Election investigators have said that those problems could be explained by human errors, such as election workers who divided ballots by each candidate. Then during the general election in November, the performance review cited errors during an audit that recounted all paper ballots by hand, such as batches of ballots with 100% of votes for a candidate and incorrect data. Voters in the 2020 primary election experienced long lines amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and some reported they never received absentee ballots they had requested. Though the performance review found “disorganization and a lack of a sense of urgency in resolving issues” in prior years, it said Fulton has made substantial changes since 2020. Under Georgia’s voting law passed in response to the 2020 election, a group of Republican legislators who represent parts of Fulton County initiated the performance review in July 2021 that could have led to a state-appointed administrator replacing the county’s elections board. “Despite that we’ve had no violations, it’s very hard to navigate through this law.”
Fulton County has been paving the way, and we need to work together collectively,” Perkins-Hooker said. Patrise Perkins-Hooker, the county’s incoming election board chairwoman, said she would ask her board to work with other counties to make election operations more accountable statewide.
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