Georgia Ballot Lawsuit Dismissed Because No Evidence Of Fraud: Fulton Judge

ATLANTA — A Fulton County Judge on Wednesday dismissed the lawsuit that would force an inspection of thousands of sealed absentee ballots from the 2020 presidential election.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Bryan Amero ruled that Garland Favorito and his cohort of Donald Trump supporters lacked standing to sue the county because there was no evidence of fraud in the absentee ballots, as Favorito claimed.

“The court finds that the petitioners have failed to allege a particularized injury,” Amero wrote Wednesday in his order granting motion to dismiss the case, obtained by Patch. “Thus, they lack standing to bring their claims.”

Favorito and his party filed their lawsuit in December demanding an audit of the 147,000 sealed absentee ballots from the Nov. 3, 2020 election. His efforts purported to inspect the ballots for evidence of tampering, irregularities, mishandling or other signs of fraud that could overturn the electoral win President Joe Biden claimed in Georgia.

In particular, the complaint claimed that a batch of absentee ballots appeared to be “pristine” and “printed on different stock,” while more "looked as if they had been marked by machine rather than by hand” and others "contained no creases” or indication that they had been folded to put in envelopes, which “caused one individual to believe that there had been additional absentee ballots added in a fraudulent manner.”

Amero initially allowed the audit to go forward in May, but eventually determined that Favorito’s camp could provide no evidence of fraud. So, the absentee ballots would remain sealed, Amero ruled.

Favorito was displeased with the ruling.

“All citizens of Georgia have a right to know whether or not counterfeit ballots were injected into the Fulton County election results,” he told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Mark Niesse. “It is not adequate for any organization to secretly tell us there are no counterfeit ballots and refuse to let the public inspect them.”

The failed lawsuit adds to the dozens of cases across the country that have fallen flat in the attempt to overturn the election in favor of former President Trump.

Before this litigation, Georgia's election count was reviewed, scrutinized and recounted three times, with Biden coming out ahead by just over 12,000 votes. The result flipped the reliably red Peach State blue for the first time since Bill Clinton was elected president.

Georgia U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene took to Twitter to voice her disdain for the decision, calling it "reprehensible."

Trump, banned from many social media outlets, sent a statement from his "Save America" campaign through the Right Side Broadcasting Network in response to the decision, claiming it a "disgrace."

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