Georgia State Court Judge Authorizes Review of 145000 Absentee Ballots Counted in Fulton County By Shipwreckedcrew for Red State
On Friday, a Georgia State Court Judge ruled that approximately 145,000 absentee ballots cast and counted in Fulton County, Georgia, must be copied and turned over for inspection to Plaintiffs in lawsuits brought in the aftermath of the outcome of the November 2020 presidential election contest in Georgia.
Friday’s decision came in a lawsuit filed by nine plaintiffs, including Garland Favorito, a Fulton resident and self-styled election watchdog. It’s one of more than 30 Georgia lawsuits stemming from the November presidential election and the January runoff for the U.S. Senate. Some of the lawsuits are still winding their way through the courts.
Back on December 5 of last year, I wrote about a lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign in Georgia state court challenging the outcome of the Presidential election contest in Georgia (see Trump Campaign Files Georgia Election Contest in Fulton County Court).
This lawsuit was separate from the ones filed in federal court by Lin Wood and Sydney Powell. The Campaign’s lawsuit being focused on allegations that tens of thousands of invalid votes had been unlawfully counted in favor of Joe Biden. Under Georgia election laws, the procedure should have been for this lawsuit to be assigned to a Fulton County Judge, and then transferred to a judge in another county by the Presiding Judge who determined that it fit certain criteria — which it certainly did. After assigning to a judge, there would be a limited period of discovery during which the Campaign would have been given access to election records, a bench trial held, and a decision made on the allegations of the complaint.
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None of that happened. I covered the reasons why in a second article that looked at the impossibility of conducting a review of a presidential election under Georgia law because of the limited time available between certification of the outcome by the Secretary of State — no election contest can be filed pursuant to the statute prior to certification happening — and the meeting of the Electoral College where the Georgia Electors certified by the Secretary of State cast their votes (see Election Integrity Challenges Not Possible Under Georgia Election Statutes).
