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'Huge victory': Judge names members of Fulton election board in lawsuit; ballot audit will proceed
[Just the News] An order handed down by a Georgia judge today named several individual members of a county elections board as respondents in an election-related lawsuit, clearing the way for an intensive audit of 2020 absentee ballots in Georgia's largest county. Superior Court Judge Brian Amero in a Thursday ruling dismissed several claims brought against governmental entities of Fulton County on sovereign immunity grounds, but he allowed the five members of Fulton County's Board of Registration and Elections to be named in the suit. "Sovereign immunity" is a legal doctrine that holds that governmental parties are protected from many or most forms of lawsuits. In Amero's ruling, he notes that Georgia law stipulates that "no suit alleging violations of due process or equal protection rights under the Georgia Constitution, that seek declaratory or injunctive relief, may be initiated against either the state or county," barring a waiver from the state legislature or the state constitution. Yet even as he dismissed the government parties in the suit, Amero subsequently moved to add the five members of Fulton's elections board as parties pursuant to a request from the petitioners in the case. Related: Fulton County: 2021-06-24 Stacey Abrams Makes Millions Running Local Elections in Fulton County Fulton County: 2021-06-23 Michael Flynn: 2022 won't be 'free and fair election' if 2020 issues aren't resolved Fulton County: 2021-06-21 Georgia plans to remove 100,000 'outdated' names from voter rolls Posted by: Clavilet Unort8876 2021-06-25 |
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