Staunch election denier appointed to Georgia county’s board of elections | Georgia
A Atlanta-Alan district appointed a loyal election auditor with a history of challenging voter recordings, a very important position to doubt the consequences of future elections.
Dekalb district Republican Committee Gail Lee and a second Republican activist nominated, but William Henderson’s nomination was rejected last week after a letter campaign by the District Democratic Committee and Voting Rights Activists by the Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of Dekalb District.
Since the 2020 elections, Lee has challenged the record of hundreds of voters in the district of Dekalb, and Donald started his efforts after Trump’s narrow loss to Joe Biden in 2020. Lee. He told CBS News In December 2023, he believed that Trump won and participated in the 2022 conference organized by the election network of the 2020 election denial group of the Trump campaign in Georgia.
Georgia State Director Kristin Naberers at the Voting Rights Defense Organization, “A known election auditor who has repeatedly trying to remove the voters of the Dekalb District Election Board from the rolls of the Dekalb District Election Board is a slap against decalb voters.” He said.
“Lee is the architect of mass voter challenges against its neighbors in Dekalb district,” he added. “Over again, he tried to remove the Georgians from their right to vote and continued a lie flow about our elections and the hardworking authorities who ruled them. Those who lie over and over again and support the results of the voting should not have a say on our choices.”
Lee did not return a call and text seeking comments.
Dekalb County’s 500,000 registered voters of approximately 370,000 people made a ballot in the 2024 presidential elections and won 82% of Kamala Harris and represented one of the eight votes he won in the state.
Each of the republican and democratic parties of the district nominates two people to serve in the election board of the district within four years. The fifth member was named by the head of the district of the district.
In a letter that explains that he rejected Henderson, Morris said, ışma more than 200 correspondence from the public ”and public statements and“ an ongoing case against the board of directors by Mr. Henderson. ”
Henderson is also a productive voter recordings in Dekalb County. In 2024, Henderson filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court, which claimed to have violated the law by refusing to take into account the difficulties of the Decalb District Registration Board and Elections Board within 90 days of the election. Morris, the case as an obstacle to the appointment, said.
“I do not believe that the appointment of Mr. Henderson to the board of directors will carry the goals of making the elections reliable and reliable in the eyes of the people, Mor said Morris. “On the contrary, I am worried that he will do the opposite of his appointment because he has tried to do it with public statements in the past.”
Henderson did not accept Morris’s decision, he described his legal proceedings as Mandamus letter, not a case.
When asked whether the 2020 election was running fairly, Henderson said: “The election of 2020 took place five years ago and is not something we need to take care of right now.” He added that asking the question is an indication of prejudice.
Henderson said, “The whole reason for being involved is to make sure that our voter roller is correct, concise, legal and clean,” henderson said. Through a social media campaign, he characterized the opposition of the “produced” nomination by the Democrats and Women’s Voters League. “I don’t think these 200 letters are relevant.”
