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I am a Georgia poll worker. Republicans’ new rules are making me lose sleep

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The Georgia State Elections Board has gone partisan, now comprised mostly of (unelected) election deniers from 2020 .

The Board also ruled that poll watchers, those watchdogs volunteering from both the Right and the Left , should have closer physical access.

The vast army of Georgia poll workers report for duty only about three days a year and get paid about $7.25 an hour.

Poll watchers are there the whole time, bored cross-eyed, eager to clock anything they can call an irregularity.

If county officials hold up results for certain precincts, it’s likely to erode confidence, create instability, and tie up results in court.

Worst case scenario: Georgia results cannot be certified by the December 11 federal deadline.