Georgia’s most populous county, which has had a history of voting problems and was a focus of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, has approved a plan for an independent monitor to oversee this year’s general election.
FILE - A voter leaves a polling site for the presidential primary election, March 12, 2024, in Atlanta . On Thursday, July 11, Georgia ’s most populous county — Fulton County — which has had a history of voting problems and was a focus of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, approved a plan for an independent monitor team to oversee this year’s general election.
In a July 3 letter to county Board of Commissioners Chair Robb Pitts, Woolard said she took the role in an interim capacity to run the May primary and June primary runoff elections and that “it is time to let someone who can serve through the fall elections take the reins.” “Even though people want to tear down Fulton County for things that may or may not have happened in the past, we have moved on from that. Others may not have, but we have moved on from there and really great things have been happening,” Woolard said, expressing full confidence in elections director Nadine Williams, who was hired permanently in February 2023.
It features a five-person monitoring team that includes: Lynn Bailey, former Richmond County elections director; Monica Childers, U.S. Election Assistance Commission elections expert; Ryan Germany, former general counsel for the Georgia secretary of state’s office; Carter Jones, the independent monitor appointed to evaluate Fulton’s elections in 2020; and Matt Mashburn, a former State Election Board member and former Republican poll watcher.
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