Georgia election official Janelle King on the effort to change the state's election rules
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The Georgia Supreme Court has blocked the state's Republican-led election board from enforcing new election rules introduced just weeks before Election Day. We speak to Republican Janelle King, a board member who pushed for the rule changes.
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| 0:47.1 | Earlier this month, we spent an hour talking about an election controversy in Georgia. |
| 0:52.1 | The State Elections Board there had tried to push |
| 0:54.5 | through several last-minute major rules changes. Those proposals frustrated |
| 0:59.3 | local elections officials, both Democratic and Republican, and lawsuits were in the works. issued a decision that found the rules changes are quote illegal |
| 1:13.3 | unconstitutional and void end quote the Georgia State Supreme Court has |
| 1:18.0 | declined to hear an appeal so as of now the rules changes sought by the |
| 1:21.9 | Republican controlled elections Board will not be |
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