Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, smiles during a campaign rally at the Gerald W. Kirn Middle School in Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S., on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016. Donald Trump has overtaken Ted Cruz in the final days before Iowa's caucuses, with the fate of the race closely tied to the size of Monday evening's turnout, especially among evangelical voters and those attending for the first time. (Photo: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images ) By Makini Brice and Jan Wolfe
The lawsuit, brought against the Chatham County Board of Elections, asked a judge to order the county to secure and account for ballots received after 7 p.m. on Election Day, according to a court document released by the campaign.
"President Trump and his team are fighting for the good of the nation to uphold the rule of law, and Georgia’s law is very clear: to legally count, mail ballots must be received by 7:00 p.m. on Election Day," deputy campaign manager Justin Clark said in a statement.
Trump's campaign has mounted a multi-pronged legal attack in several battleground states in the wake of the tight Nov. 3 presidential election.
The campaign has asked to intervene in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case over whether Pennsylvania, another key state that was still working its way through hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots, should be permitted to accept late-arriving ballots sent by Election Day.
It also said it has filed lawsuits in Michigan and Pennsylvania seeking to halt vote counting, arguing that officials had failed to allow fair access to counting sites.
"The Trump campaign is filing a number of meritless lawsuits around the country. Don't be deceived," Democratic Party lawyer Marc Elias said on Twitter. "They know they have lost and this is all they have left." (Reporting by Makini Brice and Jan Wolfe; editing by Sonya Hepinstall)
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