Following the Georgia Supreme Courtroom’s refusal to permit a number of the State Election Board’s current rule modifications to enter impact earlier than the election, Residents for Duty and Ethics in Washington President Noah Bookbinder launched the next assertion:
“We’re grateful that the Georgia Supreme Courtroom prevented the chaos these rule modifications would have brought about so near the election. Election employees want readability and steerage, whereas altering guidelines on the final minute would deliver a degree of dysfunction that might disrupt the counting of ballots and necessary certification of election outcomes.”
CREW filed a brief within the Georgia Supreme Courtroom on behalf of the Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration in Everlasting Vigilance Motion v. Georgia together with co-counsel Caplan Cobb LLC, and Haynie, Litchfield & White, PC, which builds on a victory we obtained final week within the Fulton County Superior Courtroom in Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration v. State Election Board. That ruling blocked the hand rely rule, which might have required ballot employees at hand rely each poll (not vote) solid following the shut of polls on election night time and would have created confusion and dysfunction within the post-election interval.
“These last-minute rule modifications are opposed by everybody from the Secretary of State to the State Legal professional Basic to the Georgia Affiliation of Voter Registration and Election Officers as a result of they’d undermine the integrity of this 12 months’s election in Georgia. These circumstances usually are not about politics, however about defending election officers and voters from chaos on election day and instantly after it.”
Whereas there’s some overlap between the 2 circumstances, there are nonetheless three guidelines within the Cobb County case that the courtroom has but to rule on. A choice is predicted within the case quickly.
