Georgia judge says new voting rules are ‘illegal, unconstitutional and void’

Activists in Georgia spent the summer filing lawsuits and — with the help of a state election board aligned with their priorities — passing rules to reshape the state’s election processes. A local court has now stopped an important part of these efforts.

On Wednesday, Fulton County Judge Thomas Cox Jr. ruled that seven recently adopted state election rules were “illegal, unconstitutional and void.”

The most important of these was a follow-up decision on a hand counting rule that had some local impact Election officials worried about having enough workers Come election day.