{"id":117499,"date":"2024-10-23T16:37:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T09:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=117499"},"modified":"2024-10-23T16:37:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T09:37:45","slug":"georgia-supreme-court-delays-ruling-on-controversial-election-board-rules-until-after-nov-5-georgia-recorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=117499","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Supreme Court delays ruling on controversial election board rules until after Nov. 5 \u2022 Georgia Recorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"dataContent\">\n<p><em>This story was updated at 9:15 p.m Tuesday, Oct. 22, to include additional reaction to the Georgia Supreme Court\u2019s decision.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Georgia Supreme Court Tuesday afternoon declined the Republican National Committee\u2019s request to pause a trial court\u2019s decision to block new Georgia State Election Board rules from taking effect for the Nov. 5 general election.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The state Supreme Court issued the order rejecting the emergency motion filed by the Georgia Republican Party and Republican National Committee requesting that the court fast-track the reinstatement of several State Election Board requirements that were ruled to be illegal and unconstitutional by a lower court judge last week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas A. Cox Jr. issued a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiarecorder.com\/2024\/10\/16\/slate-of-georgia-state-election-board-rules-swept-aside-by-fulton-judge\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ruling<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> last week invalidating new statewide procedures for hand counting paper ballots, poll watcher access and other election rules that were pushed through by three right-wing state election officials.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Republican National Committee filed an emergency appeal directly with the Georgia Supreme Court last week to expedite the appellate process in order to have the rules enforced for the Nov. 5 election. Typically, the Georgia Court of Appeals is a necessary interim step before superior court rulings are considered by the state\u2019s high court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the weeks following the November election, the Georgia Supreme Court is set to hold hearings on the RNC\u2019s appeal before deciding on whether the new election procedures will be in place in future elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attorneys for the state and the Republican groups argued for the pressing need to have rules in place for daily reporting on absentee ballots, new ID requirements for dropping off absentee ballots, hand counting paper ballots and broader discretion for local election boards to investigate the way a county conducts an election before<\/span>\u00a0certification.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voters in Georgia have continued to turn out in record numbers during the second week of early voting. Georgia is considered one of seven swing states this election, and polls continue to show a tight race here between Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and former Republican President Donald<\/span> Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Republican Party\u2019s Chairman Josh McKoon expressed frustration Tuesday over the latest setback against enforcing \u201ccommon sense\u201d rules that would allow poll watchers greater access to polling places and give county election board members more discretion to verify the accuracy of election results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201cIt is supremely disappointing to observe yet another failure of our judicial system to expeditiously resolve critical questions about our elections process,\u201d McKoon wrote in a statement posted on X. \u201cGeorgia judges have had no problem expediting other issues, for example supporting the efforts of Georgia Democrats to kick candidates off the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Concurring in the unanimous state Supreme Court decision were a combined eight appointees of Republican Georgia governors Brian Kemp and his predecessor Nathan Deal. Justice John J. Ellington was first elected in 2018 in a nonpartisan statewide election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe solution for Georgians who have had enough of this sort of thing is to turn out in record numbers to elect Donald Trump and the Republican ticket,\u201d McKoon said. \u201cWe will press our appeal next year and hope for sanity to prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"NNvevVb3t8\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiarecorder.com\/2024\/10\/21\/one-week-in-and-early-voting-georgians-have-already-banked-more-than-1-4-million-ballots\/\">One week in and early voting Georgians have already banked more than 1.4 million ballots<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cOne week in and early voting Georgians have already banked more than 1.4 million ballots\u201d \u2014 Georgia Recorder\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiarecorder.com\/2024\/10\/21\/one-week-in-and-early-voting-georgians-have-already-banked-more-than-1-4-million-ballots\/embed\/#?secret=sj1FT41eiD#?secret=NNvevVb3t8\" data-secret=\"NNvevVb3t8\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cox declared several new state election rules to be inconsistent with the current Georgia election code, including a mandate for ballot hand counting that conflicted with multiple provisions defining polling officials\u2019 duties. Under the new state election rule, after polls close on election nights, three poll workers at every precinct would individually count paper ballots to confirm whether the hand tally matches the number of machine-counted ballots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The State Election Board is also seeking reinstatement of a highly controversial change giving the county election board\u2019s new discretion over certifying election results. The three Republican state election officials are asking the court to clarify state law in order to give local election board officials the ability to examine election records and the right to cite any vote discrepancies or other election irregularities as a reason to refuse to certify the election results.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The State Election Board has been forced to defend against a flurry of lawsuits since former GOP state Sen. Rick Jeffares and political media personality Janelle King were appointed earlier this year to the five-member board. The controversial rules were often approved by a 3-2 majority, with Fulton County Republican Janice Johnston joining Sandy Spring\u2019s King and Henry County\u2019s Jeffares in advancing the proposed changes until the rules were finalized several weeks later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cox\u2019s ruling last week resulted from a lawsuit filed by Eternal Vigilance Action, an election advocacy nonprofit founded in 2021 by Republican former state Rep. Scot Turner, which argues that the State Election Board\u2019s recent rulemaking contradicts Georgia law regarding government separation of powers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Turner, executive director of Eternal Vigilance, applauded the Supreme Court denying the emergency appeal Tuesday, which effectively ended the possibility of the contested rules going into effect this year. He stressed the plaintiffs\u2019 resolve to continue the legal battle as the case moves forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe quick decision by a Fulton County judge followed closely by a unanimous vote of the state Supreme Court should erase any doubt about the merits of our arguments,\u201d Turner said in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a Republican and this is a conservative policy organization. I do not like fighting my friends, but in this instance, fealty to the Georgia Constitution demands it. True conservatives oppose empowering an administrative state that\u2019s not directly accountable to voters. This is another win for principle that only the people\u2019s elected constitutional officers have the power to make law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the State Election Board\u2019s recently revised rules have defended them as necessary to ensure more accurate and fair elections across the state.<\/p>\n<p>The state association of Georgia\u2019s local election officials expressed concern that implementing last-minute rules like hand counting paper ballots could result in chaos at the polls and among election workers.<\/p>\n<p>The three right-wing Georgia election board officials have faced an intense criticism from state and national Democratic parties, bipartisan democracy advocates and several civil rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court\u2019s decision to invalidate these MAGA-backed rule changes is a huge blow to their broader plan to inject chaos into our elections and help Trump sow doubt about the 2024 outcome,\u201d Fair Fight Action CEO Lauren Groh-Wargo said in a statement Tuesday. \u201cThe election-denier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/georgia-election-board-vote-certification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conspiracy<\/a>, driven by key Trump allies who aided his scheme to steal the 2020 election, is being stopped in its tracks. 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