Experts fear 'chaos' in GA as MAGA election board threatens to 'jeopardize election certification'

09 September 2024

Georgia is among the states that reporters will be paying especially close attention to on Election Night, as it is among the five Donald Trump states that now-President Joe Biden flipped in 2020. And polls are showing that Georgia is very much in play for 2024 Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

Georgia is also a state where election officials fear "chaos" in the 2024 election, according to CNN reporters Sara Murray and Jason Morris.

That chaos, they report, could come from the Georgia State Election Board, which now has three Trump loyalists who Democrats fear could fight the election results and "jeopardize certification" if Harris wins the Peach State.

"With less than two months before Election Day," Murray and Morris explain, "three Republicans on the five-member board are pushing through new rules that could jeopardize election certification, particularly if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the state, election experts and voting rights groups said."

Sarah Tindall Ghazal, a Democrat on the Georgia State Election Board, is sounding the alarm about her three MAGA colleagues.

Ghazal told CNN, "We can't be doing this at the last minute because it creates chaos. And chaos undermines confidence in our elections, full stop."

Ghazal said of the board's MAGA Republicans, "They're not taking the advice of attorneys, they're not taking the advice of election administrators — who are really critical in this whole calculus — and they're certainly not listening to anybody who doesn't think that the elections are rigged."

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a conservative Republican, is worried about the board as well — warning, "The state election board is a mess."

Georgia polls released in late August indicate that the Peach State could go either way in this year's presidential election.

Harris leads Trump in Georgia by 1 percent in a Hill/Emerson College poll and by 2 percent in a Fox News poll. But an Insider Advantage poll released at the end of August found Harris and Trump tied in the state.

Read CNN's full report at this link.

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