Georgia bill gives power to State Election Board and enacts its rules
Georgia Republican state legislators unveiled an elections overhaul bill Wednesday that would empower the State Election Board after its conservative majority tried and failed to change several rules weeks before Election Day last year.
The rewritten bill would mandate the kind of hand ballot counts proposed by the board last fall, give the board authority over voter eligibility appeals and withdraw Georgia from a multistate voter accuracy organization.
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About the Author
Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.
