Ruling beats back a lawsuit by a Republican election board member linked to an election denialist organization
Election certification is a mandatory duty, not discretionary, for county election officials in Georgia, a judge ruled on Tuesday, rejecting assertions made by a Republican elections official that elections board members could refuse to certify an election based on their suspicions of fraud or error.
Julie Adams, a Republican member of the Fulton county board of registration and elections, brought the suit earlier this year after abstaining from a vote to certify the May primary election. The America First Policy Institute, a legal thinktank that was formed by former Donald Trump advisers in the wake of Trump’s 2020 election loss to help lay legal groundwork for his potential return to office, joined the suit.
Adams refused certification after claiming she had been denied access to a long list of elections documents. But Robert McBurney, Fulton county superior court judge, ruled that Adams was entitled to review documents quickly, but failing to provide those documents was not grounds for denying the certification of an election.
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The fact that we’re already in litigation re election certification, before the election, should be bone chilling.
Seriously. The damage Trump’s fragile ego has done to our nation is incalculable but undermining the integrity of our free elections is at the top of the list. I fear I’ll never see a Presidential election where a Republican will concede their loss without throwing a hissy fit in the courts ever again.
And if Trump wins in November, I definitely won’t, because as he said at a rally in July, “Get out and vote! Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore! Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore."
it is better to have it sorted before than having the chaos ensued after. and with good result nonetheless, under the circumstances, what more could you wish for?
Oh this isn’t over. SCOTUS will hear it before it’s done.