Georgia Republicans and former President Trump’s marketing campaign say that they’re persevering with to take authorized motion towards “coordinated efforts” by Democrat-heavy counties to just accept ballots after the early voting interval ended.
A press release from the Georgia Republican Social gathering, which was obtained by FOX Enterprise on Sunday, detailed the occasion’s newest efforts to cease counties from counting ballots that had been hand-delivered over the weekend.
The lawsuit names seven counties: Clayton County, Cobb, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Fulton, Chatham and Athens-Clarke. Fulton County homes the capital of the state, Atlanta.
Within the letter, chairman Josh McKoon claimed that these counties had been “illegally settle for[ing] ballots this weekend AFTER the tip of early voting on Friday.”
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Georgia Republicans have filed a federal swimsuit relating to alleged early voting infractions. (Getty Photos / iStock)
“The Georgia Republican Social gathering, along side the RNC have filed swimsuit in federal courtroom to halt the counting of those ballots,” McKoon wrote. “At minimal, we wish to sequester the ballots that had been submitted with out correct oversight of our election observers.”
“Moreover, we have now requested Georgia’s Secretary of State and Legal professional Common become involved to resolve this matter and discover solutions to the burning questions all of us have,” he added.
McKoon mentioned that the Republican Social gathering intends to learn the way a 501c3 group “knew to tell voters inside quarter-hour of early voting closure that six Democrat[ic] counties can be extending their weekend hours.”
“Why didn’t these six counties inform the state board of elections, their county board of elections, the Secretary of State, or their native governments about their plans to basically lengthen early voting?” the letter requested. “Who gave the order to Fulton and Chatham County officers to bar ballot observers from monitoring the method? Why did they do that?”
McKoon concluded the replace by urging Georgia Republicans to “hold our foot on the gasoline.”
“We’ll hold the general public knowledgeable all alongside the way in which,” the Republican mentioned. “Nevertheless, this doesn’t change our general mission. We MUST hold our foot on the gasoline and prove voters on Tuesday like our lives rely on it. As a result of it does.”
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Voters forged their ballots at an early voting location in Atlanta, on October 31, 2024. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu through Getty Photos)
The Trump marketing campaign launched a press release on Sunday figuring out themselves as one of many swimsuit’s plaintiffs.
“On the final minute a number of closely Democrat counties introduced they’d open their workplaces over the weekend to obtain mail ballots,” the marketing campaign mentioned in a press release. “That is unlawful, so we instantly filed a state courtroom lawsuit. In a win for election integrity, the counties retreated from plans to maintain drop packing containers open over the weekend, however we proceed to struggle the unlawful re-opening of the facilities in state and federal courtroom.”
“This can be a clear, partisan violation of the legislation supposed to spice up Democrat efforts in Georgia,” the marketing campaign’s assertion added. “With simply two days till our nation’s most necessary election, it’s important for officers to comply with the legislation and run the election in a good and clear method.”
The brand new authorized motion comes a day after an analogous lawsuit introduced by Republicans was struck down. On Saturday, a choose in Fulton County dismissed a lawsuit about normally-closed workplaces permitting voters at hand of their ballots over the weekend.
Fulton County Superior Courtroom Choose Kevin Farmer had rejected all arguments offered by GOP legal professional Alex Kaufman, who claimed that absentee ballots shouldn’t be hand-delivered and accepted after the early voting interval ends.
“I discover that it’s not a violation of these two code sections for a voter to hand-return their absentee ballots,” the choose claimed.
Voters forged their ballots over the past day of early voting in Gwinnett County, Georgia on November 1, 2024. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu through Getty Photos)
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Fox Information Digital reached out to the Georgia Republican Social gathering for added remark.
Fox Information Digital’s Brie Stimson and The Related Press contributed to this report.
