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Which also affect the entire state. it's a scary situation. >> reporter: he has posted about qanon more than a dozen times including this supportive tweet. hate to say it, but a hell of a lot of information posted by q is accurate. red, white, and keep in mind as chair of the election board johnson is in charge of the county's certification board. johnson always acts professionally -- >> but the community has concerns where they could potentially impact the outcome of the election. >> reporter: now cnn has learned the fulton county district attorney plans to subpoena ben johnson and two other ...

Election. >> reporter: now cnn has learned that the fulton county district attorney intends to subpoena ben johnson and two other spaulding county elections officials as part of the investigation into efforts by donald trump and his allies to overturn georgia's to 2020 presidential election. there is a concerted effort to suppress the vote of people in this country. there is an effort to make people believe that the government does not believe in democracy. and that's just not, that's just not true. >> reporter: election deniers who are now in charge of elections across the country are a conce...

The integrity of the system. cnn's drew griffin joins us with the latest on this. drew, what have you seen? >> these are the people that run the elections, that are still hanging on to the disproven myths of 2020, and the question is, john, can they run fair elections in 2022? >> so -- >> in meetings, the chair of the spaulding county georgia election board sounds like any other government official. >> we hang our political hats at the door when we come in and do the people's work. there ain't no room for politics in elections. >> reporter: but county elections chairman ben johnson's actions o...

Doubt. >> reporter: in meetings they sound lick any other political action. >> reporter: johnson is beyond partisan, a staunch election denier. on social media he posted two fellow insurrectionists and he posted biden is an illegitimate president. >> i think the whole structure in the spaulding county is an insider threat. >> reporter: last month johnson wrote, going to do anything about 2020. the flow of data should not pass through a foreign country. >> which is one of the key fictitious themes. he believes in this disproven theory. >> yet he is now running the elections of spaulding county,

Conspiracies that voting machines contain hackable wireless devices. >> how am i supposed to know if anybody has used that wireless device to access our system? >> reporter: the danger is that these are people who may lie about election results, who are certainly likely to cast doubt about the trustworthiness of elections. >> as for ben johnson and what he has to say about all of this, in a word, nothing. he's refused to answer questions. in an email, accused cnn of being on a witch hunt when we went to his spaulding county offices, we were told on the phone that he was in a meeting, but when ...