🧵GA @GaSecofState and Fulton GOP leaders want to take over Fulton Cty. Elections. This is a very dangerous idea for every GA voter and candidate, regardless of party.
This thread will explain the dishonest claims that SOS and RNC are making in court defending takeovers. 1/
2/ These excerpts are from brief we @CoalitionGoodGv filed last night as part of fighting SB202, including the takeover provisions.
RNC has intervened and defends the takeover w/ SOS.
We show their dishonesty and outrageous claims.
Link to full brief at end.
3/ RNC claims that there are 7 "protections" of the board (but they do not exist.) In fact the facts are the opposite of what RNC claims:
4/ These arguments relate to whether under SB202 the county board members ("superintendent") being removed by the St. Bd are given Due Process as US Constitutional demands.
5/ The answer of course is NO, but notice how the RNC tries to tell the Court something different.
The full board can be fired even if they were not on board when rule violations occurred.
The St. Bd can fast track the removal and not do performance review.
6/ There is no requirement for the individual board member to even get a notice of the hearing where he might be removed, or even have the chance to defend himself.
7/ For counties like Chatham Co. (+ about 40 small counties) with a Bd of Registration (charged with voter reg. & absentee balloting), St. Board can fire registrar based on violations of the "superintendent" --an unrelated entity.
And then registrar's office stays vacant!
8/ They don't even promise not to do such an egregious thing
9/ They even say it's good policy that is justified!
10/ What happens if citizens push back on the SOS?
Four of our 14 plaintiffs are now under investigation by SOS. Just coincidence or retribution?
11/ When @dufort_jeanne discovered the errors in the ballot scanners that were not counting all the votes and stood up publicly to the SOS, it was just a matter of time before she would become the target.
12/ You can find the full brief here.
bit.ly/RtoMTD_CGG
We are fighting hard against several more unconstitutional provisions of SB202 as well. ⬇️⬇️
13/ We are basically the only group challenging these dangerous provisions of takeover and shutdown of transparency.
Please help our very small org. taking on the big guys!
bit.ly/CGGDonate
14/ To show you how outrageous the retaliation is, check out the video that Plaintiff Antwan Lang is under investigation for! Anyone see any criminal violation here? Ridiculous!
facebook.com/antwan.lang/vi…
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