The Executive Director of the State Election Board Mike Coan presented his investigation into a number of counties this afternoon in Atlanta. The investigation was initiated after conservative activists charged a number of counties with failing to properly investigate voter challenges.
Coan said that based on his investigation, the implicated counties engaged in wrongdoing.
“It appears there is a systematic denial of voter challenges, especially when there’s a large batch of challenges.”
Coan said that he talked to both Democrats and Republicans during the proceedings, at one point calling into question his own qualifications.
“That’s the way I went about it. That’s the only way I knew how to go about it. I’m not an investigator.”
Though Athens-Clarke County was among the counties Coan aimed to investigate, he was not able to speak with county officials in the ten-day period he conducted the investigation. He was able to determine, however, that Athens-Clarke County did not receive or dismiss any mass voter challenges.
