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Georgia election board passes rule requiring hand count of ballots

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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The 2024 voting season is officially underway as polling stations opened Friday for early in-person voting in Minnesota, South Dakota and Virginia. Meantime, the state election board in Georgia passed a new vote-counting rule that has sparked heated debate. Stephanie Sy reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

The 2024 voting season is officially underway as early in-person voting has

0:06.0

started in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Virginia. Meantime, the State Election

0:10.4

Board in Georgia passed a new vote counting rule that has sparked heated debate.

0:15.2

Stephanie Sigh begins our coverage in that state for Vice President Kamala Harris spoke earlier this evening.

0:21.9

Today the Vice President was back in battleground Georgia where a six-week abortion van is cleaving voters.

0:29.0

And her name, and we will speak her name, Amber Nicole Thurman.

0:36.0

Amber Nicole Thurman is a single mother from Georgia who reportedly suffered an abortion-related death.

0:42.0

According to a Pro-public investigation, suffered an abortion-related death.

0:42.8

According to a Pro-publica investigation, Thurman encountered a rare complication from taking

0:47.8

an abortion pill.

0:49.3

The report says she died after waiting 20 hours for doctors to perform a surgical procedure that

0:55.1

has largely been banned by penalty of prosecution in the state.

0:58.9

Harris tied Thurman's death to former President Trump's Supreme Court appointments.

1:04.0

He brags about overturning Roe v. Wade.

1:07.0

In his own words, quote,

1:09.0

I did it and I'm proud to have done it, he says.

1:12.0

He is proud. And I'm proud to have done it, he says.

1:13.4

He is proud, proud that women are dying, proud, that doctors and nurses could be thrown in prison for administering care?

1:25.0

Also in Georgia today the state election board passed a new rule that will require

1:31.0

poll workers to count all ballots by hand.

1:34.0

The motion passes 3 to 2.

1:36.0

It's the latest in a series of changes by the pro-Trump majority on the board,

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