Election law changes overturned: Judge continues to slow down Team Trump in Georgia

ntv.de Election law changes overturned: Judge continues to slow down Team Trump in Georgia 6 hours • 2 minutes reading time While early voting has already begun in the US state of Georgia, the recently changed electoral law continues to keep the courts busy. Now a judge has canceled further rules that Trump's Republicans recently introduced. In Georgia, voters can already cast their votes. There is enormous interest. In the US state of Georgia, a judge has again declared changes to the electoral law that had been pushed through by the Republicans to be invalid. Judge Thomas Cox declared half a dozen other rules invalid, which the Republicans described as necessary security measures but which the Democrats criticized as hindering the confirmation of the result. "The disputed rules go beyond or contradict specific provisions of the electoral law. Consequently, the provisions are unlawful and ineffective," he explained his decision. The Republican-dominated election commission decided on the changes in September. Critics fear, among other things, that the bodies involved could use their far-reaching powers to delay or even refuse to certify the results after the election. The judge has now ordered the electoral authority to immediately repeal the new rules and inform the election officials that they are invalid. The electoral commission can take action against the judge's ruling. Hand counting already overturned The decision came one day after two further court defeats for Trump allies in Georgia. Among other things, a judge had overturned the controversial new rule that requires ballots for the presidential election to be counted by hand rather than by machine. The state, in which early voting began on Tuesday with record turnout, is one of the seven contested swing states that are expected to decide the outcome of the presidential election between Democrat Harris and Republican Trump. Trump lost the 2020 election in Georgia to Democrat Joe Biden and made unfounded allegations of electoral fraud. It later became known that he pressured the state's Republican Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, in a phone call to "find" the nearly 12,000 votes that Trump needed to win.