County election boards in Georgia are not allowed to refuse to certify election results, a state judge ruled on Tuesday.
Concerns of fraud or abuse are to be settled in court, the judge said, not by county officials acting unilaterally.
“If election superintendents were, as Plaintiff urges, free to play investigator, prosecutor, jury, and judge and so — because of a unilateral determination of error or fraud — refuse to certify election results, Georgia voters would be silenced. Our Constitution and our Election Code do not allow for that to happen,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney said in his order.
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