Ambrose King Wins His Case
(Without A Hearing)
Some of you have been following the Ambrose King case, but for those of you unfamiliar with it, here is a quick recap:
Ambrose King, Jr. who is a cousin to MLK, lost his campaign for school board in the 2022 democrat primary in Tift County by only 2 votes. Because he saw irregularities in the election, he contacted Election Attorney Jake Evans for help, and Jake brought me in as his expert witness. This is the fourth case we’ve been in together, not counting my defense when I was a defendant in the Fair Fight v. True the Vote case, which we won.
Election cases are normally tough cases to win, but I am very pleased to report that for the first time, we have managed to win one without even the need for a hearing!
The evidence was so strong the county conceded, which I believe they should absolutely be commended for. Making a mistake is easy. But owning it, and then stepping up to correct the mistake takes genuine integrity.
One of the first issues we always check for in these cases are residency and districting problems because they are so common, and there were quite a few in this case. But what ultimately won us the case was the discovery of an entire apartment complex, with 133 voters in it, and all of those voters had been placed in School Board District 6 instead of District 1 on the voter rolls.
That error effectively disenfranchised those voters from casting ballots in the district they actually live in, and it wasn’t just the school board district either - the lines in Tift County for school board and county commission are the same.
Below is a link to a map if you’d like to see it. The red line is the polygon for school board district 1 from the Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment Office, and the yellow line is the polygon from the county’s property tax records for the apartment complex.
There are two big takeaways from this: First, we Republicans just won a case for a Democrat, because election integrity is NOT a partisan issue - we all deserve fair elections no matter what party we support. Second, although people can talk all kinds of nonsense about election integrity issues, it is a lot harder to dispute legitimate issues in a courtroom.
