Brad Raffensperger demands firing of Fulton County, Georgia, election officials after double-counted ballots

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger demanded the firing of two high-profile election officials in Fulton County, Georgia, on Thursday after it was revealed a number of ballots were double-counted during the 2020 presidential election.

Raffensperger urged local officials to terminate both Rick Barron, the Fulton elections director, and Ralph Jones, the registration chief, for "Continued failures." Earlier in the week, it was revealed that nearly 200 absentee ballots were scanned twice after digital images of the paperwork were made public under the Peach State's new voting law, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

NEARLY 200 ABSENTEE BALLOT INITIALLY COUNTED TWICE IN GEORGIA'S FULTON COUNTY. "Every time we think we've reached the peak of Fulton's elections mismanagement issues, more comes to light," Raffensperger told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Trump lost the state of Georgia by around 12,000 votes, and Republican allies of the former president have sought to contest the ballot counts throughout the state, particularly in Fulton County, after election officials were slower to report tallies in the aftermath of the election.

A report written by an independent election observer monitoring the November election in Fulton, which includes much of Atlanta, found the county's election was sloppily handled but did not uncover any fraud.

Raffensperger opened an investigation last month into the handling of paperwork in Fulton County related to the use of drop boxes for the 2020 election.

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