Earlier today, The Gateway Pundit reported on at least three democrats on the Fulton County Board of Commissioners who refused to seat the lawfully nominated Republican Party nominees Jason Frazier and Julie Adams.
Commissioners Ivory and Barrett took to Instagram to express their disgust that “election deniers” would be appointed to the board and vowed to hold out no matter the costs. Fellow commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr posted on Instagram that he’d be willing to go jail over this.
This morning, Superior Court Judge David Emerson found “beyond a reasonable doubt that the Board of Commissioners has failed to comply with the court’s order” and has held the Board in civil contempt. Beginning on Friday, August 29th at 12pm, the Board will be fined $10,000 for every day that they fail to appoint the Republican Party’s members to the Board of Elections.
He further noted that the fine “is to be paid daily” but stopped short of holding the respondents in criminal contempt.
Judge Emerson also awarded attorney’s fees “incurred in both the bringing of this case to compel compliance with the relevant local legislation and for the intentional failure to comply with the court’s order enforcing the law.” Emerson further wrote:
The court does find that the respondent Board of Commissioners has been stubbornly litigious and acted in bad faith in its conduct prior to this litigation by its failure to comply with clear local legislation which forced the plaintiff to file this action. The court further finds that it has caused the plaintiff unnecessary difficult in the conduct of this litigation by its failure to comply with the court’s order. (emphasis added)
BREAKING: Georgia Judge orders Fulton County Board of Commissioners to pay $10,000 per day fine for rogue Democrats who refuse to appoint Republican nominees to Fulton County Board of Elections as required by law.
Fulton County taxpayers will now be footing the bill for… pic.twitter.com/mZPqoyktcB
— CannCon (@CannConActual) August 27, 2025
Read the judge’s order here: 25cv008083—order
In the 2020 Presidential Election in Fulton County, then-Board of Elections member Mark Wingate and Kathleen Ruth refused to certify the election results because they were not provided with, among other things, chain of custody documents.
Wingate testified during the 2024 disbarment hearing of former DOJ Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark that when he inquired how Fulton County conducted signature verification when the county’s brand new BlueCrest sorter machines were inoperable, he was told “we didn’t do any [signature verification].”
This issue again came up during a motion to quash a subpoena hearing for Harrison Floyd, one of the people indicted during Fani Willis’s RICO case in Georgia. During that hearing, Fulton County attorneys argued that it would take tens of thousands of hours to locate and copy signature templates used for verification and acknowledged that the BlueCrest million-dollar machines were not functioning for the 2020 election count.
