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(Daniel Acker/Reuters) And, going forward, Badger lawmakers need to ban vote-gathering practices that violate state law.
I would say, “It’s all over but the shouting,” except there’s been nothing but shouting since November 3. Anyway, with the quick progression of the Supreme Court’s tossing of the Texas lawsuit on Friday evening, a Trump-appointed federal judge’s rejecting the Trump campaign’s lawsuit on Saturday, and the Electoral College’s voting 306–232 for President-elect Biden on Monday, President Trump’s post-election litigation effort is at an end.
December 18, 2020 11:12 a.m.
A group of Republicans including the Georgia state party, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and David Perdue (R-GA) reacted to a legal defeat Thursday by quickly lodging another lawsuit in federal court attacking a different part of the state’s election system.
The new lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, seeks to silo ballots cast by voters who registered after the November election from the rest, an attempt to lay the logistical groundwork for tossing those ballots later. A similar tactic was used by Republicans during the general election, though none of their ultimate challenges to those ballots was compelling enough for judges to invalidate them.
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Caption The Cobb County Board of Elections declined to move forward with several challenges to the eligibility of several thousand voters Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Credit: Screenshot
A parade of election-related defeats for Republicans continues in Georgia, as the Cobb County elections board declined to move forward with a challenge to thousands of voter registrations on Friday.
The chair of the Cobb Republican Party and another person filed three challenges that alleged tens of thousands of Cobb voters were ineligible to vote because they moved away, but the board s attorney and elections director said there was insufficient evidence to move forward.
Over 4,000 registered Muscogee County voters to reverify address
Elections board to verify each name after challenge from Muscogee GOP Chairman
Over 4,000 registered Muscogee County voters to reverify address By Cindy Centofanti | December 17, 2020 at 9:25 PM EST - Updated December 17 at 9:43 PM
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - A month and a half after the general election, the integrity of the voting system in Georgia is still being questioned.
This time itâs by the chairman of the Muscogee County Republican Party, Alton Russell, who is challenging the residency of more than 4,000 registered voters.
Russell challenged the Muscogee County Elections Board on the basis that each named voter lives outside of Muscogee County.
December 17, 2020 1:16 p.m.
A federal judge quickly put an end to one of three Republican attempts to curtail absentee voting in the Georgia runoffs Thursday after a brief hearing by teleconference.
This one, lodged by Georgia’s Twelfth Congressional District Republican Committee against Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other election officials, was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. It sought to block the use of drop boxes, keep officials from opening ballots until Election Day and invalidate guidance from Raffensperger’s office about verifying signature matches.
“We are not even on the eve of an election,” said Judge J. Randal Hall during the hearing, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We are, as it relates to this particular election, closing in on halftime.”