GA AnonsRepublicans pick Fulton elections critic for State Election Board
Janice Johnston joins state board as it considers Fulton takeover
Janice Johnston, a retired obstetrician, speaks to the Fulton County Elections Board on Aug. 12. The Georgia Republican Party nominated Johnston to the State Election Board on Monday.
Credit: Fulton Government Television
Janice Johnston, a retired obstetrician, speaks to the Fulton County Elections Board on Aug. 12. The Georgia Republican Party nominated Johnston to the State Election Board on Monday.
By Mark Niesse
Jan 18, 2022
The Georgia Republican Party has nominated a critic of Fulton County’s elections to the State Election Board, which has the newfound power to remove the county’s elections board.
The nominee, retired obstetrician Janice Johnston, has spoken against Fulton during county election board meetings since the 2020 election, calling for the firing of the county’s elections director, criticizing the job performance of temporary election workers and repeating unsubstantiated allegations of “falsified tally sheets” during an audit.
==Johnston will play a key role on the State Election Board as a performance review of Fulton is already underway=. After the review, the state board could vote to replace the county’s election board with an appointed administrator, a power granted as part of Georgia’s voting law, Senate Bill 202.
The board is also responsible for reviewing allegations of voting infractions and imposing fines.
Johnston didn’t return messages seeking comment Tuesday.
Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer said Johnston is qualified for the job.
“She has served as a poll worker, poll watcher and absentee ballot monitor. She has been monitoring as a citizen the meetings of the State Election Board. She is retired now from her medical practice and has full time to devote to this important responsibility,” Shafer said.
State law requires Gov. Brian Kemp to immediately appoint political party nominees to the State Election Board. Johnston will replace Ahn Le, whose two-year term expired at the end of last year. A spokeswoman for Kemp confirmed Tuesday his office received the nomination but hadn’t yet taken further action.
Johnston joins two other Republicans on the five-member State Election Board: Ed Lindsey, who was nominated this month by House Speaker David Ralston, and Matt Mashburn, whom the state Senate confirmed last year. The Democratic Party of Georgia nominated Sara Tindall Ghazal to the board last year.
The fifth seat on the State Election Board is vacant since Georgia’s voting law removedSecretary of State Brad Raffensperger last year. The majority-Republican General Assembly has the authority to appoint someone to fill that seat during this year’s legislative session.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/republicans-pick-fulton-elections-critic-for-state-election-board/FW7BG37G7ZHQZIQU364GGPVA5Y/
(This is the woman shaking up GA, on the GA Election Board, and Trump mentioned her name and the board at the rally in GA this week, that was getting down to what happened in GA.The State senators earlier said Raffensberger couldn't be involved. There are some very quiet patriots in the state Senate. They actually tried to get Kemp involved but he didn't back the audit of 2020. Not that they don't have their own skeletons, but they did something)
PS: Burt Jones is on the gov, Lt. Governor of GA, he's a Trump supporter and remember Fani Willis tried to indict him (wouldn't be surprised if Fani was Kemp's and Bidan's attack dog and she went after Jones. Why is she is still in her gov position?) Jones won his case against her, and has been inside seeing whats been going on.
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Burt Jones
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The 13th Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, Burt Jones took office in January 2023.Jones served in the State Senate from 2013 until his election to Lieutenant Governor in the 2022 general election. A 6th-generation Jackson native, Jones works in his family’s business, Jones Petroleum, and was co-captain of the 2002 SEC Championship-winning University of Georgia Bulldogs football team.
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I'm pretty sure Kemp didn't expect Burt Jones to be elected. KEK