The Georgia Democratic Party filed a motion in state court seeking to overturn two rules put in place by the MAGA-majority state election commission that would empower county election officials to hold up certification of election results for frivolous reasons, the Associated Press reports.
The three Republicans recently appointed to the commission were spotlighted and cheered by Donald Trump at an event in early August, raising concerns that their obvious bias will impact the upcoming elections. Republicans claim the rules are needed to ensure local commissions do not violate their oath to provide “true and perfect” results.
However, the plaintiffs argue, Georgia law does not empower local commissioners to question the results reported by local precincts; their only duty is certify the results as reported. “According to their drafters, these rules rest on the assumption that certification of election results by a county board is discretionary and subject to free-ranging inquiry that may delay certification or foreclose it entirely. But that is not the law in Georgia,” the lawsuit argues.