GOP officials pursue 11th-hour fight for access to the secretary of state's election night hub
Georgia’s State Election Board, the state Republican Party and multiple Republican candidates are demanding access to the secretary of state’s election night hub during Tuesday’s state primary election.
With less than a day to go before the election, state Sen. Greg Dolezal, who is running for lieutenant governor, congressional candidate Chris Mora and Cobb County Commissioner Keli Gambrill have also filed an emergency motion against Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Fulton County Superior Court, seeks to give election observers and State Election Board representatives access to the hub, known as the emergency operations center.
Though the secretary of state’s election night reporting activities are conducted at the emergency operations center, no ballot counting takes place on site and the hub is not a polling place, early voting location or tabulation center. According to Attorney General Chris Carr’s office, that makes it exempt from state laws requiring poll watchers to have access to the areas where votes are being counted.
“The Georgia Election Code as written does not appear to contain any provision requiring the secretary to allow members of the Board to attend election night reporting activities,” Senior Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth Young wrote in a letter to State Election Board Chair John Fervier last week.
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