Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) said Sunday that Georgia’s hand-counted ballot rule is an “effort to turn the democracy on its head.”
“The news that Georgia voters [ought to be] paying attention to is this, the fact that they are doing this, means that they know we’re winning,” Warnock said on “Inside with Jen Psaki” on MSNBC.
“They know that the momentum is with Kamala Harris, and this effort to turn the democracy on its head, so that rather than the voters picking their representatives, the folks who are running get to pick their voters, it won’t stand.”
On Friday, the Georgia Election Board ruled that ballots must be hand-counted by local precincts in spite of concerns from election officials and opposition from some state officials.
The board ruled 3-2 to require ballots to be hand-counted on top of the already-occurring machine count. The change also came with less than 50 days before Election Day.
Even prominent Republicans like Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had raised concerns in the past over the hand-counting of ballots. He indicated there could be rough seas ahead following the rules being passed.