ATLANTA - Certification of election results in Georgia is a mandatory duty of local elections officials - not a discretionary ...

After this date, state election results become finalized. On Dec. 17, Electoral College electors will meet and cast votes for the presidential candidates according to the will of their states.

The court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Julie Adams, a Republican member of the Fulton County Board of Elections and ...

Some local election officials have refused to certify election results in the past few years. Georgia has new administrative rules that invite election officials to investigate results before ...

The judge ruled that “Georgia voters would be silenced” if county election board members were “free to play investigator, prosecutor, jury, and judge” and refuse to certify election results.

Southwest states certify election results after the process led to controversy in previous years Certification proceeded normally this year in part because Donald Trump won the presidential race ...

A Fulton County judge appeared unlikely to toss out a new rule by the State Election Board requiring county officials to investigate election results, but he said they must certify them. In two ...

This story was updated to add new information. An Atlanta-based judge overseeing two cases dealing with whether Georgia county election boards must certify election results by the state's November ...

Days later, the State Election Board adopted a rule by a 3-2 vote that allowed for county board members to delay certification of election results to conduct a “reasonable inquiry” into them.

Georgia’s Court of Appeals ruled local officials must certify election results, rejecting a GOP lawsuit and limiting the ...

The act instructs Congress to give full effect to any certification of election results issued by a court, even if it’s after the Dec. 11 deadline. Good Faith and Respect ...