One of the less-noticed aspects of the sweeping voting law Georgia passed earlier this year was among the most worrying to voting rights advocates: the power that SB 202 gave the state legislature to get involved in elections. Now, the legislature has begun to act on those powers.
Republican lawmakers in the state have taken the first step toward replacing the elections administrator in Georgia’s most populous county.
As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution first reported, two dozen state senators wrote to the State Election Board calling for a performance review for Fulton County’s elections director, Richard Barron. Several members of the state House of Representatives followed suit although the House letter sought a review of the county election board. The matter will next go to the state board, which has the authority to install its own county elections superintendent for at least nine months, after a review.
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