Jason Frazier’s Shift from Voter-Challenge Activist to State Election Board Investigator

Jason Frazier, a self-described “urban farmer” and former project manager, spent the prior 18 months filing the bulk of the roughly 15,000 voter-registration challenges reported by Fulton County. After an appeals court blocked his 2025 nomination to the Fulton County Board of Elections, the state board hired him within weeks, giving him authority to investigate voter rolls across all 159 Georgia counties. His new position pays $70 an hour, and his offer letter arrived the same day applications were due May 11.

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A 2021 law passed by Republican legislators expanded the ability of private citizens to contest registrations and removed Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger as chair of the Georgia State Election Board, shifting control to election-denier allies. Using the online platform ELLY—developed with former Trump adviser John Richards—Frazier compared state voter data to external sources, often flagging duplicates that election officials had already addressed through routine monthly roll scrubs. One example involved Dr. Paul Yurfest, who was accused of double voting; the state confirmed his duplicate registration had been cancelled in 2023. The Heritage Foundation has identified only a single confirmed double vote in Georgia over the past decade, and that case occurred outside Fulton County.

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MAGA-aligned board member Janelle King questioned Fulton’s elections administrator about the volume of duplicate registrations Frazier reported, receiving the reply that Frazier had not shared his data.

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Experts argue that Frazier’s access to state resources enables him to “weaponize” routine roll-maintenance issues, potentially justifying state takeovers of local boards. The limited evidence of actual double voting—one case in ten years—contrasts sharply with the thousands of challenges he filed. Critics also note that his prior work on ELLY was unpaid, raising concerns about the commercialization of voter-verification tools.

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• “We use Jason’s algorithms to help develop some of these workspaces, and Jason is the one who has done the most work with this data,” — John Richards, former trump adviser

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• “That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.” — Dr. Paul Yurfest

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