Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s chief attorney recently met with Atlanta-based Carter Center officials to have international election observers monitor the “operational infrastructure” of the Nov. 8th general election in Georgia’s most populous county. What some GOP activists are already calling “an unholy alliance” was then ratified by the Democrat-dominated Fulton County Board of Elections chaired by Cathy Woolard, former consultant to Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight organization.
In light of this unprecedented intrusion into American domestic politics, InsiderAdvantage has also learned of growing concern among Georgia Republicans that this could lead to election tampering, and that a complaint by a GOP attorney is about to be submitted to the five-member state Board of Elections chaired by Judge William Duffey.
Investigative reporting by The Georgia Record uncovered that the agreement among the parties granted The Carter Center election access in Fulton County for a 60-day period from October 14th to December 12th. After that there is to be a final report to a Performance Review Board (PRB) of the Secretary of State’s office. (Ryan Germany, Raffensperger’s general counsel, is the lead appointee on this board.)
The following comes from The Georgia Record:
“In a Freudian slip at the 10/13/22 Fulton BOER meeting, noticeably nervous Chairman Cathy Woolard said, ‘We’ve had a request from the Performance Review Board and the Secretary of Sta- (I mean err excuse me) and the Carter Center to ask if they can participate in observing our election processes.’ This points directly to the coordinated ‘invitation’ of the review body with the subject of the review to potentially ‘fix’ or ‘neutralize’ the conclusions of a statutory performance review as outlined in OCGA § 21-2-106 & 107. It appears that this would also be a perfect opportunity for Cathy Woolard …and (Carter Center) CEO Paige Alexander to sway the assessment left and perhaps find more conservative targets to stigmatize.”
According to lawyers contacted by InsiderAdvantage, there is no legal basis for corporations to have internal, real-time election investigative roles in Georgia counties that oversee elections.
Again, from The Georgia Record:
“Considering that Georgia Congressmen Buddy Carter, Jodi Hice, Austin Scott, and Andrew Ferguson have recently challenged the Carter Center’s direct collaborations with the Chinese Communist Party, this may rise to the level of national security. They observed the Carter Center maneuver into the risk-limiting audit in 2020, and the actions concerned them. In just early October, (The Carter Center) also gained access to the logic and analysis testing space in Arizona.”
“Those involved in the work of poll watching in all political units are particularly appalled, as are those who understand the Communist threat and respect the rule of law,” The Georgia Recorder continues. “Under OCGA § 21-2-408, the sources of needed poll observers are political parties, political bodies, and candidate committees. The reference to ‘observer’ or ‘monitor’ is in the previous code and in OCGA § 21-2-386, referring to public citizen oversight for the absentee ballot tabulation in each county. Again, there is no provision for corporate observation bodies, no matter the political stance or skillset they claim.”
“Instead of acting as an independent board of three competent persons called by the State Election Board to issue a report of its findings per GA Code § 21-2-107 (2021), it appears that the PRB has entered into an access agreement with the Carter Center to ‘snow’ their long-overdue job report.”
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