The Donald Trump-allied Georgia State Election Board is pushing to install people who deny the result of the 2020 presidential election as part of a monitoring team in Fulton County, the biggest Democratic-leaning county in the state and one that was consequential for Joe Biden’s victory four years ago.
The board has no legal authority to install its own recommended monitors, but that did not stop the GOP majority from voting on Tuesday to repeat its effort to include its own suggested monitoring team in Fulton County. The move, coming less than 30 days before Election Day, is the latest example of what critics say is the board acting in a way that may create chaos next month.
Both fundamentally distrust the results of the 2020 election “The person that you want is the person that pays attention to the details and reports objectively,” Johnston said in defending the recommendation the board suggested. Multiple new rules this year have been adopted by three election board members loyal to Trump, who has publicly praised their efforts, and several legal challenges have been filed against the board.
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