Attorneys for Georgia’s new secretary of state have asked a federal judge to dismiss a sweeping lawsuit demanding large-scale reforms of the state’s election system, claiming the secretary doesn’t implement state election laws.

But testimony by the secretary of state’s director for the Center for Elections Systems during a recent trial contesting the lieutenant governor’s election, demonstrated that the secretary of state is largely the architect of state elections and provides county officials the blueprints—and software—to run them.

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