A Fulton County Superior Court judge has cleared the way for the Georgia State Election Board to obtain 2020 presidential election ballots and related records from Fulton County after the board reopened its investigation into the county’s election handling last year.
Judge Robert McBurney ruled last Friday that the Republican-led election board is entitled to access the ballots and associated documents as part of the probe into the 2020 election.
The court also ordered that the Georgia State Election Board must cover the cost of obtaining the records. Fulton County has been given until January 7 to provide an itemized breakdown of the expenses required to process and produce the requested materials.
Fulton County recently acknowledged that about 315,000 early 2020 ballots were certified without the legally required poll‑worker signatures on tabulator tapes, a procedural violation under Georgia law.
