Georgia Republicans tempt fate with new attacks on lawsuit-happy Dominion: report

Republicans in Georgia are once again launching attacks against Dominion Voting Systems — despite the fact that the company has successfully sued media entities such as Fox News for hundreds of millions of dollars.

CNN reported Wednesday that "Republican Party officials and Donald Trump allies are trying to preemptively sow doubt about the viability of Dominion systems used across the key swing state, arguing in court that the machines should not be used because they are not safe or secure."

However, CNN also reported that the claims being lobbed by the Georgia GOP officials are mostly recycled from 2020, and the purported new evidence they are bringing to the table is being rejected by Georgia's Republican secretary of state.

"The GOP officials who filed the lawsuit say they have obtained new evidence about the vulnerabilities of the Dominion systems, a claim that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, and state election officers say is false," wrote CNN.

"The lawsuit also theorizes that the systems may have already been compromised, despite offering no proof to support that claim."

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Elizabeth Young, an attorney representing Raffensperger's office, said in court this week that the Georgia Republicans are using the “same tired claims that have been rejected by courts again and again," and urged the courts to toss out their lawsuit.

Marilyn Marks, executive director of the Coalition for Good Governance voting rights organization, told CNN that the Georgia Republicans' lawsuit seems to be a ruse aimed at overturning any unfavorable election result.

“I fear they are just attempting to lay the groundwork for challenging the election based on further exposing the serious weaknesses of the system, demonstrating that the results can be manipulated,” she said.

Dominion has filed a number of defamation lawsuits against pro-Trump operatives and media figures who made false claims about its machines stealing the 2020 election from him, and last year the company scored a landmark $787 million settlement with Fox News over false claims promoted on its shows.