Georgia’s lawmakers head into the final week of the 2024 legislative session with pending legislation designed to add a new security feature to paper ballots, provide online access to ballots, change the way votes are tabulated and a bill intended to provide more clarity on voter eligibility challenges.
Local election supervisors across Georgia have been keeping an eye out for proposed changes that could be in place in time for the November presidential election and the months to follow if runoffs are required. Election bills that could be passed ahead of the Legislature’s adjournment Thursday would add watermark security requirements to paper ballots, require the secretary of state to develop an online system for the public to inspect ballots after elections and also require that text portions of ballots be used to tabulate votes instead of QR codes.
The proposal includes new statewide rules for voters’ registration status and the probable cause needed to sustain voter eligibility challenges that have become much more commonplace in the last couple of years following Georgia’s hotly contested 2020 presidential election.
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