A Georgia judge on Tuesday ruled that county election officials may not delay or decline to certify election results based on suspicions of fraud.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in an 11-page ruling that the local officials have a "mandatory fixed obligation" to certify results, rejecting claims by Fulton County election board member Julie Adams.
He emphasized in a footnote that concerns about fraud or systemic error should be shared with the appropriate authorities but are "not a basis" for an official to decline to certify.
"If election superintendents were, as Plaintiff urges, free to play investigator, prosecutor, jury, and judge and so — because of a unilateral........