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‘The thing missing was clearly the most important thing.’On Nov. 12, the Fulton County Board of Registration and Election (FCBRE) certified the results of the 2024 election. Except no one knows with certainty if the results were actually accurate because crucial data was withheld, according to a member of the board.President-elect Donald Trump won the Peach State but lost Fulton County to Vice President Kamala Harris by 240,097 votes. The results were then certified on Nov. 12, but board members, who are considered the superintendents of elections, weren’t given access to all the requested election-related documentation, FCBRE member Julie Adams...

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...

Elections officials in Georgia have to certify results by the date required in state law, a judge ruled Monday, saying they have no discretion to delay certification because of fraud concerns or other potential issues that may arise as votes are being counted. Fulton County Judge Robert McBurney wrote in an order Monday that "election superintendents in Georgia have a mandatory fixed obligation to certify election results" by Nov. 12. The ruling came in a case filed by Julie Adams, a Republican member of the Fulton County election board, who argued election board members had leeway around certification. She wrote...

The Georgia Supreme Court today issued an order reinstating the heartbeat law that saves babies from abortions. That followed a judge’s ruling declaring the state’s heartbeat law unconstitutional. The law protect unborn babies who have a detectable heartbeat. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney issued a decision declaring Georgia’s 2019 Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act or LIFE Act unconstitutional. McBurney’s decision comes after a 2023 Georgia Supreme Court decision that allowed Georgia’s heartbeat law to stand. Today the high court put McBurney’s ruling on hold at the request of Republican state Attorney General Chris Carr, whose office is...

Yes, there is still a pending lawsuit regarding the 2020 Presidential Election in Fulton County. Favorito et al v Wan et al was filed back in December 2020 in the Fulton County Superior Court but was abruptly dismissed in October 2021 for issues over standing. The plaintiffs appealed and eventually had the dismissal overturned after the Georgia Supreme Court ruled on a key case, Henry County Board of Commissioners v Sons of Confederate Veterans, that ensured voters do have standing to bring a case. In the early stages of the Favorito case, back in May 2021, The Gateway Pundit reported...

It seems that even the most substantial election cases are subject to extraordinary levels of foot-dragging by courts, and VoterGA's Fulton County counterfeit ballot case is no exception. The multiple setbacks due to various opinions and delays in rulings in this case have caused considerable confusion on social media platforms over the timeline of the case and where it currently stands in the courts. Originally filed on Dec. 23, 2020, with ample evidence and affidavits, Petitioners now patiently await the court to assign a new judge pursuant to their motion to recuse Judge Robert McBurney from the case because of...

Former President Donald Trump made a second attempt to quash a Georgia investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state, filing a motion in the state’s supreme court and another court to bar the filing of any charges. Trump had already filed a motion in March to quash the investigation of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney has not yet made a ruling on the matter but is now named as a plaintiff in both suits, including one filed in the court where he serves as a judge.

KEY POINTSTwo grand juries that were seated in Atlanta could soon decide whether to charge Donald Trump and his allies over their efforts to overturn his loss in Georgia's 2020 election.Fulton County DA Fani Willis launched the probe shortly after Trump asked Georgia's secretary of state to "find" enough votes to overturn President Joe Biden's victory in the state.Trump has separately been charged with falsifying business records in Manhattan and in a federal case over his handling of classified documents. Grand juries that were seated in Atlanta on Tuesday could soon decide whether to charge former President Donald Trump and...

The state's attorney general will immediately appeal.ATLANTA (LifeSiteNews) – A Georgia judge declared the state’s heartbeat-based abortion ban unconstitutional despite the U.S. Supreme Court expressly affirming states’ freedom to set their own abortion laws this summer. The Associated Press reported that Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled against the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, which forbids abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected (as early as six weeks), except in cases of rape, incest, physical medical emergencies, and pregnancies deemed “medically futile.” The bill, signed in 2019, inspired a wave of heartbeat laws across the country, which...

ATLANTA — Prosecutors in Atlanta on Monday told lawyers for Rudy Giuliani that he’s a target of their criminal investigation into possible illegal attempts by then-President Donald Trump and others to interfere in the 2020 general election in Georgia, one of Giuliani’s lawyers said Monday. Special prosecutor Nathan Wade alerted Giuliani’s local attorney in Atlanta that the former New York City mayor could face criminal charges, another Giuliani attorney, Bob Costello said. News of the disclosure was first reported by The New York Times. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened the investigation last year, and a special grand jury...

WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) - A judge ordered U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham to testify in front of a special grand jury in Georgia investigating former President Donald Trump's alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ordered that Graham will be required to testify on Aug. 2. The judge's certification filed on Monday described Graham as a "necessary and material witness" to the grand jury probe. The development was reported earlier by WSB-TV. Graham's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The senator's attorneys said last week he...

A Georgia judge ordered that Fulton County must preserve its 2020 election records indefinitely until further notice, handing a victory to a GOP gubernatorial candidate. “The court finds it appropriate to include an additional layer of security by ordering that the records and information … are maintained by the Clerk of Court indefinitely until further order of this Court,” wrote Judge Robert McBurney, of the Superior Court of Fulton County, on Thursday. McBurney further wrote that the clerk of the Superior Court of Fulton County “is the current custodian of those records; she is statutorily obligated to maintain the records...