Final week, a choose ordered the Fulton County Board of Commissioners to seat two Republican Social gathering nominees: Jason Frazier and Julie Adams. The 2 had been nominated in Might however have but to be seated.
Two of the Democrat members, Dana Barrett and Mo Ivory, had been in a position to thwart Commissioner Bridget Thorne’s movement to substantiate the 2 Republican appointees. Due to the absence of three different members on the seven-member board, the movement was blocked in a 2-2 vote.
On August 4th, Choose David Emerson ordered the 2 nominees be confirmed as per Georgia regulation, which states that the the board’s members “shall be appointed” by the “chairperson of the county government committee of the political get together” of whichever get together has the “largest variety of votes on this state for members of the Basic Meeting”.
In that order, Choose Emerson acknowledged, “The respondent Board of Commissioners (BOC) contends the “shall” is just not necessary, however fairly “listing”, and that the county commissioners can train discretion to reject any nominee for any purpose.”
The commissioners filed a request to rethink, which was denied. So that they filed an emergency movement with the Georgia Supreme Courtroom, who moved the docket to the Georgia Courtroom of Appeals. The appeals courtroom denied the movement as effectively.
Right now, at 9am, a listening to will happen relating to the 2 members who voted in opposition to the appointments, and a 3rd who was not current however can also be refusing to nominate the 2 regardless of the Courtroom’s orders.
Commissioners Dana Barrett, Mo Ivory, and Marvin Harrington nonetheless refuse to vote for the appointments.
Barrett, who has served on the board since November 2022, took to Instagram to submit a video calling Frazier and Adams, the Republican nominees, “election deniers” and acknowledging that the Courtroom has dominated in opposition to her and her colleagues. “Our elections are beneath assault,” she mentioned, earlier than invoking Texas and President Trump’s motion to eradicate common mail-in balloting and untrustworthy black-box voting machines.
1 of two Clips:
Three Fulton County Board of Commissioners REFUSE to vote to nominate two lawfully nominated Republican members, calling them “election deniers”.
A Superior Courtroom Choose has dominated, twice, that they have to be seated citing Georgia Regulation that claims they “shall be… pic.twitter.com/ltoR7V0vb5
— CannCon (@CannConActual) August 27, 2025
Commissioner Mo Ivory additionally posted her ideas to Instagram, saying she’s “standing on [her] ideas, whether or not the millage price or about MAGA Republicans…no person can pressure me to vote “sure” on one thing that I’ve the discretion to make use of my analysis…to decide.”
“It’s harmful to start out opening the door to judges telling elected officers how they need to vote,” she continued. Satirically, the very board she is obligated by regulation to nominate has been instructed that it’s members’ votes to certify an election are ceremonial.
Commissioner Bridget Thorne, a seasoned ballot supervisor for nearly a decade earlier than her election to the BOC, responded to the partisan members throughout final week’s vote:
Commissioner @1fultonthorne responds with the fireplace, mentioning one of many GOP board members being denied was sued as a result of she refused to certify an election with out doing her due diligence within the Might 2024 main.
From Marc Elias’s personal Democracy Docket:
“Julie Adams, who… https://t.co/eiI2ZQyJnd pic.twitter.com/94otzpd6xU
— CannCon (@CannConActual) August 27, 2025
Marc Elias’s personal Democracy Docket notes that Adams is being labeled an election denier as a result of she refused to vote to certify a Georgia main election in Might 2024 as a result of she felt she was not offered sufficient data to make sure the election was legitimately run:
“Julie Adams, who presently serves on the Fulton County Board of Elections and Registration, was on the middle of Might 2024 controversy when she refused to certify the county’s main election outcomes. Adams, a distinguished election denier with ties to the far-right Election Integrity Community (EIN), refused to certify her county’s main election as a result of she claimed she didn’t have entry to all details about the voting course of so as to confirm the outcomes. “
This isn’t a brand new theme in Fulton County.
Within the 2020 Presidential Election, Mark Wingate, then a member of the identical Fulton County Board of Elections, was denied chain of custody paperwork from the election earlier than certifying the election.
Fulton Co not solely wouldn’t present chain of custody paperwork to residents for transparency, however they WOULDNT PROVIDE IT TO THEIR OWN CERTIFYING BOARD.
Like I mentioned months in the past: Fani is ABSOLUTELY prosecuting the flawed folks on the flawed facet of this.
Fulton County was flat… https://t.co/fCmeYSNw42 pic.twitter.com/EKrniYB5f8
— CannCon (@CannConActual) April 2, 2024
Worse but, Wingate was additionally instructed the county elections division was unable to function their new BlueCrest sorter machines. They had been meant for use for computerized signature verification given the inflow of mail-in ballots. When he inquired as to methods to county dealt with signature verification then, he was instructed: “We didn’t do any”.
THERE IT IS.
Testimony right this moment, beneath oath, from Fulton County Registrations and Elections Board Member Mark Wingate.
Fani Willis now KNOWS that NO signature verification was accomplished in Fulton. That 147,000 ballots that, BY LAW, are invalid.
This affect NOT JUST THE… pic.twitter.com/4J8KwAVi8V
— CannCon (@CannConActual) April 2, 2024