Fulton County Rejects Election Deniers to Local Board of Elections

The Fulton County, Georgia Board of Commissioners voted 5-2 Wednesday to reject the GOP’s nominations of two prominent election deniers to the county board of elections. 

Julie Adams, who currently serves on the Fulton County Board of Elections and Registration, was at the center of May 2024 controversy when she refused to certify the county’s primary election results. Adams, a prominent election denier with ties to the far-right Election Integrity Network (EIN), refused to certify her county’s primary election because she claimed she didn’t have access to all information about the voting process in order to verify the results. 

Adams filed three unsuccessful lawsuits to get sensitive election data — including a list of all registered voters, voter check-in lists from each precinct and a list of all voters who requested, received and/or returned absentee ballots — in order to certify the election. 

In rejecting Adams’ reappointment to the Fulton County elections board, several members of the board of commissioners cited her refusal to certify the election, subsequent frivolous lawsuits and her ties to EIN and the Tea Party Patriots as reasons they didn’t vote for her. 

“It’s not possible to work with folks trying to sow discord and chaos,” board member Mo Ivory said during the board’s meeting, before voting to reject Adams’ reappointment.

But Adams wasn’t the only GOP appointee rejected by the board of commissioners. Jason Frazier, another prominent election denier and right-wing activist, was rejected in Wednesday’s meeting to serve on the Fulton County Board of Elections and Registration. In August 2024, Frazier filed a lawsuit against the Fulton County election board falsely claiming that they failed to properly maintain the county’s voter rolls and respond to voter challenges.

The lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed in September 2024. 

In rejecting Frazier’s nomination, Fulton commissioner Dana Barrett cited Frazier’s “egregious record of voter suppression.” 

Frazier didn’t take his rejection by the board of commissioners lightly, indicating on X that he will pursue legal action. 

“Dems on the Fulton Board of Commissioners voted No to both Republican Board of Elections nominations today,” he wrote. “Both Julie and I were nominated unanimously by the Fulton GOP… We ‘Shall’ not give up!”