Posted on 02/14/2024 10:05:58 AM PST by Macho MAGA Man
The newly appointed chairman of the Georgia State Election Board cast the deciding vote on Tuesday against recommending that state legislators ban no-excuse absentee voting.
In a 3-2 vote on Tuesday, the election board struck down the recommendation to no longer allow any Georgia voter to request an absentee ballot after Chairman John Fervier declined the request from a fellow board member that the General Assembly dissolve a rule passed in 2005.
Absentee ballots in Georgia have been under increased scrutiny after the State Election Board adopted emergency rules in the 2020 in response to the pandemic’s public health emergency. A record number of Georgians voted by mail-in ballot in the 2020 general election cycle highlighted by the presidential race between Republican Donald Trump and then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden and a pair of U.S. Senate contests.
Trump and many of his supporters would blame his loss in 2020 on unfounded accusations of rampant voting fraud while trying to pressure state officials in Georgia to put an end to no-excuse absentee voting.
Election Board member Janice Johnston said Tuesday that she wanted to have legislators take action because she fears that unilaterally allowing voters to fill out paper ballots outside of their polling place violates federal and state laws protecting ballot secrecy while also posing a higher risk of voter fraud.
Johnston, who was nominated to the board in 2022 by the Georgia Republican Party, referenced the high frequency of complaints and investigations into absentee errors and illegal voting that have been brought to the board’s attention in the last couple years. She proposed to reinstate the prior law, which limited mail-in ballots to military service members, the elderly and to voters with disabilities.
Johnston said that widespread use of absentee voting undermines confidence in elections.
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ridiculous
Headline is ambiguous to me
Hello President Re-elect Biden.
This appears to be a non-binding recommendation.
Ratsburger wins again
Fear not, truly.
I am an election official in Georgia. With the “emergency” crap gone, absentee ballots are under greater scrutiny than in-person voting.
Can a law-breaking election team accept fraudulent absentee ballots? Yes. But there’s no mass mail-in voting any more in GA. And the only drop boxes are in County offices. Ballot harvesting is also back to being illegal.
We should be able to overcome deliberate fraud in Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett and Bibb counties.
Can only hope so and that the diligence you’re stating is also happening in the other major key locations.
no-excuse absentee ballot fraud?
Mandatory fraud...
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Requesting an absentee ballot for any reason, with guidelines that ensure valid voter ID for each ballot, is not the problem.
Sending out mass ballots willy nilly and allowing them to be returned without verifying who completed them is/was/will be the problem.
Good to know. Thanks for all you do to ensure election integrity.
Correct.
At least they are allowing the Legislature a say, which is a remarkable development.
I have wanted to see the term “mail in voting” eliminated. People confuse “absentee voting” with “mail in voting” - every person drawing a breath and their dog marking and mailing a ballot - or several!
I hope with your reply, that and other problems (drop boxes etc.,) will be taken care of. What you have stated as steps taken, it can only mean GOOD for us!
Fully agree with Post #12 - thank you!
I just signed up for absentee ballot mailed to me. I had to furnish all kinds of my personal information to get approved. But this is St John’s county in Florida, and election process here is highly reliable.
NY Times ran a story just after the 2022 General Election about voting in GA. Per the story, use of mail-in ballots in GA in the 2022 General Election had dropped by 80% compared to the 2020 General Election. Along with the drastic cut back in the number of drop boxes and the ban on ballot harvesting, Trump will carry GA in 2024 by several percentage points.
Trump probably can’t win there. The vote fraud is massive.
read post #17
I’ve been voting exclusively absentee since 2002 when AZ allowed you to opt for it permanently. Prior to then you had to opt in per election and I primarily voted by mail then. Done right there’s no problems, used to be considered a GOP advantage here because they were so good at getting people to opt in. Done wrong all voting methods are corruptible. The only thing I’d like to change is to have some bit I could set somewhere in the world that would make all the GOTV efforts go away when I send in my ballot. Stop calling me.
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