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State's county election takeover in voting law ripe for abuse, critics say


Georgia Recorder
Republican lawmakers have cited Fulton County as a major reason they passed a law giving the state new power to take over problematic local election boards. Fulton County election workers sorted absentee ballots during a pilot audit after last June s primary. Stephen Fowler/GPB
Critics worry that a new Georgia law giving the State Election Board the authority to control county election operations could be misused to try to influence the outcome of close elections.
Georgia civil rights organizations are calling the local election takeover a troubling provision of the sweeping Republican-led overhaul of voting laws by the Legislature, which for the first time grants unprecedented state power to intervene in local boards deemed to be underperforming. ....

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