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As Shipwreckedcrew covered yesterday, “[o]n Friday, a Georgia State Court Judge ruled that approximately 145,000 absentee ballots cast and counted in Fulton County, Georgia, must be copied and turned over for inspection to Plaintiffs in lawsuits brought in the aftermath of the outcome of the November 2020 presidential election contest in Georgia.”
This new ruling has unfortunately led to renewed usage of the execrable term “The Big Lie” from some Georgia Democrats and members of the media. The denigration of the effort, particularly on the part of officials who, in theory, should care about election integrity on behalf of the voters in the state, has been swift. This matters even more now in Georgia because the new audit is being driven by a lawsuit from actual voters and poll observers concerned about potential fraud in the 2020 election in Georgia’s most populous county. They’re so serious, in fact, the plaintiffs are paying for it themselves.