Takeover of Fulton elections considered by Georgia Republicans

[Nevilledog]

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Mark Niesse
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With a rising drumbeat of criticism, several Republican Georgia legislators are building a case for the state government to take over Fulton County elections, as allowed by the state's new voting law. #gapol

Takeover of Fulton elections considered by Georgia Republicans
Several Republican Georgia legislators are laying the groundwork for a potential state takeover of elections in Fulton County, which has a history of problems. But voting rights organizations say...
ajc.com
10:08 AM · Jul 26, 2021

https://www.ajc.com/politics/takeover-of-fulton-elections-considered-by-georgia-republicans/PN3BIED4SREBBI3JG4DUZYHQJM/

With a rising drumbeat of criticism, several Republican Georgia legislators are building a case for the state government to take over Fulton County elections.

The newfound power to fire local elections management, created by Georgia’s voting law, worries voting rights advocates, who say it could be abused for partisan purposes to tamper with the heavily Democratic county.

They see a threat predicated on relentless attacks — from Donald Trump to state lawmakers — that point to problems both real and imagined in the county. Though a state monitor reported sloppy management, three counts of Fulton’s ballots arrived at similar results and state election investigators haven’t found fraud.

Democrat Joe Biden beat Trump in the 2020 election, but the Republican and his followers said he was robbed and targeted Fulton County for much of their ire. Judges have thrown out several lawsuits claiming the presidential election was stolen.

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[lagomorph777]

1. Well, President Biden, is it time to kill the Filibuster yet?

Or are we just going to let the Reptilians get away with murdering our democracy?

[CrackityJones75]

9. He leads the senate?

News to me.

[lagomorph777]

14. He influences the Senate; he has many colleagues there.

Duh.

[zaj]

2. Such weak language

"worries"
"could be abused"
"tamper"
"problems both real and imagined"

[CrispyQ]

3. What happened to the Fulton County DA election fraud investigation into Trump?

I googled for that a couple of days ago & can't find anything more current than last spring.

[Hoyt]

5. Honestly, I think it was just a bunch of hype by the DA. There is plenty of proof trump tried to

extort state leaders to "find him 11,008 votes." By now, the DA should have filed charges if they had any intention of doing so.

I doubt a jury in Georgia would convict trump anyway.

[Nevilledog]

7. Supposedly it's been placed on back burner because of all the violence in Atlanta.

[Politicub]

4. This is why the election law was passed. People were so hung up

on water that the real awfulness of the law was obscured.

And here we are. I expect the Dekalb election board will be taken over by the republican-led state legislature, too.

[CrispyQ]

8. GOTV won't matter anymore if the GOP is successful.

It doesn't feel like our side is taking this very seriously though. Biden's ok with the filibuster, no one on our side seems able to twist Manchin's or Sinema's arms, DiFi doesn't think our democracy is in danger, & the DOJ hasn't done anything about that clusterfuck down in AZ since the letter they sent back in June. No one knows how to demoralize the democratic base more than the Democratic Party.

[Politicub]

11. It is frustrating. N/t

[Hoyt]

6. I'm not too concerned for next several elections. The court cases filed so far and those that would

surely come if State tried to take over Fulton or Dekalb County would make any election a mess.

[PortTack]

13. Agree... easy to say our side isn't doing anything? There are 7...seven law suits including one from

The DOJ against he GA law. What would ppl have them do?

[DFW]

10. Stalinist Republicans (again)

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."

--attributed to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

Before the wall (and the credibility of the Parti Communiste Français) fell, PCF boss Georges Marchais, a rich Stalinist himself, was once asked what he would do if his party was elected to power in France. He was then asked if his party would reliquish power if the voters would vote them out. His answer, "why would they ever vote us out of power?"

[Bettie]

12. So, is this where they will explicitly

say "No voting for Black people"?

You know it will happen somewhere eventually and the current SCOTUS will very likely say "yeah, that's cool".