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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024. This is the exit.

Today, what a decision in Georgia means for county election board members in a

major battleground state. Plus what polling tells us about Americans views

on what will happen after election day, and Donald Trump keeps

leaning into a hyper-masculine approach to male voters in the final stretch before November.

Georgia's top court declined yesterday to hear an appeal made by Republicans of a decision

blocking a new rule that would have required poll workers to hand-count ballots.

Voting rights groups warned that such a challenge could have caused chaos.

The decision means that county-level officials in the state will not have enhanced authority to challenge precinct-level results.

The state Republican Party said in a statement that it

did not plan an appeal of the decision before the election, but called the move

disappointing. The rules passed by the Georgia Board's Republican majority

would have empowered

county election board members to investigate discrepancies

between the number of ballots cast and voters in each precinct and examine election

related documents before certifying their results.

One controversial change would have required poll workers to open the sealed boxes of ballots

scanned by machines and conduct a hand count starting as

soon as election night.

Voting rights groups had said the rule could allow rogue

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