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October 15, 2024 |
With anxiety levels running high and the polls far too close for comfort, it's important to note the rare bits of good news when they arrive. Such is the case today after a Georgia judge ruled that county election boards must certify election results, a major blow to election-denying Trump allies. The ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed by a Republican Fulton County Board of Elections member who had voted against certifying the presidential primary back in May. But what makes Tuesday's decision especially significant, as my colleague Ari Berman explains, is that it follows the passage of a series of controversial eleventh-hour rule changes that Democrats, voting rights groups, and even some Republicans worry could be used as a pretext not to certify the election outcome if Kamala Harris carries Georgia. They were made, of course, by the MAGA majority on the state's election board. "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,” Fulton County Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his decision. "Our Constitution and our Election Code do not allow for that to happen." Three weeks out from Election Day, this seems like an unequivocal nice thing to celebrate. I'll take it. —Inae Oh
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