The Georgia State Election Board voted to take some duties away from the nonpartisan chair and asked the Trump administration to get involved in investigating Fulton County’s handling of the 2020 election.

Shithole state cements republiQan hegemony. Check your state today.

  • Consolidates power by stripping non-partisian chair from hiring duties
  • Does so in surpise five-minute vote without discussion
  • Blocks Lyft from offering discounted rides to polling stations
  • other shitty things

“This is a last-minute request I was not aware of until five minutes ago,” Fervier said.

“Life’s full of last-minute things that happen,” Mills responded.

The back-and-forth over hiring authority came after the board hired a new paralegal and assistant to the executive director who was criticized for not having a legal background or formal legal training.

The new hire, Hope Coan, is the wife of former executive director Mike Coan, a Republican ex-state lawmaker who left his board position earlier this year.

The nonpartisan chair Fervier tried to raise concerns about the appointment, but was cut off by the new executive director Mills.

“I do not think this individual meets the necessary qualifications for this job, and the hiring process itself was improper,” Fervier said. “That is out of order,” Mills replied.

Hope Coan’s LinkedIn says she is president of Coan Construction. The staffer she is replacing was certified as a notary public, completed a paralegal certificate course and had worked for more than a year as a paralegal at a law firm.

Democratic member Sara Tindall Ghazal said she was not included in the search at all.

  • fartographer@lemmy.world
    13·
    9 days ago

    “This is a last-minute request I was not aware of until five minutes ago,” Fervier said.

    “Life’s full of last-minute things that happen,” Mills responded.

    And then they organically broke out into song about how life’s full of last-minute things and that doesn’t mean there’s a conspiracy. Complete with perfect harmonies, all the Jews and Muslims had to excuse themselves on account of all the ham.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    9 days ago

    I said it back when, as GA Secretary of State, he orchestrated his own election in 2018, and I’ll say it again now: Kemp successfully pulling that off and destroying any and all relevant evidence was basically the prototype for the RNC’s national-level election fraud strategy going forward from that point.