Judge rules Fulton must appoint two GOP nominees to election board

A judge late Friday ordered the Fulton County Board of Commissioners to appoint two Republican election critics to its election board.

Senior Superior Court Judge David Emerson, who presided over the case, said the Democratic-controlled commission violated the order he issued last week when they failed to appoint the GOP nominees.

“The court views the efforts of the defendants at this point as an effort to delay those appointments in bad faith,” he wrote in his Friday order.

The ruling is the latest in an ongoing legal fight over whether the commission must appoint the two nominees of the Fulton County Republican Party to the board. Commissioners rejected them in a party-line vote in May, over concerns about their qualifications and past actions questioning election results and re