Trump’s Push for Paper Ballots Shakes Up Georgia?

The RNC Sum­mer Meet­ing in Atlanta (August 19–22, 2025) is heat­ing up with JD Vance’s Geor­gia vis­it and Joe Gruters run­ning unop­posed for RNC chair with Trump’s endorse­ment. Gruters faces pres­sure from 200+ GAGOP del­e­gate let­ters alleg­ing a rigged con­ven­tion. Trump’s recent post advo­cat­ing for water­marked paper bal­lots and elim­i­nat­ing mail-in bal­lots and vot­ing machines fuels Georgia’s elec­tion integri­ty debate, tied to the 2020 elec­tion and Fani Willis’ con­tro­ver­sies. Mean­while, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, Trump-endorsed for gov­er­nor, cam­paigns on end­ing state income tax, but ques­tions linger about replac­ing Georgia’s $20B rev­enue and ris­ing local fees.

• The RNC is hav­ing their sum­mer meet­ing in Atlanta this week. JD Vance will come to Geor­gia, will he meet with a cou­ple of can­di­dates or will he just come to the RNC and head out of town. The meet­ings kick off tomor­row and the gen­er­al ses­sion begins Fri­day. Joe Gruters is run­ning unop­posed for RNC chair and he has got­ten the endorse­ment from Pres­i­dent Trump. What Joe Gruters will also have by the end of the week are the 200+ let­ters from del­e­gates at the GAGOP about the rigged con­ven­tion. 
• We are in GA where Fani Willis is still drink­ing her Grey Goose, Trump has his mugshot, where the per­fect phone call between Trump and Raf­fensperg­er where Trump is look­ing for the 11K votes that they claim that Trump lost in GA. There have been groups in Geor­gia that have been look­ing at data and work­ing towards the truth in the 2020 elec­tion. This is in part why they don’t want Jason Fraiz­er on the Board of Elec­tions. The recent post by Don­ald Trump is what many have been fight­ing for in Geor­gia. Trump post­ing “I am going to lead a move­ment to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, High­ly “Inac­cu­rate,” Very Expen­sive, and Seri­ous­ly Con­tro­ver­sial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accu­rate and sophis­ti­cat­ed Water­mark Paper, which is faster, and leaves NO DOUBT, at the end of the evening, as to who WON, and who LOST, the Elec­tion.” Now this will play a big part in the gov­er­nors race. Burt Jones has been endorsed by Don­ald Trump and right now his num­ber one cam­paign issue is end­ing state income tax. But we have to ask every can­di­date for gov­er­nor, lt gov­er­nor, sec­re­tary of state and attor­ney gen­er­al if they sup­port Trump in get­ting rid of mail in bal­lots and elim­i­nat­ing the machines to go to water­marked paper bal­lots. 
• If the state of Geor­gia brings in $20B a year, do you real­ly think they are going to end the state income tax and they will not bring in the $20B. They want to let you think you will not have to pay the mon­ey. Law­mak­ers have not done any­thing to lead us to believe that the peo­ple will not have to pay more, they will just have fees and oth­er tax­es to pay. Will they off­set the loss by tax­ing the indus­tries that have received the tax abate­ments? What will hap­pen to those indus­tries? What is the plan to replace the rev­enue with? 
• Don’t for­get Burt Jones has worn the MAGA hat for the past 4 years and in the years that he has been lt gov­er­nor, we have only one attempt at the end of the last ses­sion to go to paper bal­lots. We still have a sec­re­tary of state’s office over our board of elec­tions, we are still in the ERIC sys­tem and a lot still hap­pen­ing. 
• As the state is telling you that they are going to elim­i­nate tax­es, there are fees, tax­es that are going through the roof. Until law­mak­ers that are run­ning for office say where they are focused. City of Jones­boro look­ing at a 91% increase.