Last week, the five-member Georgia state election board, which includes three conservative members backed by Donald Trump, voted 3-2 to essentially self-empower county election board members to "investigate any discrepancies between the number of cast ballots and the number of voters in each precinct before certification."
That decision to give themselves the power to negate any votes they don't like has led to a lawsuit filed by Democrats, who sued Georgia state election officials on Monday.
Citing that their new rules--which could allow those officials to delay the certification of November's legitimate presidential results--are illegal, the lawsuit further alleges that the rules created and approved by the Republican-controlled Georgia state election board this month were intended solely to give individual county election officials the ability to delay or cancel the certification of votes.
The lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of Fulton County by local Georgia Democratic politicians, the Democratic National Committee, and the Democratic Party of Georgia.
The Democrats' lawsuit also says it "is established law that it is the responsibility of the judicial system, not individual county election officials," to resolve all legitimate allegations of voter fraud.
Most significantly, the lawsuit says the new rules "invite post-election chaos."
That certainly applies to Donald Trump, who famously continues to deny he lost the 2020 election, but just as famously was recorded asking Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find him 11,780 votes."
Trump's "post-election chaos" eventually led to the January 6th insurrection when his MAGA followers attempted to stop the certification of the 2020 election for Joe Biden.