In a 2020 flashback, Georgia's GOP-aligned election board wants to reinvestigate election results [View all]
Source: AP
Updated 10:13 PM EDT, August 7, 2024
ATLANTA (AP) — Four years after the 2020 election, a newly GOP-aligned election board in Georgia is pushing to reinvestigate the state’s largest county for its handling of the vote.
Georgia’s State Election Board voted 3-2 Wednesday to ask state Attorney General Chris Carr to investigate the Fulton County government, seeking to reopen an inquiry closed in May.
The action shows the degree to which Republican outrage over the 2020 election continues to animate party activists and comes on the heels of a Saturday rally in Atlanta where former President Donald Trump attempted to relitigate unproven claims that he won Georgia, which President Joe Biden won that year by a narrow margin. He praised the State Election Board at the same rally.
Spokesperson Kara Murray said Carr, a Republican who has been opposed by Trump, hadn’t yet received the request. “We take election integrity very seriously, and we will apply the constitution, the law and the facts as we have always done,” Murray said. However, Murray said the attorney general’s office doesn’t investigate or seek criminal charges in cases referred by the board.
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