Democrats sue Georgia election board over changes passed by officials under investigation and possible removal

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Democrats sue Georgia election board over changes passed by officials under investigation and possible removal
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Three allies of former Presidenton the State Election Board proposed new changes to state electoral law, allowing more stringent treatment of ballot counting and electoral certification. The three were hit by an ethics complaint from Fulton County’s former elections board chief, pushing the Democrats to argue that the ethics inquiry should be looked into before the new measures were passed. They also argued that the board members should be removed.

The lawsuit was filed by the Democratic National Party, Georgia Democratic Party, local officials, and political candidates, with the support of Vice President Kamala Harris’s election campaign. “The three members Donald Trump called his ‘pit bulls’ for ‘victory’ disagree, and they’re determined to establish a new power of not certifying an election result should their preferred candidate lose — as he did in 2020,” she said, theThe move to change the electoral rules shortly before the 2024 election was even met with criticism from some Republicans, including Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

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