Posted on 10/22/2024 4:42:44 PM PDT by Coronal
The Georgia Supreme Court has denied the Republican Party's request to immediately reinstate new ballot rules passed by the State Election Board (SEB) last month.
The Peach State’s highest court said it will hear the Republican National Committee’s (RNC's) request for an expedited appeal late last week after Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas A. Cox, Jr. ruled the measures were "illegal, unconstitutional, and void."
The one-page decision by the state Supreme Court released on Tuesday afternoon indicates that ruling will remain in place through Election Day. It was unanimously backed by all judges on the court.
Cox's decision covered a requirement for ballots at each precinct to be hand counted by three separate county officials to ensure the total matches the machine-tabulated number, as well as a provision directing county boards to certify election results only after "a reasonable inquiry" into their accuracy, among others.
Plaintiffs in the case included civil rights groups like the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP and Eternal Vigilance, as well as a current and a former state official.
The state Supreme Court noted it "lacks jurisdiction over this motion" but said it would take the case due to the "issues of gravity and public importance" it presents. The RNC and its allies, including the Georgia state GOP, requested an emergency expedition of the appeals process.
It comes as Election Day approaches in exactly two weeks, though Georgia has already shattered early voting records just seven days after the process began last Tuesday. As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 1 in 4 Georgia voters had cast ballots.
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Judges take charge and interfere in the election same time every election
So, the Supreme Court decided that the Supreme Court has no standing? Something like that?
If the Supreme Court of GA lacked jurisdiction then so did the lower court judge that said it was null and void!
Unbelievable. The judges all waited until the last moment possible and threw out all the measures meant to keep the elections honest and secure.
Does this line it up to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency ruling?
The courts are corrupted everywhere. Great money and care was taken by communists like Soros to ensure that is the case.
SCOTUS won’t touch it. No standing, too late, yada yada.
These asshole judges had NO problem with the illegal procedure for mail in ballots and other chicanery in 2020.
Throwing a set of virtual dishes at the wall.
Judges need to learn their place.
The truth here is that the GA State House and Senate should have passed
the new laws and funded it. Then Kemp would have to sign it.
I can only Speculate why they did not do their job.
Except a lot of RINOS prevented it.
All the damn Feral far-left courts are starting to interfere in this election. Sorry bass turds. The DNC owns every one of them. That is why they are pissed that they don’t own SCOTUS. Time to start dumping all these lefty and foreign refugee “judges”.
Election interference by the judicial branch.
Begin impeachment hearings now.
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RIGGED!!
The requirement to hand count only applied to ballots cast on election day. The vast majority of votes in GA will be cast in early voting (in-person early voting). There just isn’t going to be much of anything to hand count on election day.
EXACTLY what I was going to ask. This is either a poorly written article, or an assinie SC statement!!!
“As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 1 in 4 Georgia voters had cast ballots.”
In a week, it might be 5 in 4.
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