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The
lawsuit, brought against the Chatham County Board of Elections,
asked a judge to order the county to secure and account for
ballots received after 7 p.m. on Election Day, according to a
court document released by the campaign.
The campaign said it filed the suit after receiving information
that late-arriving ballots in the county, which includes
Savannah, were improperly mingled with valid ballots.
"President Trump and his team are fighting for the good of the
nation to uphold the rule of law, and Georgia’s law is very
clear: to legally count, mail ballots must be received by 7:00
p.m. on Election Day," deputy campaign manager Justin Clark said
in a statement.
Trump's campaign has mounted a multi-pronged legal attack in
several battleground states in the wake of the tight Nov. 3
presidential election.
The campaign has asked to intervene in a pending U.S. Supreme
Court case over whether Pennsylvania, another key state that was
still working its way through hundreds of thousands of mail-in
ballots, should be permitted to accept late-arriving ballots
sent by Election Day.
It also said it has filed lawsuits in Michigan and Pennsylvania
seeking to halt vote counting, arguing that officials had failed
to allow fair access to counting sites.
"The Trump campaign is filing a number of meritless lawsuits
around the country. Don't be deceived," Democratic Party lawyer
Marc Elias said on Twitter. "They know they have lost and this
is all they have left."
(Reporting by Makini Brice and Jan Wolfe; editing by Sonya
Hepinstall)
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