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By Makini Brice and Jan Wolfe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign said Wednesday that it had filed a lawsuit in Georgia to demand that Chatham County separate and secure late ballots to ensure they are not counted. .
The lawsuit, filed against the Chatham County Board of Elections, asked a judge to order the county to insure and count ballots received after 7 p.m. on Election Day, according to a court document released by the campaign.
The campaign said it filed the lawsuit after receiving information that late-arriving ballots in the county, which includes Savannah, were improperly mixed with valid ballots.
“President Trump and his team are fighting for the good of the nation to uphold the rule of law, and Georgia law is very clear: To count legally, ballots must be received by 7:00 p.m. on the day of the elections, “said the deputy campaign manager. Justin Clark said in a statement.
The Trump campaign has mounted a multi-front legal attack in several battle states in the wake of the tight November 3 presidential election.
The campaign has asked to intervene in a pending US Supreme Court case over whether Pennsylvania, another key state that was still working its way through hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots, should be able to accept incoming ballots. late sent before Election Day.
It also said it has filed lawsuits in Michigan and Pennsylvania seeking to stop the counting of votes, arguing that officials had not allowed fair access to the counting sites.
“The Trump campaign is filing a series of meritless lawsuits across the country. Don’t be fooled,” Democratic Party attorney Marc Elias said on Twitter. “They know they have lost and this is all they have left.”
(Information from Makini Brice and Jan Wolfe; Edited by Sonya Hepinstall)
