Sand in the gears.
The Georgia State Election Board has ordered that all votes in Georgia be hand-counted. The intention of the three MAGA members of the Board is obvious. They want to delay the count so that the state legislature will allocate the state’s electoral ballots to Trump. These people are assholes. I won’t name them lest someone think I wish violence upon them. I don’t. But I do very much want them to fail.
It will be interesting to hear what the state’s elected officials have to say about the Board’s decision. Will Brian Kemp demand it be rescinded? (He may have the power to remove members by labeling their conduct unethical.) Will the legislature over-rule it? Will the state courts tolerate it?
It’s too early to say how this will play out. Hopefully, it will just be a further embarrassment of MAGA dishonesty that will bring out Democrats and never-Trumpers on election day. But we must remember that the Georgia legisltature put these clowns in place, removing the honest Republican Secretary of State from the Board on account of his being, you know, honest.
If the hand-counting rule is still in place on election day, I believe the counties should call the MAGA thugs’ bluff. They should count the votes electronically and release those results to the media. Let’s see if the MAGA usurpers dare to allocate the state’s electoral…