Posted on 10/15/2024 11:18:36 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
Local election officials in Georgia cannot delay or refuse to officially certify election results, according to a state court ruling on Monday.
“Election superintendents in Georgia have a mandatory fixed obligation to certify election results,” wrote Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney in the ruling. “Consequently, no election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and registration) may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance.”
McBurney wrote that the U.S. Constitution does not allow an election official to decline to certify the results.
“If election superintendents were, as Plaintiff urges, free to play investigator, prosecutor, jury, and judge and so – because of a unilateral determination of error or fraud – refuse to certify election results, Georgia voters would be silenced,” he wrote. “Our Constitution and our Election Code do not allow for that to happen.”
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If an election official knows of voter fraud, he/she must certify the election regardless.
Why bother to certify the election results?
Is there something about this ruling I don’t understand. It just doesn’t make sense!
Agreed - mandatory certification is no certification at all.
This is the stuff of Orwell’s 1984.
Fulton County appears to have a severe overabundance of meatballs, boneheads and turd rollers.
Guess the RNC mut appeal the ruling now!!!!!
Here's yet another question:If the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, then why did Democrats repeal the US CODE that gave state legislatures the power to choose Electors if the results weren't determined ON Election Day?
In 2022, the Democrat-controlled Congress repealed in its entirety 3 U.S. Code § 2. Failure to make choice on prescribed day. This section allowed the state legislature to choose its Electors in the event that the election was not resolved ON ELECTION DAY.
Original text of 3 U.S. Code § 2. Failure to make choice on prescribed day:
Whenever any State has held an election for the purpose of choosing electors, and has failed to make a choice on the day prescribed by law, the electors may be appointed on a subsequent day in such a manner as the legislature of such State may direct.In states where the Democrats were holding up counting the votes, taking days to receive mail-in votes, looking to disqualify votes, etc., it was US CODE that the state legislatures could put an immediate stop to it and simply declare the Electors on their own.
It's too bad that Republican-controlled state legislatures didn't use this power, or at least speak out in defense of people claiming to be alternative electors. All it would have taken from such states is a vote of the legislature in support of the alternative slate at any point prior to meeting in the Electoral College.
By removing this section from Title 3, Democrats have legalized delaying the returns for weeks while they keep finding votes.
They must have known they stole the election because they removed the law that gave the states the power to stop the steal if it takes several days to complete.
Repeat:
-PJ
I write computer software.
At the end of a project i may be ask to certify if tests passed.
If I certify and they DON’T pass I could be criminally liable.
Certification is not supposed to mean ‘just count them’
In other words….. were going to try to steal it again.
“””McBurney wrote that the U.S. Constitution does not allow an election official to decline to certify the results.”””
This is stupid........................
Amazing that they have standing but those wanting to protect elections never do.
No republican rural and suburban districts should report until Fulton county does. Just slow walk, take breaks, delay... slow slow slow.
Refuse to report until the fraud zones report so they cannot know how big the steal needs to be. How can they complain if their pet fraud states are not reporting results either?
The Harvard law judge has been appropriately indoctrinated.
Why does a judge have “standing” to make any ruling then? Seems to me they have ruled that anyone can do whatever the hell they want.
Blatant corruption.
McBurney belongs in prison for forcing election corruption. If the day never comes when these judges are held criminally responsible then this country is doomed on that alone.
Doe anyone have the text for what is being agreed to when someone signs and certify s an election. I bet the person is agreeing that the results are accurate. So anyone who does not believe that the results are accurate is committing fraud by signing.
Per Georgia law, the election results must be certified before any challenges can be filed.
that can’t be right
its stupid if it is
BS. Show me the sworn statement the certifier is agreeing to when they certify the election. I am certain that they swearing under oath that they believe the results are accurate. And that is the entire point of certification. If they sign off even though they believe the results are tainted then they are committing perjury.
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