By REBECCA BUIS, The Daily Signal | August 14, 2026
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is starting a new, bipartisan election integrity task force prior to the midterm elections.
The announcement comes following the announcement of the FBI’s investigation into 708 records of Fulton County’s2020 election files.
Raffensperger commented on the members of the task force in an interview, the Georgia Recorder reported.
“This group here, they’re well-respected members of the community. They’re on both sides of the aisle, but they are also recognized as being fair brokers of the truth,” he said in an interview with the news outlet.
Mike Hassinger, public information coordinator for Raffensperger, commented on the purpose of the task force.
“The task force was created to examine any issues—including voter list maintenance, public transparency, election misinformation, best practices for election administration, and county compliance with existing laws, rules, and standards,” Hassinger told the Daily Signal.
Additionally, the members “will assist with regional election worker trainings, appear at roundtable policy discussions and help coordinate with local election officials on the ground,” according to the Georgia Recorder.
The task force will include members on both sides of the political aisle, including Democrats like former Gov. Roy Barnes and former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, and Republicans like former Sen. Saxby Chambliss and former Rep. Drew Ferguson.
Hassinger says that the new task force is another effort by the state and Raffensperger to ensure “secure elections.”
“Secretary Raffensperger has spent his two terms making sure that the state of Georgia has the most secure elections in America, and he intends to keep it that way through the remainder of his time in office,” he said.
“Georgia’s standards serve as a model for any state that needs to protect every legal vote and strengthen public confidence in the elections process.”
However, some have voiced distrust of the state’s voting system.
Mark Davis, president of Data Productions Inc. and a member of the Georgia Republican Party’s Election Confidence Task Force, pointed to the controversies surrounding the 2020 election, saying, “I don’t think we’re ever going to know how much double voting really happened in Georgia.”
Davis told the Daily Signal that he conducted a residency analysis of the 2020 election and found “thousands of residency violations.”
“About a minute later, I suddenly found myself staring at what I knew to be evidence of systemic irregularities in that election—data suggesting we’d had tens of thousands of residency violations as well as felony violations of other state and federal election laws,” he said.
Rebecca Buis is the Georgia Correspondent for the Daily Signal.
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