Georgia Secretary of State Seeking Election Takeover of Fulton County: ‘Enough Is Enough’

A Fulton County election worker removes absentee ballots for the U.S. Senate runoff elections from envelopes at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Ga., on Jan. 5, 2021. Elijah Nouvelage

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is pursuing the taking over of Fulton County’s elections operations, claiming that the Atlanta-area county has habitually failed to count votes.

“I think people are saying enough is enough,” Raffensperger said during a Just the News podcast on June 30. “I’m tired of it, but so is everyone else who lives in the other 158 counties [in Georgia].”