WaPo: “To election administrators, democracy advocates and Georgia political figures — including some Republicans — Trump’s comments were unsettling: The board’s work is supposed to be done outside the fray of politics, and Trump’s words suggested that if he loses the state, he would again mount a pressure campaign on the officials responsible for fairly and impartially overseeing elections, just as he did during his failed attempt to overturn his loss in 2020.
In Georgia, a critical swing state, there’s a difference between now and then. Since May, an unambiguously pro-Trump majority has controlled the state election board. And it got to work this week approving a raft of new rules that critics say could void valid votes, place onerous burdens on overtaxed election workers and potentially delay the certification of results.”