Stacy Abrams planning unprecedented legal challenge to Brian Kemp - Polidicks

https://apnews.com/7985be43fa4c4422bfece25cb0204307 ATLANTA (AP) — Stacey Abrams’ campaign is preparing an unprecedented legal challenge in the unresolved Georgia governor’s race that could leave the state’s Supreme Court deciding whether to force another round of voting. The Democrat’s longshot strategy relies on a statute that’s never been used in such a high-stakes contest. It is being discussed as Georgia elections officials appear to be on the cusp of certifying Republican Brian Kemp as the winner of a bitterly fought campaign that’s been marred by charges of electoral malfeasance. Top Abrams advisers outlined her prospective case to The Associated Press, stressing that the Democratic candidate hasn’t finalized a decision about whether to proceed once state officials certify Kemp as the victor. That could happen as early as Friday evening. Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, Abrams’ campaign chairwoman, is overseeing a team of almost three-dozen lawyers who in the coming days will draft the petition, along with a ream of affidavits from voters and would-be voters who say they were disenfranchised. Abrams would then decide whether to go to court under a provision of Georgia election law that allows losing candidates to challenge results based on “misconduct, fraud or irregularities ... sufficient to change or place in doubt the results.” The legal team is “considering all options,” Lawrence-Hardy said, including federal court remedies. But the state challenge is the most drastic. And some Democratic legal observers note Abrams would be dependent on statutes that set a high bar for the court to intervene. Kemp’s campaign, which already has shifted into transition mode presuming he’ll be inaugurated in January, said Abrams is pushing a “publicity stunt” and said her refusal to concede is a “ridiculous temper tantrum.” Under Georgia law, Abrams could file a challenge against Kemp or his successor as the secretary of state. The challenge must be filed within five days of certification in a trial court of the county where the chosen defendant resides. The defendant has between five and 10 days to respond, and the presiding judge sets a hearing within 20 days after that deadline, a calendar that could push a dispute well beyond what would have been a Dec. 4 runoff. If the judge determines the election is so defective that it casts doubt on the results, the judge can declare the election invalid and call a new vote among the same candidates.

Good, would be best if an independent 3rd party was to count the votes, since i don't trust kemp or his underlings a single bit to be honest.

While I'm no legal expert, even to my untrained eye it seems to be a pretty open and shut case. Kemp had a massive conflict of interest throughout the whole process, what with being acting sec-state while running for an office who's votes are counted by that office and continually refusing to recuse or resign from that post. On top of that, he's pulled out every stop he can to try to stop further vote counting, he wanted it called two hours or so after polls closed.

Make no mistake, Kemp stole this election. He deserves to see a jail cell over this.

Didn't he already resign as Sec of State, too? So if the election is declared invalid, he'd be out of a job - which is exactly what he deserves.

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1063557547301502981

Stolen race. Democracy my ass.

The phrase "tantamount to election" is still alive and well in the south, just the party changed; Republicans win or else. At least Kemp's a good target for the next Democrat Attorney General.

I hope the US is downgraded severely on the next Democracy Index report by The Economist. Would send a pretty powerful message.

To who? Certainly not the American government, and we're too big for sanctions.

no it doesn't , being a mockery on the world stage is a badge of honor for the GOP now.

America is already considered a "Flawed Democracy" it clearly doesn't give a shit at this point. Republicans rely on the current system to retain power and most establishment democrats are too beholden to their corporate masters to push any effective and meaningful change.

She gave up. That shiteating piece of filth Kemp won.

I love how posts like this are consistently rated negatively by the same small handful of users as if somehow it's a bad thing to be against corruption and voter suppression. (And other subversions of democracy.) And yet you never see them trying to defend their shitty views because they're cowards who know they don't actually have a leg to stand on.

Don't bother with @windwakr he's basically the epitome of the mindless Trump supporter.

Oh yeah, I'm not actually intending to waste my time with them. I just get a bit of a laugh out of how myopic they are. (Shortly followed by a depressing feeling knowing that my fellow humans, members of the most intelligent species on the planet, can be this willingly idiotic.)

I see no issue with calling out spineless idiots for what they are, honestly, and I hope it continues for a while still.