The RNC filed a lawsuit on Saturday after 4 Georgia counties prolonged their election workplace hours and determined to just accept absentee ballots over the weekend in violation of state legislation.
Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb and Gwinnett counties are refusing to permit Republican ballot watchers in to look at the method, in response to the Republican Nationwide Committee.
“This can be a blatant violation of Georgia legislation . . . which states ‘all drop bins shall be closed when the advance voting interval ends,’” the Georgia Republican Occasion mentioned in a statement on Friday. “To make issues worse, the 4 election workplace places are located in areas of the county that may clearly favor Democrat candidates,”
RNC Chairman Michael Whatley mentioned Democrat officers are taking part in quick and free with election legislation.
“Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb, and Gwinnett counties determined on the final minute to just accept ballots over the weekend — which disregards the legislation. They’ve additionally didn’t let our ballot observers in to observe the method. The Secretary of State has issued steerage to permit Republican ballot watchers in however native officers REFUSE,” Michael Whatley mentioned on X.
Democrat officers in Georgia are taking part in quick and free with election legislation.
Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb, and Gwinnett counties determined on the final minute to just accept ballots over the weekend — which disregards the legislation. They’ve additionally didn’t let our ballot observers in to observe the…
— Michael Whatley (@ChairmanWhatley) November 2, 2024
Excerpt from Fox News:
Georgia Republicans are vowing to sue the Democratic stronghold of Fulton County after it introduced prolonged elections workplace hours on Friday.
The menace got here after the state GOP discovered that election officers within the county, which incorporates Atlanta, are planning to open 4 election workplaces this weekend ‘to accommodate voters searching for to hand-return their absentee ballots.’
Fulton County was one among a number of to announce it will maintain election workplaces open this weekend for voters turning of their current absentee ballots in-person.
Drop bins are a approach for voters to show of their absentee ballots at elections workplaces with out human contact, which is completely different from submitting them in individual on the workplace itself.
Drop bins have been accessible by way of Georgia’s early voting interval from Oct. 15 by way of Nov. 1.
However Republicans are arguing that the prolonged hours for handing over absentee ballots over the weekend run afoul of the state’s guidelines.
The Democrats know they’ll’t win until they cheat which is why they doing all the pieces they’ll to flood the poll bins with sketchy mail-in ballots and depend ballots with out GOP ballot watchers current.
A choose additionally ruled on Friday that Cobb County Georgia voters who acquired absentee ballots late can settle for them till November 8, three days after the election.
A minimum of 1,000 of the absentee ballots despatched out late this week in Cobb County went to out-of-state voters.
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