Georgia judges are picking apart controversial new election rules in the state as record-breaking amid early voting.
The rules, imposed by Georgia’s Republican-led State Election Board, stood to upend election procedures in the weeks before Election Day.
They drew heavy criticism across the spectrum, from poll workers to Georgia’s secretary of state, who warned that chaos would be unleashed with the 11th-hour changes. But proponents said the rules served to better safeguard November’s contests in the first major election since 2020, which saw unbridled and unfounded claims of widespread fraud.
“We have two judges who have affirmatively shut down...the State Election Board, either claiming that they're either acting hastily and arbitrarily or that they are just fundamentally acting outside of their statutory powers,” said Anthony Michael Kreis, a constitutional law professor at Georgia State University. “I think that's a big deal, because it's not every day that you get major rulings from Fulton Superior Court judges — and you get two of them who are both on the same page.”
But that battle is not over yet, as the State Election Board and its allies in the GOP shift their gazes toward higher courts.
With already over 1 million ballots cast in the critical battleground state, the state's highest court stands poised to weigh in.
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