On Monday, a judge in Georgia ruled that election officials in the state are not allowed to delay or otherwise refuse to certify results, even if they find suspicious activity.

As reported by Just The News, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney declared that “election superintendents in Georgia have a mandatory fixed obligation to certify election results.”

“Consequently, no election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and registration) may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance,” McBurney continued.

“If election superintendents were, as Plaintiff urges, free to play investigator, prosecutor, jury, and judge and so – because of a unilateral determination of error or fraud – refuse to certify election results, Georgia voters would be silenced,” McBurney falsely claimed, adding that “our Constitution and our Election Code do not allow for that to happen.”

The case was brought by Julie Adams, a member of the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections and a Republican, who argued that her role in certification should be considered discretionary rather than mandatory.

Fulton County became the focus of nationwide coverage in the 2020 election due to widespread and credible allegations of voter fraud and suspicious activities. Among these instances were election workers suddenly evacuating a vote-counting center due to an alleged “pipe burst” which never happened, as well as surveillance camera footage revealing election workers wheeling out suitcases of extra ballots that were hidden underneath tables.

In the end, Democrat Joe Biden appeared to win the state by just over 11,000 votes, but the results have remained in doubt as to their legitimacy in the four years since the election.