08/09/2026
August DGOP Breakfast: ๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ช๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ข๐๐ฟ ๐ฉ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฅ๐ผ๐น๐น๐ ๐ณ๏ธ
Saturday morning's DGOP Breakfast brought in two people who've spent years in the weeds of Georgia's election system:
- Dr. Jan Johnston, who served four years on the Georgia State Election Board, and
- Jason Frazier, a State Election Board investigator who has personally filed thousands of formal voter registration challenges across the state.
Their message: ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฒ๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฟ๐ผ๐น๐น, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ผ๐น๐น ๐ถ๐๐ป'๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ, ๐ป๐ผ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฑ๐ผ๐๐ป๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐๐น๐น๐ ๐๐ฟ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฒ๐ถ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ก๐๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ป'๐ ๐๐ฑ๐ฑ ๐จ๐ฝ
Per Election Assistance Commission data, Georgia's statewide voter registration has run around 103% of the citizen voting-age population โ the national average is closer to 73%. DeKalb County's own rate has climbed even higher, to roughly 109โ111%.
When Georgia voluntarily ran its rolls through the federal SAVE database, it turned up nearly 43,000 deceased registrants still on the books, about 2,500 apparent noncitizens, and another 46,000 records the system couldn't confirm one way or the other.
๐ฅ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ฏ
Jason shared research he pulled specifically on our county: 26 pairs of registrations where a voter's first and last name appear transposed between two separate records โ same address, same birth year, but two different voter ID numbers. Each pair represents two potential ballots tied to one person. He filed it as a formal complaint months ago and is still waiting on a resolution.
One of the sharpest points of the morning: even Georgia's own State Election Board investigators don't have direct access to voter roll data to investigate complaints โ the Secretary of State's office controls that access. Jason put it plainly: an election you can't fully see or verify at every step is, in his words, a "trust me" system. Government's one job here is keeping an accurate, current list. When that job isn't done โ and oversight itself is blocked โ citizens end up doing the follow-up work themselves, one registration challenge at a time.
๐๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ป๐๐ผ๐น๐๐ฒ๐ฑ
You don't need a data background to help. Poll watching and registration review are exactly how errors like DeKalb's get found in the first place. ๐ฌ Comment "๐'๐ ๐๐ก" below and we'll connect you with our local election-integrity team.
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Conversations like this are exactly why we do these breakfasts. Come hear the next one on September 12th. Bring a neighbor who's never been before.
