Lawmakers pitch statewide grand jury to investigate election violations [Georgia]

TheCenterSquare ^ | 2/27/26 | Kim Jarrett

[CFW]

Three Georgia senators are proposing a constitutional amendment that would allow a statewide grand jury to investigate election violations.

Senate Resolution 875 says the grand juries could investigate election violations from anywhere in the state. The chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia would appoint a Superior Court judge to oversee the grand jury. The attorney general would appoint a legal adviser, according to the bill.

Georgia voters would decide in November if the resolution becomes part of the state constitution.

"We have had this, I guess just a series of issues involving voting, different accusations, different prosecutions of different folks, even the apparently the federal government is involved at this point in some of these," said Sen. Bill Cowsert, R-Athens, during a Friday meeting of the Senate Special Committee on Investigations and a sponsor of the resolution. "It seems to me that an issue like that that has statewide impact might be best handled by the Attorney General's Office, who's elected by the entire state, rather than leaving that with various district attorneys."

Cowsert, chairman of the committee, is running for attorney general.

[CFW]

I don't know if I like this idea. To have just one specific group in charge of deciding whether an election fraud accusation goes before a jury puts all the power to investigate fraud in Atlanta. Any fraud investigation could just be pushed to the side and never brought before the grand jury.

[BobL]

I like the statewide idea. In Texas, back in the past, they needed some unit of government to investigate public corruption at the state level and so they had the Austin DA Office do that...which made sense at the time, since the state capital is Austin.

...but times change. Austin is now world-famous for being run by America-haters and it got so bad that we had to move that function out of Austin and make it statewide, I think.

[TStro]

I remember the vote counters in Georgia gleefully running the same ballots through the voting machines over and over.
They threw the Republican election monitors out of the counting rooms.
Austin was once a great place to visit. Not any more. Too many lobbyists. UT is a sewer of liberalism. “Dirty 6th Street” deserves it’s moniker. Used to be a good place to go.

[Fai Mao]

If I am reading it right it would draw Grand Jurors from all over the state and not just Fraudlanta.

This is an attempt to get past the fraud machine acolytes without giving them room to complain about discrimination.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I remember the vote counters in Georgia gleefully running the same ballots through the voting machines over and over.

And then Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss sued Rudy Giuliani for defamation for pointing it out, and they won.

[Fai Mao]

If I am reading it right it would draw Grand Jurors from all over the state and not just Fraudlanta.

This is an attempt to get past the fraud machine acolytes without giving them room to complain about discrimination.