300 voter registration applications in Fulton County, Georgia were crushed – covering more than 1 million Atlanta residents – and Two election workers were fired after being accused of breaking paperwork. It is not clear whether these applications have been processed.
The Fulton County statement said that preliminary information indicated that employees had checked batches of applications for processing, and they allegedly had torn up some forms. On Friday morning, colleagues reported the alleged behavior to their supervisor, and the two employees were fired that day. … “Usually, processing voter registration applications involves entering them into the national system, updating them, and verifying their information,” she said. “This is the question under investigation-whether this process has been completed.”
The political motives that everyone is looking for are unclear (registration is nonpartisan), but the Associated Press reported that elections in Fulton County tend to underperform, and Republicans are eager to end county control of them and implement voter restrictions statewide There.
