[Just The News] Georgia state Sen. Greg Dolezal, a leading voice on election integrity and a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, is urging the state government to temporarily take over vote counting in Fulton County in the aftermath of an FBI raid that seized 2020 election ballots.
"We passed a law in 2021 that set the triggers in place for the state election board to take over the elections for a temporary period of time if a county proves they're incapable of following Georgia law. And if there's ever a county that's proven it, it's Fulton County," Dolezal told the Just the News, No Noise television show on Friday.
"Today, Fulton County has hundreds of people still on their voter rolls that show they were born in the year 1900, and they have thousands of people registered to vote at illegal voting locations: parking lots, homeless shelters that have been closed for a decade, UPS stores, and storage units.
"It is time for the state to step in before the 2026 general election to ensure that we can have a free and fair election so important," he said, adding it likely would only take two years of intervention to fix the problems.
Fulton County is home to the city of Atlanta, and the largest voting metropolis in the state of Georgia.
Dolezal is the first major figure in the state to call for the takeover in 2026. But he says his other colleagues in the legislature are also warming to the idea. |