Republican lawmakers join lawsuit against election board changes [Video]

ATLANTA — Starting in early September, the Georgia State Election Board began making several election rule changes ahead of November’s presidential election.

Former State Representative Mike Dudgeon said the board overstepped. 

“This is really about the separation of powers and who gets to make the law. The Georgia constitution says that the legislature should regulate elections,” Dudgeon said.

It is why this week Dudgeon and eight other current or former Republican lawmakers filed a brief to support a lawsuit against several of the rule changes. 

“In my opinion and many others, the election board, even if well-intentioned, is doing things that are really under the purview of the legislature.”

In late September, Attorney General Chris Carr, also a Republican, wrote a member to the board making a similar statement. Carr wrote in the memo “the Board runs substantial risk of intruding upon the General Assembly’s constitutional right to legislate.”

In the suit …