Trump Campaign Files Election Contest in Georgia

President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign filed an election contest in Georgia on Dec. 4, alleging violations of the Constitution and state laws. The contest petition (pdf), filed in the Superior Court of Fulton County, states that several Georgia election officials committed “repeated violations of the election code” which “constituted an abandonment of the legislature’s duly enacted framework for conducting the election and for choosing presidential electors, contrary to Georgia law and the United States Constitution.” The campaign is asking the court to declare that ineligible voters cast votes during the Nov. 3 election, void the results of the election, and order a new presidential election in the state, among other remedies. “What was filed today clearly documents that there are literally tens of thousands of illegal votes that were cast, counted, and included in the tabulations the Secretary of State is preparing to certify,” Ray Smith, the lead counsel for …