Georgia State Election Board subpoenas Fulton County 2020 election records

The Georgia State Election Board voted to subpoena Fulton County's 2020 election records amid a legal fight over election monitors.

The board voted 3-2 on Tuesday to subpoena all election records from the 2020 election in Fulton County, the Associated Press reported. The vote came a day after Fulton County filed a lawsuit claiming that the board does not have the authority to make the county "accept, and Fulton County to pay for, additional monitors for the 2024 election that have been hand-picked by certain State Election Board members."

In May, the board decided that an agreement between itself and the county must be reached by August for election monitors for this election cycle, as a result of issues the county had in the 2020 election. However, an agreement was not reached and the county hired its own team without the board's approval. The board had proposed a different election monitor team that the county rejected.

Board member Janice Johnston on Tuesday said that Fulton County appeared to not be cooperating and proposed to subpoena 2020 election documents, which the two other Republican members also voted with her to approve.

"Consolidated return sheets, opening and closing tapes, daily recap sheets from early voting, poll pad recap sheets, absentee ballot recap sheets, ballot images, log files, tabulation files, a numbered voter list, absentee numbered list of voters, absentee ballot oath envelopes, security verification forms, and chain of custody forms of the poll manager and technician. And Fulton County must appear at the next meeting," Liz Harrington, former Trump campaign spokesperson, posted on X on Tuesday.