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’ challenges to new election rules created by the state’s Republican-majority election board seemed less than enthused about the idea of tossing out those rules on Tuesday, even as Democratic lawyers argue they could cause chaos in November.gave county election officials in Georgia permission to launch vaguely-defined “reasonable” inquiries into contested election results and authority to broadly examine “all election related documentation created during the conduct of elections.
This could be a “recipe for chaos,” Kastorf said, and “for denying Georgians their right to vote,” should local officials decide to exclude ballots from the vote count for reasons they independently determine.Kastorf said the plaintiffs feared that an election official could decide against certifying a precinct, or even an entire state, on this basis. Either way, he noted, such a move would infringe of the rights of voters to have their ballots counted.
As for the other new Georgia elections board rule, which grants board members access to “all” election records created during the election prior to the final results being tallied, the judge agreed that this level of transparency made sense.DNC attorneys said there was “no question” they supported transparency in the election.
The case is not the only one related to Democrats’ concerns about how the election will play out in Georgia next month. On Tuesday, McBurney allowed attorneys for all parties to argue in a matter involving Julie Adams, a Republican member of the Fulton County Election Board who refused to certify Georgia’s election results during the May primary after she raised unfounded concerns about voter data.
Prior to Monday’s bench trial, Georgia’s Republican attorney general, Chris Carr, was sued by Democrats who are trying to block yet another rule advanced by the state elections board. This one was passed on Sept. 20 and requires Georgia precincts to hand-count ballots and then compare them against figures compiled by voting machines.Thank you for your past contribution to HuffPost.
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