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On Point | Podcast

Inside the fight to protect Georgia’s elections

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In Georgia, a Republican-led state election board is implementing new rules just weeks before election day. Local election officials say the new rules will hurt the state’s election security. What's behind the upheaval in Georgia's elections?

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is on point. I'm Magna Chakrabardee. It's less than one month until election day,

0:05.1

and in Georgia, the state's election system is in turmoil. Georgia's Republican-led state election board

0:12.3

has been introducing new election rules just weeks

0:15.4

before November, and those rules make significant changes to how elections are run in the state.

0:21.6

The latest effort came just yesterday when the board voted to ask

0:25.6

Georgia state lawmakers to update elections rules so that it would be harder

0:31.0

for county elections officials to reject challenges to voter eligibility.

0:37.0

Mass voter challenges are being filed across the state.

0:40.6

A few moments from public comment show just how intense the board meetings have become.

0:45.0

We have discovered double counted ballots, deleted ballot images, machine malfunctions that skip counting ballots.

0:51.0

State election board, I'm asking you to declare a state of emergency today

0:56.2

to secure our elections.

0:57.4

This election was not stolen.

0:59.4

We all know that.

1:00.6

There is a minority that believes it was was and you are letting them hijack a

1:04.8

system that works. The point of this board is not to legislate or execute it's to

1:10.6

provide rules to make sure our elections are fair.

1:13.0

The State Election Board's GOP majority

1:16.2

also voted yesterday to install its own election monitors in Fulton County,

1:21.5

the biggest Democratic-leaning county in Georgia.

1:24.0

Now the board has no legal authority to install its own monitors, but voted to do so anyway.

1:30.0

The Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections is suing to stop that effort.

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