The Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding GOP poll watchers have access during the Jan. 5 Georgia Senate runoff elections and more restrictions around ballot drop boxes, Fox News reports.
The suit, filed in Superior Court of Fulton County, seeks "two vital facets of the Georgia Election Code governing the rights of duly appointed poll watchers and statutory safeguards attending the use of ballot 'drop boxes' as a method of absentee voting."
The lawsuit argues that during the Nov. 3 general election and two recounts, "the legal right of political party committees to appoint poll watchers to observe the process was abridged in numerous polling and tabulation locations."
The RNC and state Republican Party, which is also party to the lawsuit, state they fear the same thing will happen in the upcoming runoff votes of both U.S. Senate seats set to potentially decide control of the upper chamber.
Republicans Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue currently hold those seats, but neither garnered the 50% required by the state to win without a runoff. They face Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, respectively.
President Donald Trump's legal team has been challenging the Nov. 3 results, which show Democrat Joe Biden winning by 12,000 votes out of almost 5 million cast. Two recounts have confirmed the results, but Trump and his team have been critical of Republican leadership in the state.
"While we continue to fight multiple cases of election irregularities from the general election, we also must fight to ensure they never happen again," RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel told Fox News. "Election laws need to be properly followed so Americans can have confidence in the results."
Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who has borne the brunt of much of the criticism from the president and others within his own party, said at a news conference Tuesday, "it's been 34 days since the election on Nov. 3. … we have now counted legally cast ballots three times and the results remain unchanged."
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