"Republican Election Fraud Promoters Back Ballot Hand-Counts"

A Republican-led elections office in rural Georgia, known for promoting falsehoods about the 2020 election, has approved automatic hand recounts for all future elections. The decision requires elections staff in Spalding county to hand-count each ballot and compare the totals with those reached by voting tabulation machines. Hand counts are slower and less reliable than machine tabulations. The lone Democrat on the board initially supported the measure but objected when the costs to taxpayers were not considered. Hand-counting has been favored by a coalition of election-denying conservatives and some concerned liberals. The board's decision violates state election law, which requires the use of Dominion voting machines.