Proposal requiring Georgia election workers to ‘shuffle’ ballots at the polls fails to find support

By: Maya Homan

Outlets: Georgia Recorder

Published: October 1, 2026

Words: 800

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago

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A last-minute proposal that would have required poll workers to manually “shuffle” ballots before scanning them in an effort to prevent bad actors from identifying how Georgia residents voted failed to advance Thursday at a special-called meeting of the State Election Board.

Election workers and advocates said the proposed rule would be impossible to implement before the November midterms and would likely create more problems than it solved.

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