The election deniers with a chokehold on Georgia’s state election board

The Republican secretary of state and two Republican ex-governors have said the new rules are destroying confidence' in Georgia's election systems

A rule passed last week, which bipartisan election officials in Georgia say will delay the counting of votes in November, was introduced by an election denier who appears to believe in various rightwing conspiracies and whose apparent experience in elections dates only to February.

The rule - which requires poll workers to hand-count ballots at polling locations - was passed by an election-denier majority on the Georgia state election board on Friday. It was introduced by Sharlene Alexander, a Donald Trump supporter and member of the Fayette county board of elections, who was appointed to her position in February. Alexander's Facebook page alludes to a belief in election conspiracies, the Guardian has found.