Earlier at present, The Gateway Pundit reported on no less than three democrats on the Fulton County Board of Commissioners who refused to seat the lawfully nominated Republican Social gathering nominees Jason Frazier and Julie Adams.
Commissioners Ivory and Barrett took to Instagram to precise their disgust that “election deniers” could be appointed to the board and vowed to carry out regardless of the prices. Fellow commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr posted on Instagram that he’d be prepared to go jail over this.
This morning, Superior Courtroom Choose David Emerson discovered “past an affordable doubt that the Board of Commissioners has did not adjust to the court docket’s order” and has held the Board in civil contempt. Starting on Friday, August twenty ninth at 12pm, the Board will probably be fined $10,000 for day by day that they fail to nominate the Republican Social gathering’s members to the Board of Elections.
He additional famous that the high quality “is to be paid every day” however stopped wanting holding the respondents in prison contempt.
Choose Emerson additionally awarded lawyer’s charges “incurred in each the bringing of this case to compel compliance with the related native laws and for the intentional failure to adjust to the court docket’s order imposing the legislation.” Emerson additional wrote:
The court docket does discover that the respondent Board of Commissioners has been stubbornly litigious and acted in dangerous religion in its conduct previous to this litigation by its failure to adjust to clear native laws which pressured the plaintiff to file this motion. The court docket additional finds that it has precipitated the plaintiff pointless troublesome within the conduct of this litigation by its failure to adjust to the court docket’s order. (emphasis added)
BREAKING: Georgia Choose orders Fulton County Board of Commissioners to pay $10,000 per day high quality for rogue Democrats who refuse to nominate Republican nominees to Fulton County Board of Elections as required by legislation.
Fulton County taxpayers will now be footing the invoice for… pic.twitter.com/mZPqoyktcB
— CannCon (@CannConActual) August 27, 2025
Learn the choose’s order right here: 25cv008083—order
Within the 2020 Presidential Election in Fulton County, then-Board of Elections member Mark Wingate and Kathleen Ruth refused to certify the election outcomes as a result of they weren’t supplied with, amongst different issues, chain of custody paperwork.
Wingate testified through the 2024 disbarment listening to of former DOJ Assistant Lawyer Common Jeff Clark that when he inquired how Fulton County carried out signature verification when the county’s model new BlueCrest sorter machines had been inoperable, he was advised “we did not do any [signature verification].”
This situation once more got here up throughout a movement to quash a subpoena listening to for Harrison Floyd, one of many folks indicted throughout Fani Willis’s RICO case in Georgia. Throughout that listening to, Fulton County attorneys argued that it might take tens of hundreds of hours to find and replica signature templates used for verification and acknowledged that the BlueCrest million-dollar machines weren’t functioning for the 2020 election depend.