Tag: Fulton

Election Board Reprimands Fulton County, Will Appoint Monitor for 2024

The Georgia Election Board voted Tuesday to reprimand Fulton County for its conduct of the 2020 election and direct the appointment of an independent monitor to oversee this fall’s general election. The Georgia Recorder reported that the 2-1 vote came after investigators from the Georgia secretary of state’s office confirmed the county double-scanned 3,075 ballots […]

3 Charges Against Trump Dismissed by Fulton County Judge

The judge overseeing the election interference case against Donald Trump and others issued an order on Wednesday dismissing six charges in the case, including three against the former president. The dismissed charges related to alleged efforts by Trump and others working on his behalf to persuade elected representatives in the state to throw out President […]

Trump election case unaffected in Fulton County, Georgia, ‘cybersecurity incident,’ officials say

ATLANTA — Officials said court and other systems in Georgia’s most populous county were hacked over the weekend, interrupting routine operations, but the district attorney’s office said the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump is unaffected. Fulton County, which includes most of Atlanta, was experiencing a “widespread system outage” from a “cybersecurity incident,” county […]