A decide allowed Trump-supporting plaintiffs to audit the absentee ballots in Fulton County, GA. This would be the 4th time that Georgia’s 2020 ballots are recounted.
Yet one more poll audit is about to maneuver forward in Georgia’s most populous county after a decide dominated Friday that absentee ballots could possibly be unsealed for events seeking to study them for proof of fraud.
The evaluate of Fulton County’s absentee ballots, which isn’t set to start till the decide opinions the phrases of the audit, comes as conservatives have clamored for election audits in a lot of states within the wake of former President Donald Trump’s November loss. The baseless perception that there was widespread fraud has persevered amongst some Republicans, regardless of the dearth of proof.
The Georgia audit is occurring below court docket supervision, so don’t count on it to be like the circus that is happening in Arizona.
Republicans are operating an actual danger of shedding future elections as a result of they’ll’t cease litigating the previous.
The GOP can also be digging for something that can give their voter suppression legal guidelines credibility.
It’s harmful to democracy that Republicans proceed to attempt to discredit and undermine an election that they misplaced.
Republicans didn’t hear when the voters spoke in 2020, in order that they must communicate even louder in 2022 and 2024.
Mr. Easley is the founder/managing editor, who’s White Home Press Pool, and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work targeted on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.
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