If the leaders of Fulton County’s elections department have been unfairly deflecting blame for Election Day mistakes onto part-time poll workers, an elections board member says “swift action” will be taken, declining to elaborate. Although elections Interim Director Sharon Mitchell has said some workers didn’t use voter lists correctly, the secretary of state’s office and poll workers have alleged that the head office was still printing lists and delivering them to precincts hours after voting started.
Nearly 400,000 people cast ballots in Fulton. Elections board member William Riley said he has lost so much faith in staff that he wouldn’t agree to let them count provisional ballots unsupervised until he was assured the results wouldn’t tip any races.
“We only have control over the director, and over none of the employees,” Riley said. “We will investigate the allegations, and if they are true, I am sure the board will take appropriate and swift action.”
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