Georgia activists spent the summer filing lawsuits and — with the help of a State Election Board aligned with their priorities — passing rules to reshape the state’s election processes. A local court has now halted a key part of those efforts.
On Wednesday, Fulton County Judge Thomas Cox Jr. ruled seven recently passed state election rules were “illegal, unconstitutional and void.”
Chief among them was a follow-up decision on a hand-count rule that had some local election officials worried about having adequate manpower come Election Day.