Sam, as a politics reporter in Georgia, how are you keeping track of all the new laws and new rules related to voting since 2020?

So it's been really quite a flurry.

Sam Greenglass is a politics reporter at W-A-B-E in Atlanta.

And it's something that not only reporters have trouble keeping up with but election officials too.

This is something I hear so frequently from the civil servants who are running our elections

that almost every legislative session there is a laundry list of new laws

and rules that they have to figure out how to train their volunteer poll workers, adjust

their systems to meet, and often this is happening really close to elections

actually being conducted.

In the last four years, Georgia has passed all kinds of new voting security laws.

The Republican state legislature has tightened absentee voting rules, added watermarks to

ballots, increased access for poll watchers,

and decreased the number of voting machines available on election day.

Then, last week, another change came not from lawmakers, but from the Georgia State Election Board.

It passed a new rule that gives local election officials more discretion to recount ballots and investigate voting discrepancies.

So certifying an election result is usually

kind of this ministerial process where members of a local election

board will take a look at the number of ballots cast and the number of

voters who participated in that election make sure that they match and say yes they

did and that kind of sets the process up to keep moving along.

But something that we're seeing from the state election board

are these new rules that might allow or at least

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