News: Landmark Legal Foundation argues in Georgia court brief that state election laws must be protected
Protect Georgia’s Election Laws
Leesburg, VA – Yesterday, Landmark Legal Foundation (Landmark) and Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a brief in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia urging the Court to deny left-wing interest groups’ request to enjoin state election laws that protect the integrity of the vote.
These organizations allege that traditional voting protections such as limiting who may vote by mail, limiting who may handle mail-in ballots and setting deadlines for receipt of absentee ballots violate their constitutional rights. Such protections, they argue, could expose voters to the Corona Virus.
Landmark and PILF argue that Georgia’s laws are necessary to ensure the integrity of the election process and to deter and prevent voter fraud. Georgia has thousands of deceased individuals with active voter registrations and removing these protections will expose the state to fraud. Removing the limitation on who may handle mail-in ballots will open the state to ballot harvesters who seek to improperly affect the outcome of elections. Further, federal judicial intervention will unduly infringe upon Georgia’s constitutional duty to regulate the time, place and manner of its elections.
“Traditional protections that have served to ensure the integrity of the vote for decades should not be cast aside in the face of the Corona Virus,” stated Mike O’Neill, attorney for Landmark Legal Foundation. “States can and should implement commonsense measures to ensure in-person voting is safe with minimal exposure to the virus. Suddenly opening the voting system to massive and unregulated vote-by-mail will result in chaos, delays and possible voter fraud this November. We are optimistic the Court will do the right thing and deny Plaintiff’s request.”
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Landmark Legal Foundation is a national public interest law firm committed to preserving the principles of limited government, separation of powers, and federalism. Landmark advances an “textualist” approach to the Constitution — that the words in the Constitution mean what they say — and defends our nation’s bedrock principle of liberty.
