Georgia counties are mandated to certify elections, judge rules
Georgia counties are mandated to certify elections, judge rules
Ruling beats back a lawsuit by a Republican election board member linked to an election denialist organization
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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Get absolutely fucked, traitorous fascists.
It's mind boggling how these pieces of trash are walking free.
America used to know how to deal with traitors.
[thinking about how Reconstruction ended]
Did it, though?
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.
I feel like the term “thinktank” is misapplied here. It’s more like a schemetank or a ratfucktank.
McBurney is now my new favorite civil servant.
""To users of common parlance, ‘shall’ connotes instruction or command: You shall not pass!" he wrote."
McBurney to Republicans:
“Shall” and “may” are used a lot, especially in gun law.
For instance there are counties that have concealed carry permits written as “may issue…” and the sherif decides if a ccp will get issued, but others are written as “shall issue…” and the sheriff is forced to issue the ccp unless they can defend a valid reason against doing so.
What I’m getting at is the “may vs shall” argument has a lot of previous legal definitions.
This is how all my work documentation is. There are "shoulds" and "shalls" in our processes. If you don't do a "should," you just need to have a good reason why not. If you don't do a "shall," you need a blessing from the person who owns the process, and someone else needs to agree that they accept all risk associated with not doing it, and they literally have to put their name next to it. It's a big deal, as it should be, because most of those "shalls" are there for safety
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/10/georgia-election-board-member-lawsuit-dismissed
https://americafirstpolicy.com/issues/afpi-announces-lawsuit-against-georgia-election-process
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/04/republican-julie-adams-georgia-election-integrity-network
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/15/georgia-election-certification-denier-republican