ATLANTA — In a rural South Georgia county where election officials let outsiders copy confidential voting data, legislators haven't called for the kind of state takeover or performance review that they supported in the state's voting law.
Coffee County, a consistently Republican area, has escaped that level of scrutiny, unlike its urban neighbor 200 miles to the north, Fulton County. The largest source of Democratic votes in the state, Fulton has been going through a state evaluation for over a year.
The difference is that the takeover process in Fulton was initiated by a group of Republican state legislators who wanted to investigate their own county, while Coffee is represented entirely by Republican lawmakers who are less willing to invite a state review that could lead to replacing its elections board.
