Fulton Commissioners Reject Republicans But Approve Democrats for Election Board in Violation of Their Own Law

Guest post by Garland Favorito at VoterGA.

ATLANTA, GA, MAY 21, 2025 – The majority Democrat Fulton County Board of Commissioners refused their legal duty Wednesday to appoint the Republican Party nominees to the Fulton County Election Board while appointing the two Democrat Party nominees just minutes earlier. The Board voted along party lines to “file” or table both Republican nominees indefinitely. The move violates multiple Fulton County ordinances which require the board to be non-partisan and to appoint the nominees made from each political party.

Part I, Chapter 14, Section 33, of the Fulton ordinances states in Paragraph 2 that:

• ”Two members shall be appointed by the governing authority of Fulton County from nominations made by the chairperson of the county executive committee of the political party whose candidates … received the second largest number of such votes”

Each party offered two nominees for four open board slots and the board was legally obligated to appoint them provided they are Fulton County voters. The board re-appointed Democrat Teresa Crawford and appointed Democrat Douglass Selby but refused to re-appoint Republican Julie Adams or appoint Jason Frazier. Nominees were always appointed by consent until two years ago when the board rejected Jason Frazier after he was attacked by political partisans for successful challenges of ineligible voter registrations.

Part I, Chapter 2, Article2, Section 66, Code of Ethics, binds the board to be impartial in conducting its duties and orders members not to impede those persons best qualified to serve from holding public office. It states:

• “It is essential to the proper government and administration of Fulton County that members of the board of commissioners, as well as all other officers and employees of the county, are in fact and in appearance, independent and impartial in the performance of their official duties;”
• “Accordingly, the standards hereinafter set forth must be so interpreted and understood as not to unreasonably frustrate or impede the desire or inclination to seek and serve in public office by those persons best qualified to serve.”

Both Adams and Frazier are highly experienced in election law, election procedures and voter registration.

The board is now vulnerable to another lawsuit likely to waste hundreds of thousands of Fulton taxpayer dollars defending its actions. That is on top of millions of taxpayer funds already spent trying to keep ballots from the controversial 2020 election secret. Fulton county has defied subpoenas, Georgia law and a court’s order to unseal the ballots. The 2020 election ballots have been subpoenaed for active criminal cases, civil cases, State Election Board inquiries and Open Records Requests. Analyses of the ballot images already found over 17,000 missing from certified results and alteration of the images prior to certification of the votes.

An estimated $20 million more was spent after Fani Willis’ requested the board in 20221 for $5million annually to reduce the murder case backlog but spent the money on indictments of 18 political adversaries. VoterGA co-founder Garland Favorito apologized for Fulton: “I regret that my county has become a national security risk for every American citizen who votes in a federal election”.

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