Who gets to observe elections? A Georgia county dukes it out with its elections board

Fulton county officials had agreed on an external team, but the board wants a team tied to the stop-the-steal movement

After voting this month to require a hand count of paper ballots on election day, the Trump-aligned trio of Georgia state elections board members turned their attention back to one of their favorite topics: how to keep an eye on Fulton county.

Georgia's most populous county is always on their mind. For people who still chant stop the steal" almost four years after the 2020 election, Fulton county remains the problem. Earlier this year, the state board entered into a voluntary agreement with Fulton county to embed an external monitoring team into the election apparatus for the 2024 contest.