Republican lawsuit would limit use of ballot drop boxes in Georgia – By David Wickert (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) / Dec 9 2020
The Republican Party has filed a lawsuit seeking to curtail the use of absentee ballot drop boxes across Georgia ahead of the January runoff election.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court, the Republican National Committee and the Georgia Republican Party seek to allow voters to return ballots at drop boxes only during normal business hours, not 24 hours a day. Among other things, the lawsuit also seeks greater access for party monitors to observe vote counting and related activities in the Jan. 5 runoff that will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate.
The Georgia secretary of state’s office encouraged voters to use the drop boxes in the June primary and November general elections amid the pandemic and concerns that the U.S. Postal Service would not deliver ballots on time. A record 1.3 million people cast absentee ballots in the November election, and more than 1 million people have already requested absentee ballots for the runoff election.
“(Republican Chairman) David Shafer and the Georgia GOP need to stop passing the buck for failing to deliver Georgia for (President Donald) Trump and actually focus on getting out the vote in January,” Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs said in a statement about the lawsuit.
