Could it be because the judge did it in accordance with Georgia law?
Why do you think the SoS accepted the decision?
Because he said in advance that he would and he knew it was eventually going to have to go to an appeal anyway.
Besides that, people are so very, very fallible. That’s why it’s so critical that we have the rule of LAW and not the rule of fallible and so-easily-corrupted (or threatened) men. That’s what I and my fellow patriots are fighting for, and that’s why it doesn’t bother us one bit when people mock us for not being like everybody else who goes along with the corruption, deception, and thuggery.