>“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,**” Fulton County Superior Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his decision. 

By a staggering coincidence, that's *precisely* what Republican election board members would like to accomplish.