Wait a minute!
The lawmakers have no legal right to call for a SB202 performance review of Rick Barron. He is management staff, NOT a board member.
The lawmakers can only seek a performance review of the entire board. This is very much out of bounds going after management!! 1/
2/If anyone wondered whether the lawmakers would overreach in their efforts to intervene in county elections, this is all the proof you need.
Look at what they wrote in the letter, misquoting the law.
The law permits the review of the Fulton Board, not an individual employee.
3/ Whether or not you are a Rick Barron fan, one needs to realize that his employment is a decision to be made by the COUNTY board, NOT by state officials' overreach.
Thanks, @ben_brasch for publishing the letter. Only then can we see the purported legal basis for this egregious action.
Please help us at @CoalitionGoodGv fight our legal battle against SB202 to stop this kind of state overreach and intervention in local elections by partisan actors. bit.ly/CGGDonate
We @CoalitionGoodGv have asked @ben_brasch and @AJC to expand the story to include the very important fact that was left out of the story that the lawmakers have no legal right to use SB202 to conduct a performance review of management. The are limited to a BOARD review.
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1/ Consider the value of transparency of election records being proven in real time!
The wildly irresponsible claims of @VoterGa and @GAballots about Fulton ballot counts, falsely claiming thousands of double counted votes and fraud are being debunked by ordinary citizens...
2/ These citizens seem to be individuals working alone and analyzing the images of the ballots against the wild claims of the @voterga folks. Transparency is a wonder drug!!
We @CoalitionGoodGv and @ajc have both published hundreds of thousands of Fulton images, like this.
3/ Why is it possible? Thank @sheaforgeorgia (D) and Rep. Shaw Blackmon (R) for a bipartisan effort to make ballot images public records that passed in March.
Now anyone can review the images.
And generous donors to @CoalitionGoodGv funded the purchase of images from Fulton.
The problems with @GaSecofState' audit were inevitable from day it was announced.
We @CoalitionGoodGv sent this letter to the press and county election officials on Nov. 12 raising some of the very issues that have invited so much misinformation.
➡️ conta.cc/3kp4ygK 1/
2/ The SOS issued a LOT of false statements, misinformation, nonsensical directions to the counties, and imposed an impossible deadline given the working conditions.
He insisted that they use a software program that was not designed for this scale of "audit," assuring failure.
3/ Ask any of the many data entry workers who had to deal with an electronic audit worksheet where they could not see what data they were entering, or checking it for accuracy.
Monitors were not permitted to check accuracy of anything.
Transparency failure!
1 So @TuckerCarlson and @GAballots are breaking GA's new absurd unconstitutional SB202 law when they take these photographs and videos of voted ballots.
Although I disagree with most of their claims, I'll fight for their ability to show us the evidence!
SB202 outlawed this. ⬇️
2/ Why did @GaSecofState insist on making it illegal to show pictures of ballots, and pushed that in SB202?
We have sued to have this language declared unconstitutional. We call it the "Photography Ban."
3/ And if a reporter or poll watcher saw these ballots being scanned twice, it is now, thanks to @GaSecofState' language in SB202, a crime for anyone to report it to the public or law enforcement!
We are suing to block this "gag rule."
We @CoalitionGoodGv have not had a lot to say (yet!) about the @VoterGa claims of thousands of inaccurately counted ballots in Fulton. We believe there are definitely some inexcusable errors, but the claims appear to be wildly exaggerated as to impacts on official results. 1/
2/ We have confirmed that two batches of 100 ballots were scanned twice, and they were likely counted twice but we are still confirming whether the duplicate scanned votes recorded as official.
But don't let @GaSecofState off the hook on this.
He certified the tallies.
3/ SOS had audit tallies long before he let Fulton officials see them. He claimed that everything balanced, (it didn't). He ordered a machine recount with ridiculous processes, and of course got a sloppy result. (Not just from Fulton).
1/ Hey, @GAballots and @VoterGa, where does this 4,255 "extra votes" allegation come from?
I assume that it is NOT that 4K votes were added to any official totals, right?
Note below that hand count tally is 634 more than original.
2/ We agree that there are 2 batches (so far) that were scanned twice and appear (?) to be counted twice. We are still confirming the vote count impact.
Are there more than 2 batches scanned twice?
How are you confirming that they were counted twice?
3/ And no one should let @GabrielSterling and @GaSecofState off the hook here. They had audit numbers and recount numbers before officials at Fulton had them. They said that all the numbers "checked out" and certified them.
I wouldn't brush off this DeKalb takeover attempt as fast as you do, @Brambleman.
I think that there are GOP leaders in some counties who would sacrifice local bi-partisan oversight to gain top down non-transparent autocratic election management.
See below .1/
2/ The @ajc doesn't have it quite right on how the takeovers can work. While yes, a "performance review" can be initiated by various officials, the far more direct route is for the St. Board to act on its own motion to remove the county board on 3 trivial "violations."
3/ The @ajc oddly does not mention the more realistic possibility of SEB taking over the county bd. on its own motion, and can be recommended by anyone, like McCarthy.
It's a dangerous thing she's doing, and can have grave anti-democratic results if the SEB listens to her.