Court Reviews 2020 Ballot Inspection Case

The Georgia Court of Appeals has revived a lawsuit from a group seeking to conduct an external review of Fulton County’s absentee ballots from the 2020 election.

A superior court judge had previously dismissed the case on grounds of standing, but a recent state Supreme Court decision widened the definition, enabling several of the plaintiffs to pursue the case.

Nine plaintiffs, among them Garland Favorito, Caroline Jeffords, Trevor Terris, Christopher Peck, Michael Scupin, Sean Draime, Stacy Doran, Brandi Taylor, and Robin Sotir had originally brought the case. However, Scupin, Draime, Doran, Taylor, and Sotir are not Fulton County residents and the court upheld the determination that they lacked standing.

Favorito, Jeffords, Terris, and Peck, meanwhile, have asserted that they do reside within the county’s borders and the court remanded their claims back to the trial court. It now falls to a judge to determine whether to grant the review. (Excerpt from Just the News.)