| ATLANTA, GEORGIA – OCTOBER 15: Signs direct people where to go to cast
their votes on the first day of early voting at Atlanta Metropolitan
State College on October 15, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia Republicans and former President Donald Trump’s campaign
filed a lawsuit against “coordinated efforts” by Democrat counties to
count ballots received after the close of the early voting period.
In a statement obtained by FOX Business on Sunday, the
Georgia Republican Party outlined its latest actions to prevent counties
from counting ballots that were hand-delivered over the weekend.
The lawsuit specifically targets seven counties which include
Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Fulton, Chatham, and Athens-Clarke.
In the letter, Chairman Josh McKoon alleged that these counties were
“illegally accept[ing] ballots this weekend AFTER the end of early
voting on Friday.”
“The Georgia Republican Party, in conjunction with the RNC have filed
suit in federal court to halt the counting of these ballots,” McKoon
wrote. “At minimum, we want to sequester the ballots that were submitted
without proper oversight of our election observers.”
“Additionally, we have requested Georgia’s Secretary of State and
Attorney General get involved to resolve this matter and find answers to
the burning questions we all have,” he added.
He also said that the Republican Party intends to find out how a
501c3 organization “knew to inform voters within 15 minutes of early
voting closure that six Democrat[ic] counties would be extending their
weekend hours.”
“Why didn’t these six counties inform the state board of elections,
their county board of elections, the Secretary of State, or their local
governments about their plans to essentially extend early voting?” the
letter asked. “Who gave the order to Fulton and Chatham County officials
to bar poll observers from monitoring the process? Why did they do
this?”
He concluded by urging Georgia Republicans to “keep our foot on the gas.”
“We will keep the public informed all along the way,” the Republican
said. “However, this doesn’t change our overall mission. We MUST keep
our foot on the gas and turn out voters on Tuesday like our lives depend
on it. Because it does.”
The Trump campaign also released a statement and identified themselves as one of the suit’s plaintiffs.
“At the last minute several heavily Democrat counties announced they
would open their offices over the weekend to receive mail ballots,” the
campaign said in a statement. “This is illegal, so we immediately filed a
state court lawsuit. In a win for election integrity, the counties
retreated from plans to keep drop boxes open over the weekend, but we
continue to fight the illegal re-opening of the centers in state and
federal court.”
“This is a clear, partisan violation of the law intended to boost
Democrat efforts in Georgia,” the campaign’s statement added. “With just
two days until our country’s most important election, it is critical
for officials to follow the law and run the election in a fair and
transparent manner.”
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