A Georgia Superior Court judge ruled on Tuesday that election boards in the state must certify election results regardless of any suspicion of miscounts or fraud, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
Judge Robert McBurney has rejected claims brought by Julie Adams, a Fulton County Election Board member, who previously voted against certifying this past spring’s presidential primary results. McBurney wrote that any concerns about fraud or systemic error should be communicated to the proper authorities but are “not a basis” for an official to deny an election.
“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,” McBurney wrote. “Our Constitution and our Election Code do not allow for that to happen.”
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