Challenging Georgia elections is harder than in 2020 -- but some may try

Since Donald Trump tried to reverse his loss in the 2020 presidential election, many avenues to challenge the results in Georgia have been blocked.

A court upheld a Georgia law this week requiring county election boards to certify the winner. Two more rulings called off a new hand count that critics said could have caused election night delays and distrust. And a 2022 federal law makes it harder to object to the results in Congress.

But a losing candidate could still try to overturn this year’s election, legal experts say.

They say postelection disputes are likely if the race is as close as in 2020, when Trump and his supporters filed scores of unsuccessful lawsuits in Georgia and other swing states, and a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress ratified states’ electoral votes.




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