How Georgia election officials will sidestep court orders prohibiting extremist election rules

There is nothing that will stop Georgia's election denial officials from sowing doubt in November's results.

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The thing about extremist belief is there’s no real way to stop it. It grows like weeds on the jungle floor, fanning out in whatever direction it needs to find food, water, and light in order to feed and survive. We build cities and roads over the top of it but the flora and fauna still break through. Only constant maintenance keeps it down. Without it, the weeds would overcome the concrete and the city would return to forest, jungle, desert or plain.

I have been asked many times in the last week what is going to happen both on Election Day and in the months that follow. Much of that questioning has centered around the recent developments from an Atlanta courthouse where judges have struck down many of the rules passed by an activist majority on the State Election Board. The people interviewing me have wanted to know whether these decisions will stop election deniers in Georgia — extremists that they are — from overturning the results of the November election. The simple answer is, not really. They will find a way, just like the earth finds a way to undulate and crack a street so that a weed can sprout and grow.

Judge’s orders stopping the implementation of three highly controversial rules that were guaranteed to cause chaos in November are only a temporary fix. As I write this, election denial officials and activists in Georgia are figuring out ways to get around the prohibition of rules to carry out their lone goal, one rooted in beliefs whose closest approximation is something like religious fundamentalism: They will seek to ensure a victory by Donald Trump by any means necessary, regardless of court order, rule, law or vote total. It is their single, driving purpose. And no words from a court are going to stop them in their efforts.

Here is part of their plan on how to achieve that goal.