Lawmakers are using a tool created by the state's sweeping new election law to exert influence over local elections — a move that Democrats and voting rights advocates decry as an invitation for political interference.
ATLANTA — Republican lawmakers in Georgia have started a process that could lead to a takeover of elections in the state’s most populous county.
“I wrote the letter as a representative of constituents who have expressed concerns over the sloppy manner in which elections were conducted in Fulton County in 2020 and in the years leading up to then,” Jones, who represents a suburban north Fulton district, said Friday. Under the law that Georgia Republicans pushed through this year, the letters could lead to the State Election Board removing Fulton's five-member election board. But there remains uncertainty about how the process would work.
Mallory Blount, a spokesperson for Kemp, said the Fulton board has chronically shown “poor management and incompetence.” Jones, Albers and others say the Senate letter is sufficient to start the process. Mashburn declined to comment. Sara Tindal Ghazal, the only Democratic appointee to the state board, says she has questions.Under the new law, the state election board must mount a preliminary investigation and hold a hearing within 90 days of a request.
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