Georgians who are concerned about electoral integrity have criticized the State Election Board ( SEB ) for failing to address the issues that were evident in Georgia’s elections in 2020. Tasked with” Investigating the administration of elections and frauds” and” Developing rules and regulations about what constitutes” a legal vote, among other things, the board has a great deal of power in Georgia’s elections.
The committee has historically shown little interest in seriously addressing issues involving election integrity, but in recent years, it seems as though the board’s control may be shifting.  ,
When the committee convened on July 9, a fresh part, Janelle King, sat in the seat formerly held by Ed Lindsey. In May, decades after it was revealed that Lindsey had lobbied on behalf of DeKalb and Cobb Counties, but he had refused to recuse himself from making decisions in cases involving those regions, Lindsey resigned. She had been appointed by Georgia’s GOP House in 2022. After the state double-scanned hundreds of ballots in its 2020 tell, Lindsay was also a part of the club’s decision not to bring the scandal-plagued Fulton County under investigation. Additionally, the committee voted in favor of no-excuse absentee voting in February of this year, which is a process that many election authorities find untrustworthy.
The panel is comprised of one appointment each from the State House, State Senate, the Democrat Party, and the Republican Party, with the president appointed by the governor. Now that Lindsey is gone, the committee includes Democratic Party nominee Sarah Tindall Ghazal, vocal election integrity recommend Dr. Janice Johnston, past Senator Rick Jeffares, Janelle King, and president and past Waffle House executive John Fervier. While Johnston and Jeffares tend to support the Democrats ‘ appointment, Ghazal is the appointment. Fervier, whom some protesters suspect to become allied with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, generally voted with Ghazal and Lindsey. King appears to be in line with Jeffares and Johnston.
Reexamining Fulton County Elections
At the board’s May 2024 conference, where the committee found 2020 vote misconduct in Fulton County, Johnston moved to evaluate an incendiary case that had already been decided at the July 9 meeting. The committee had voted to censure the region and assign a monitor for the 2024 vote, at Fulton’s cost.  ,
Fervier soon ruled Johnston’s action “out of buy”, but after Johnston appealed this decision of the head, Fervier made a movement for the board to “retire to professional session” to discuss the matter.  ,
In a withering criticism of the phone to retire to professional program, Johnston demanded” a perfect research” of the issues with Fulton County’s election administration in 2020. According to Johnston, appointing a check without conducting further investigation was insufficient because” there is not enough information from the research to determine what needs to be monitored in the 2024 public vote.” However, three out of the five people motioned to “adjourn to professional program”. The people left after the group yelled at them in opposition.  ,
The board eventually voted to move the matter to the August conference, which angered some onlookers who had already grown so numerous that they had to have an overflow room. Later in the meeting, the board eventually voted to shift the issue.
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Voting Qualification Challenges
At the July 9 meeting, activists at the meeting frequently raised questions about people who appear to be unable to cast ballot lawfully in Georgia. The obvious water shift on the table is a very significant growth because elected Georgia Republicans like Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger are debating some of those issues and some, if not most, state boards refuse to take those voters into account and conduct an investigation.  ,
Lucia Frazier from Fulton County cited issues with “over 10, 000 duplicate registrations” submitted in 2022, and with registrations at commercial addresses. Her husband Jason Frazier expressed concern about recent voter data access fees that have recently been raised. He also provided a report on a recent campaign by Forsyth County voters that rejected their challenge to voters who appeared to have moved and registered in another state.
Earl Ferguson from Fulton County expressed concern about the rejection of a similar challenge he filed in December 2023 after his 2020 challenge was rejected on the grounds that the same grounds had been accepted.  ,  ,
Their dissatisfaction was a clear indication of the growing gap between county boards of elections and challengers. Many routinely reject most challenges, on arguably bogus grounds, even when challengers have done all they can to comply with statutory requirements.  ,
Georgians have urged the board to provide guidance on how to handle and administer those challenges.  ,
Change to the election board records rule to allow record access
Georgians who believe county election boards have a duty to carefully examine election processes and results before certifying them, as opposed to giving results a rubber-stamp, are also pleased with the board’s new makeup. County registrars have obstructed county board members who want to inform this due diligence by refusing to grant them access to records or having the guts to demand payment from members of their own boards of elections for requests for open records.
Cobb County GOP Chairman Salleigh Grubbs proposed a rule change that guarantees such access at last week’s meeting in an effort to resolve that conflict. Grubbs ‘ motion came out on top after some back and forth with the board and a few exchanges with Chairman Fervier.  ,
An” Electoral Integrity Minded Majority”
The meeting was scheduled to end the day after the following day, but it unexpectedly was postponed that morning, in what Georgia GOP chair Josh McKoon referred to as a “unilateral, illegal action by the Chairman.” A hastily scheduled conclusion was then set for Friday, July 12 at 4 pm. Leftists were horrified to see the board’s three conservatives convened a meeting, which approved a rule change that would require the posting of the number of voters in each county on election day.
Democrats are upset because, according to McKoon,” we have an election integrity minded majority that wants to address the very real election confidence concerns of many Georgians” after YEARS of being able to direct the course of the State Elections Board.
Mark Davis is president of Data Productions, Inc., and has been working with voter data since 1986. He has been authorized and permitted to testify as an expert witness in court cases involving disputed elections five times over the past 20 years. He has also been qualified and admitted to do so.
