{"id":1932381,"date":"2023-05-17T06:25:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T10:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-court-of-appeals-revives-2020-fulton-county-counterfeit-ballot-inspection-case\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T06:30:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T10:30:17","slug":"georgia-court-of-appeals-revives-2020-fulton-county-counterfeit-ballot-inspection-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-court-of-appeals-revives-2020-fulton-county-counterfeit-ballot-inspection-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Appeals Court reopens 2020 Fulton County fake ballot inspection case."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorgia-court-of-appeals-revives-2020-fulton-county-counterfeit-ballot-inspection-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1932381&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Georgia Court of Appeals Revives Lawsuit Alleging Fraudulent Ballots in Fulton County<\/h2>\n<p>The Georgia Court of Appeals has revived a lawsuit alleging that fraudulent or counterfeit ballots were found in Fulton County during the 2020 general election. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-fast-tracks-challenges-to-texas-abortion-law\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Fast-Tracks Challenges to Texas Abortion Law\">appeals court issued<\/a> an order remanding the ballot case back to the Superior Court, but only for petitioners who are residents of Fulton County.<\/p>\n<h3>Plaintiffs and Lawsuit Details<\/h3>\n<p>Nine plaintiffs, including Garland Favorito, founder of the group Voters Organized for Trusted Election Results in Georgia (VoterGA), filed the lawsuit against members of the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections in December 2020. As part of their lawsuit, the plaintiffs produced sworn affidavits from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-court-of-appeals-revives-2020-fulton-county-counterfeit-ballot-inspection-case\/\" title=\"Georgia Appeals Court reopens 2020 Fulton County fake ballot inspection case.\">multiple senior poll managers<\/a> who participated in the ballot counting process. They contended that they saw mail-in ballots that had no fold marks from being mailed, not marked with a writing instrument, and printed on different paper stock, leading them to believe there were additional absentee ballots added in a fraudulent manner.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs in the lawsuit had called for an inspection of all 147,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voterga-to-appeal-ruling-to-toss-ga-election-fraud-lawsuit\/\" title=\"VoterGA to appeal ruling to toss Ga. election fraud lawsuit\">000 absentee ballots cast<\/a> in the state\u2019s election. Superior Court Judge Brian Amero had previously dismissed the case in October 2021, stating that petitioners did not have proper standing to pursue their case.<\/p>\n<h3>Appeals Court Order<\/h3>\n<p>However, a state Supreme Court decision in December widened the definition of standing, concluding that Georgians can have standing to sue if they\u2019re \u201ccommunity stakeholders\u201d who suffer an injury when their local government \u201cfails to follow the law,\u201d paving the way for several of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit to pursue the case.<\/p>\n<p>According to the order from the appeals court, five of the plaintiffs are not Fulton County residents, but are residents of other counties, and thus their claims lack standing. The four other plaintiffs in the suit have all asserted that they are residents of Fulton County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccordingly, we vacate the dismissals of their claims and remand to the trial court for further consideration in the first instance of their standing,\u201d presiding judge Christopher McFadden wrote. \u201cWe note our Supreme Court\u2019s admonition regarding federal authority.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Reaction from Garland Favorito<\/h3>\n<p>While the order does not automatically mean that a judge will grant the ballot inspection, the decision was welcomed by Garland Favorito. \u201cThe citizens of Georgia have been victimized for well over two years by false claims that there is no evidence of election fraud,\u201d Favorito said of the 28-month legal battle in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is critical that Georgians quickly know how many counterfeit ballots were included in the 2020 Fulton election results so we can implement more fraud protection measures prior to the next election,\u201d Favorito continued. He added that he and other eligible petitioners \u201cfully expect the lower court to move expeditiously since it had already ordered a ballot inspection before Fulton County hired criminal defense attorneys to prevent us from looking at the ballots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If there is nothing to hide, all involved should be willing to comply with the inspection request, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>them residents of Fulton County, have had their lawsuit revived by the Georgia Court of Appeals on May 11. The lawsuit alleges the discovery of fraudulent or counterfeit ballots during the 2020 general election in Fulton County. 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