Bulloch Primary Election & Open Records Fiasco

This is a video describing the experience of a Bulloch county citizen in attending the Bulloch County Board of Elections meeting on 7/11/22, 1:30pm to address some of the troubling Bulloch County Elections matters illuminated in the following article:

https://www.georgiarecord.com/open-records-request-shows-bogus-bulloch-certification-which-voids-state-primary/

Additional issues she broached in the meeting:
-VoterGA lawsuit served to them recently; encouraged them to be aware and read it carefully.
-Total inability to reach any of the board members in any way for the past month. Emails sent directly to Yawn & Campbell July 1 & 6, and not answered. Several cc’d messages involving their board. No replies. [She was told by the county attorney that she was the first person to ever try to reach the board members.]
-Emphasized her right to copy and inspect records not excluded under GA law Title 50.
-Her rights to open government documents appear to have been violated. Therefore, she urged them to work with her in getting the original ballot photocopies because the law does not exclude them.
-She emphasized the pre-eminence of Georgia law over Ryan Germany’s memo attempting to crush the right to original ballot copy and inspection.
-She emphasized the legal requirement to certify the election by the Monday following the election, or the Tuesday after Memorial Day federal holiday. That they can’t fail to certify correctly and then backdate an election certification.
-Campbell & Yawn asserted that they signed certification forms on May 27, [but it appears that they didn’t ensure they were completed to standard or attested or dated or sealed]. Theresa Jackson was absent.
-She questioned her GOP party leadership for not ensuring the certifications were done properly. GOP Chairman Reid Derr sat about 3 feet from where she was standing and said absolutely nothing nor did he ask any question whatsoever. He and Lawton Sack (a Vice Chair improperly elected by party) was invited per email to the ‘certification meeting’ on 5/27.
-Shontay Jones correctly communicated her understanding of the citizen’s original ballot requests, accurately recounted the remittance of many other requests, and mostly deferred to Ryan Germany & county attorney positions. She presented a theory involving paper shuffle that resulted in invalid certification documents being sent to the SoS. She showed some certification documents she signed and dated on an unknown date/time that Bulloch had not filed with the SoS. It is possible these documents were not signed until June 13.
-Hadley Campbell asked if she was a lawyer. She answered that VoterGA has many lawyers who have worked through this matter. The law is written for the common man and woman. He commented on the ORR.
-Jeff Yawn brought up 2020 election and how he had counted ballots and it was ok. She clarified that she was not interested in 2020 results in the least.
-Brought up her experience speaking with Commissioner Chairman Thompson & Commissioner Gibson, that they both positively recalled the days of the simple reliability of handcount and traditional voting procedures involving paper.
-She reminded them that she had written the county to ask for a handcount of the county commissioner race weeks ago. She could do it herself with the original ballot photocopies to save them the trouble. Maybe … that is the problem …

-She requested that any openings on their board be published broadly to open the resume pool to everyone in the community (they deferred to Commission’s role in that, and she agreed).

NOTE::: She requested original ballot photocopies LONG before the returns went to the Clerk of the Superior Court to go under see seal on 6/15. The Clerk sealed the records in full awareness that there was an unfulfilled open records request that seemed to be in violation of GA law.

This meeting was recorded.