Emails show a Georgia State Election Board member worked with Trump supporters to write rules allowing counties to refuse to certify election results.
election officials laid the groundwork for new controversial state election rules designed to give more power to those officials to arbitrarily refuse to certify election results. “Thank you all for agreeing to provide input on this proposed Rule for Certification Documents needed for Superintendents prior to certification,” Dr. Janice Johnston, the Georgia State Election Board member, wrote on May 12.
Despite acknowledging he only found a handful of errors in the results of the May 2024 primary, Hancock shared his enthusiasm for the new rules, one of which allows county election officials to deny certification of results if they decide a “reasonable inquiry” is necessary to investigate irregularities or fraud.
Democrats said the emails were evidence of continued coordination between Georgia election officials and election denial groups like Cleta Mitchell’s Election Integrity Network because Adams, the Fulton County election board member, received emails from Hancock and Johnston to an email address associated with her role at the Election Integrity Network.
Also on Monday, Gov. Brian Kemp appeared to react to calls from state Democrats to remove Johnston and fellow pro-Trump election board members King and Jeffares, when Kemp asked Attorney General Chris Carr to determine whether the governor has the authority to remove members of the board. and American Doom further expose the involvement of local election denial officials like Hancock in the promulgation of the two controversial certification rules.
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