GA Sued By Texas Over Election Results, 4 Swing States Targeted

GEORGIA — With the Electoral College set to meet in less than a week to formally select Democrat Joe Biden as the next U.S. president, Republicans in Georgia and elsewhere have filed lawsuits contesting the state's election results. It's the latest in a lengthy series of futile attempts by President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his loss in the 2020 general election.

On Tuesday, Texas sued Georgia and the other battleground states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, claiming the votes were "tainted" by last minute changes to election law. The Texas Attorney General is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and block the vote.

The lawsuit reiterates numerous claims that have already been raised and dismissed in a wide array of cases in both federal and state court over the past month.

"By ignoring both state and federal law, these states have not only tainted the integrity of their own citizens' vote, but of Texas and every other state that held lawful elections," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement. "We now ask that the Supreme Court step in to correct this egregious error."

Specifically, the 154-page filing resurfaces the complaints about the distance poll watchers were kept from ballots, as well as the claim that voters in Democratic areas of Georgia and the other states received favorable treatment in the form of allowing ballots to with errors to be fixed. It also says that the Georgia Secretary of State "unilaterally" violated the law by not requiring signature verification on mail-in ballots.

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr’s office said the filing is a misstep.

“With all due respect, the Texas attorney general is constitutionally, legally and factually wrong about Georgia,” Katie Byrd, Carr’s spokeswoman, told WSB.

Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the allegations in the lawsuit “are false and irresponsible.”

“Texas alleges that there are 80,000 forged signatures on absentee ballots in Georgia, but they don’t bring forward a single person who this happened to. That’s because it didn’t happen,” Fuchs said.

More than a month following Election Day, President Trump has continued to refuse to concede the race, amplifying many of these claims in dozens of cases contesting the election.

The latest filings come less than week before the Electoral College meets for its vote on Dec. 14. Tuesday, Dec. 8 is the final day for any changes to be made to the state's electors.