Julie Adams Was Appointed To The Fulton County Board Of Registration & Elections In February 2024. “The Fulton County Board of Registration & Elections once again has its full five members, apparently ending a months-long fight over seating a second Republican nominee. Julie Adams took the oath, and her seat, at Thursday’s regular board meeting.” [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2/8/24]
Julie Adams Was Selected By The Fulton Republican Party To Serve On The County Board Of Elections In Early 2024. “But by early 2024, she was being sworn in to serve on her local election board. She had been selected by the local Republican Party as one of the two Republicans to serve on the bipartisan, five-member board.” [CNN, 7/30/24]
After Joining The Board, Julie Adams Sued The Rest Of The Board Claiming She Should Not Be Forced To Certify An Election “Without Access To All Elements Of The Election Materials.” “In one of her first acts, she sued the rest of the board and the elections director, claiming she should not be forced to certify election results ‘without access to all elements of the election materials.’” [CNN, 7/30/24]
Julie Adams Asked For Additional Information Before Certification Of The 2024 Primary, She Said, “I Had The Impression That We Were Going To Do This, That It Was Going To Be All Paper Documents.” “In May, the Fulton County elections board convened to certify the results of the primary election earlier that month. Laid out across a table were baskets of envelopes with election information, along with several computers that contained specifics ranging from the election night summary report to the memory card chain of custody report. The piles of documents and row of computers contained some of the same information Adams had been requesting. ‘I had the impression that we were going to do this, that it was going to be all paper documents," Adams told the election director.” [CNN, 7/30/24]
Julie Adams Commended “A Step Toward Transparency” But Said It Was “Window Dressing” Before Abstaining From Voting For Certification. “After pointing out that she wanted access to these materials before the day's meeting, Adams pored over the available information for more than six hours. As the meeting wrapped, she commended the board for taking ‘a step toward some transparency.’ Then she slammed the panel as ‘window dressing.’ In the end, Adams abstained from certifying the results.” [CNN, 7/30/24]
Julie Adams’ Explained Her Abstention From Certifying The 2024 Primary Election By Saying She Couldn’t Accept Results Given Prior Election Administration Issues. “The election board in Georgia's largest county voted on Tuesday to certify its May 21 election results, but not before one of the board's Republican-appointed members abstained. The abstention by Fulton County election board member Julie Adams aligns with her lawsuit seeking to more closely control election operations and to win a legal ruling finding county election boards can refuse to certify election results. Reading a prepared statement, Adams argued she couldn’t accept the results given prior election administration problems in the county, and argued that the board has illegally given its powers to employees.” [Associated Press, 5/29/24]
In 2022, Julie Adams Spoke At A Right-Wing Training For Poll Workers And Watchers And Made Unsubstantiated Claims About Ballot Drop Boxes In Fulton County.“The following year, Adams took to the podium at a right-wing training for poll workers and poll watchers and unfurled a baseless claim about how ballots returned to drop boxes are handled in Fulton County.” [CNN, 7/30/24]
Julie Adams: “At The Beginning Of Early Voting, These People That Looked Less Than Clean Cut Kept The Ballots For Two To Three Days. So, I’m Picturing These Guys, They’re Sitting In Their Apartments, They Have Their Buddies Over, They’re Drinking Beer, Might Be Smoking Pot And They’ve Got The Ballots There From Fulton County.” “‘At the beginning of early voting, these people that looked less than clean cut kept the ballots for two to three days,’ Adams claimed. ‘So, I'm picturing these guys, they're sitting in their apartments, they have their buddies over, they're drinking beer, might be smoking pot and they've got the ballots there from Fulton County.’” [CNN, 7/30/24]
Julie Adams Said, “I Could Never Be A Local Task Force Leader Because You’re Supposed To Get Along With Your Board Of Elections. They Don’t Like Me.” “As she encouraged other conservatives to get more involved in the election process, she pointed to her less-than-congenial relationship with local officials. ‘I could never be a local task force leader because you're supposed to get along with your board of elections,’ Adams said. ‘They don't like me.’” [CNN, 7/30/24]
Julie Adams Spread Conspiracy Theories About Election Workers And Claimed Ballot Couriers Were Drinking And Doing Drugs While Collecting Ballots Before She Became A Member Of The Fulton County Board Of Elections. “Georgia conservative Julie Adams spread conspiracies about election workers, concocted a baseless story about ballot couriers drinking beer and doing drugs while hoarding ballots, and boasted of her contentious relationship with local election officials. Then, in February, Adams was sworn in as a member of the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections in Georgia.” [CNN, 7/30/24]
In 2021, Julie Adams Claimed Election Workers Fabricated Tally Sheets During The 2020 Post-Election Audit; She Asked The Fulton County Commissioners, “The Question That You Now Must Answer Is Who Falsified Them?” “In 2021, Adams popped up at a Fulton County Commissioners meeting to raise unfounded claims about the 2020 election, namely that election workers fabricated tally sheets at a post-election audit and lamenting that specific names were redacted. ‘The question that you now must answer is who falsified them?’ Adams told the board.” [CNN, 7/30/24]
Julie Adams Was The Election Integrity Network’s Regional Coordinator For Southeastern States“Adams is the regional coordinator for southeastern states in the Election Integrity Network (EIN), a national group that has recruited election deniers to target local election offices.” [The Guardian, 6/4/24]
Julie Adams Helped Start The Georgia Election Integrity Coalition In 2022. “She helped start the Georgia Election Integrity Coalition after attending an EIN summit on election integrity in 2022, according to a publicly-posted biography.” [The Guardian, 6/4/24]