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George Chidi in Atlanta

Fulton county brawl with Georgia state election board escalates as election approaches

side-by-side images of the exterior of the Fulton county justice center and people voting against an illustrated red and blue background
A Fulton county’s lawsuit asks for a judgment establishing that the board doesn’t have authority to force the county to accept appointments to their monitoring team. Composite: Javier Palma/The Guardian/Getty Images

The legal brawl between Georgia’s Donald Trump-oriented state board of elections and Fulton county’s election office continues to intensify, a warm-up for the post-election cavalcade of 2020 redux lawsuits expected in November.

Fulton county filed a lawsuit on Monday to prevent the board from placing 2020 election denialists on a monitoring team for the November election. In response, state board members voted to subpoena a wide range of records from the 2020 election in Fulton county.

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