A judge from Georgia, one of the swing states that could decide the elections in USAblocked on Tuesday (15) a rule that required electoral officials to manually count votes, a measure that could delay the release of results.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney’s ruling said the new rule would affect the electoral process just weeks before the Nov. 5 presidential election.
“Anything that adds uncertainty and disorder to the electoral process harms citizens,” highlighted McBurney.
Georgia’s election board, led by a pro-Trump majority, issued the controversial measure in September that requires the manual counting of votes in counties.
Georgian authorities stated that the measure was superfluous, as there are machines that do the counting, and could also sow doubt by delaying the process and opening space for misinformation.
The former president Donald Trump faces legal charges for his efforts to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia, which gave the president victory Joe Biden.
Now, Trump is running for president against the current vice president, the Democrat Kamala Harris.
In another ruling, the same judge ruled on Monday that members of the local election board must certify the results, a move that could affect the next presidential race.
McBurney’s decision comes after a Republican member of the election board in Fulton County, which includes much of Atlanta, refused earlier this year to certify the results of Georgia’s presidential primary.
