Trump campaign lawyer asks Georgia lawmakers to vacate election results, choose electors

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Trump weighs in on 2020 election challenges

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Ray Smith, lead attorney for the Trump campaign in Georgia, announced Thursday before the Georgia State Senate Judiciary Subcommittee that the campaign will be filing a petition to contest the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Smith said that the court filing will call for a new election in the state, before going on to call on Georgia lawmakers to choose their state's electors themselves.

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"Because of irregularities and abject failure of the secretary of state of this state and the counties to properly conduct of the election it is impossible — impossible — to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election," Smith said. He then noted that a typical remedy for such a problem would be to have a new election.

"That would certainly be a possible remedy in the instance and we are asking the court to order a new election," he continued. "However, because the presidential election is actually a delegation of your constitutional duties as a legislature, you as a Georgia legislature are the body that is to choose the presidential electors."

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Smith gave a preview of what was to come at Thursday afternoon's hearing, saying witnesses will describe various instances of violations of Georgia’s election code.

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When the state election code is “ignored and wholly disregarded,” Smith said, “the legislature cannot rely on the results of that flawed process.” He said federal law covers such a situation, allowing a state legislature to direct how the electors should be selected if there is no decision made as a result of the election.