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Judge blocks Georgia's hand-count rule, citing 'administrative chaos' at 11th-and-one-half hour

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The September 20 rule requires that poll officers unseal and open each scanner ballot box and remove the paper ballots and sort them into stacks of 50 ballots.

Georgia ’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had opposed the rule when it was approved, saying his office wouldn’t have time to issue guidelines or train poll workers to implement the rule.