander, poll workers must hand-count ballots — a requirement Georgia Democrats are attacking as cumbersome and unreasonable, especially in light of the fact that the 2024 presidential election isn't far away.

But Democrats, according to The Guardian's Justin Glawe, aren't the only ones speaking out against that rule.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and two Republican ex-governors of Georgia, Roy Barnes and Nathan Deal, are criticizing the Georgia Board of Election's MAGA majority as agents of chaos.

The MAGA Republicans, they say, are "destroying confidence" in Georgia' election system. And Raffensperger is warning that that the new rules "are going to make counting ballots take longer."

"Anyone can submit a rule to the (Georgia) State Election Board," Glawe explains, "but all but one of the 32 rules submitted since May have come from a small but vocal group of election officials and activists who believe in Trump's false claims of widespread voter fraud, including Alexander. The board hadn't implemented a new rule since 2021, and between September 2022 and May, no rules were introduced. Since then, Alexander and a group of election-denying officials and activists — called 'petitioners' in the parlance of the state election board — have introduced 31 rules that will affect millions of Georgia voters."

Glawe describes Alexander as an election denier who promotes "right-wing" conspiracy theories on her Facebook page.

"Under previous iterations of the board," Glawe notes, "rules introduced by election-denying activists were regularly dismissed, said Sara Tindall Ghazal, the lone Democrat on the board. But that began to change earlier this year, when Republicans in Georgia's legislature appointed two new members to the board — Janelle King and Rick Jeffares — after pressure from Trump to replace the former board chair, Ed Lindsey, a more moderate Republican who didn't concede to demands from deniers."

Read The Guardian's full article at this link.

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