Georgia’s state board of elections adopted new rules for local election boards that permit them to withhold the certification of a vote in the face of unspecified discrepancies – a Republican-led move that could cause uncertainty and confusion after future election days.
The five-person board passed the measure in a 3-2 vote. The three board members who voted for it – Dr Janice Johnson, Rick Jeffares and Janelle King – were praised by name three days ago by Donald Trump at an Atlanta campaign rally.
The rule was proposed by Michael Heekin, a Republican appointee to the Fulton election board who refused to certify the presidential primary earlier this year. The rule requires local boards to initiate a “reasonable inquiry” when discrepancies emerge at a poll, and gives the power to withhold certification until that inquiry was completed. It does not define the term “reasonable inquiry”, nor does it establish strict limitations on the breadth of an inquiry.
The new rule essentially makes the certification of election results discretionary, said Democratic state representative Sam Park at a press conference outside of the hearing room at the Georgia capitol.
And the supreme court would just point at the Constitution and say “Well it says here that states are responsible for and must hold the elections.” And then trot off into magical dictator land.
It’s like they fell out of the evil tree and hit every branch on the way down.
And yet they wont allow a state to exclude an insurrectionist from the ballot.
3 of them are good people who belive in the law and human rights. Unfortunately they’re outnumbered by evil scum.
Yeah, and their job now has been reduced to writing an essay-length response to every ruling explaining just how fucked up it is.