Georgia judge says county election officials cannot delay or decline certification of election results

Source: CNN

County election officials in Georgia cannot delay or decline to certify election results, a state judge ruled Monday, dealing a blow to an effort by conservatives in the critical battleground state to gain the legal right to reject results based on a suspicion of fraud or abuse.

“Election superintendents in Georgia have a mandatory fixed obligation to certify election results,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in an 11-page ruling. “Consequently, no election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and registration) may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance.”

The case is one of the closely watched disputes over election certification in the critical battleground state. A ruling is still pending in a separate case brought by state and national Democrats against a rule from the State Election Board that requires local election officials to conduct a “reasonable inquiry” into election results before certifying them.

McBurney said in his ruling that while local superintendents have an obligation to “investigate concerns about miscounts,” such concern “is not cause to delay or decline certification.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/15/politics/georgia-election-certification-2024/index.html

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I hope MTG is boiling.

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In this November 2022 photo, people wait in line for early voting for the midterm elections at Ponce De Leon Library in Atlanta. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/File