On March 31, 2021, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed Senate Bill 202 into law, titled the Election Integrity Act of 2021. The law made significant changes to how elections were administered in the Peach State. David Belle Isle, a Republican candidate for Secretary of State, shared his vision on how to lead the office under the new law.
“Secretary of State, prior to Senate Bill 202, was the chairman and voting member of the state board of elections, and now that Secretary of State has no seat other than a non-voting seat on that board,” Belle Isle told The Epoch Times. “So the rules are made by the State Board of Election of which the Secretary of State has no vote. The 159 county board of elections no longer answers directly to the Secretary of State. The election law is made by the state legislature and it’s interpreted by our courts.”
