[1] The case was brought by the Twelfth Congressional District's Republican Committee, along with individual voters and candidates for Presidential Elector, against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and members of the Georgia State Election Board.
[1] The case was closed on December 17, 2020[2] The plaintiffs sought to invalidate certain rules and procedures related to absentee voting in the U.S. state of Georgia.
[1] The plaintiffs argued that these rules and procedures violated the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by not requiring ID verification in the mail-in ballot process, not expertly checking signatures, and allowing ballot boxes to go unwatched.
[1] They argued that the rules broke existing laws that the State Election Board was supposed to enforce[3] The defendants, on the other hand, maintained that the ballot drop-offs were monitored by cameras 24 hours a day and that counties were required to keep the video for at least 30 days following election certification.
[2] The court's decision came just weeks before the historic runoff election for Georgia's two U.S. Senate seats.