State Election Board passes rule seeking access to secretary of state's election night 'bunker'
Georgia’s State Election Board has passed a rule aimed at granting board members access to the secretary of state’s election night hub, defying a warning from the attorney general’s office that such a rule would exceed the board’s authority.
The measure passed in a 3-2 vote Wednesday, with three Republican-aligned members voting to adopt the rule and the sole Democratic appointee and the chairman opposing it. The board also passed a separate rule aimed at defining what counts as a vote and how those votes should be tallied.
The proposed rule was introduced by board member Salleigh Grubbs, who also serves as the first vice chair of the Georgia Republican Party. It coincides with an ongoing legal effort to give parties, board members and poll watchers access to the state’s emergency operations center, where the secretary of state’s election night reporting activities are conducted.
No ballot counting takes place on site and the hub is not a polling place, early voting location or tabulation center, which the attorney general’s office has said exempts the area from state laws requiring poll watchers to have access to the areas where votes are being counted.
https://georgiarecorder.com/2026/07/08/state-election-board-passes-rule-seeking-access-to-secretary-of-states-election-night-bunker/