North Fulton Today

Two poll workers who previously raised concerns over voting irregularities were informed this week that their contracts would not be renewed.

The Fulton County poll workers, Bridget Thorne and Susan Voyles alleged they personally witnessed irregularities regarding the election and spoke to several news outlets, as well as state legislators, about their experiences. 

Dwight Brower, an election consultant for the county’s Department of Registration and Elections, has now informed Thorne and Voyles that the state’s law allows officials to appoint poll managers and those managers must be reappointed every election event.

“There are many factors (management skills, performance, actions, behavior, etc.) considered prior to making reappointments for each primary or election. Unfortunately, a decision has been made to not reappoint you in a poll management or other poll positions in Fulton County,” Brower wrote in the letter, according to the news media.

However, Voyles told NTD that she felt her not getting her contract renewed was a direct consequence of telling the truth.

Voyles said the truth wasn’t received well.

"In that oath, we say that I will, to the best of my abilities, make sure there is no fraud, deceit—it kind of goes on down like this,” Voyles said. “So I saw what I was doing was an extension of my job as a poll manager. In other words, I had seen fraud, I had seen deceit, I had seen the things that in our poll reading we were warned to stay away from and to report if we see them. I did, and in this case, at this point, the truth was not received well.”

Garland Favorito, the co-founder of Voters Organized for Trusted Election Results in Georgia, told NTD that it was concerning that poll workers were being terminated for speaking out.

“It’s a tremendous concern, not just for me, but for all the voters in the state of Georgia who are informed about this situation,” Favorito told the news media. “Because basically, these whistleblowers, who are trying to correct the fraud in Fulton County, have now been terminated.”

Voyles said in an affidavit that she found a batch of “pristine” ballots marked the same that the overwhelming majority of which were marked for President-elect Joe Biden.