‘That is not the law in Georgia’: Election board sued after Trump-backed ‘pitbulls’ adopt rules that could grind 2024 certification to a halt

MATT NAHAM Aug 27th, 2024, 9:44 am
Updated Aug 27th, 2024, 6:38 pm

The Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Party of Georgia, with the apparent support of the Harris-Walz campaign, filed a lawsuit on Monday to undo two rules adopted by three Georgia State Election Board members after former President Donald Trump praised the Republicans by name at rally on Aug. 3 and said they are “pitbulls fighting for honesty, transparency and victory.”

The lawsuit, filed in Fulton County Superior Court, asks a judge to declare that the “reasonable inquiry” and “examination” rules Janice Johnston, Rick Jeffares and Janelle King adopted in 3-2 votes on Aug. 6 and Aug. 19 are “invalid” and should be permanently blocked because the rules purport to transform mandatory election certification into a discretionary project that will cause “confusion, disorder, and burdens,” and provide “broad license for individual board members to hunt for purported election irregularities of any kind, potentially delaying certification and displacing longstanding (and court-supervised) processes for addressing fraud.”

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