Meet the brave and bold election integrity advocate.
Independent Women’s Forum is proud to announce that Janelle King, a Georgia media personality, and a Republican member of the state Election Board, is the latest entry in our popular series of Champion Women profiles.
Janelle made headlines recently when she advocated a reform that has the Left fuming. Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock called it an “effort to turn the democracy on its head.” It is a requirement to hand-count ballots at the precinct if there are discrepancies.
“I think what this does,” Janelle tells IWF, “is create a ground-up approach. It’s much easier to find issues or mistakes in human error when you start on the precinct level than it is to find those same errors on the state level. What most of the organizations and individuals who are opposing us want is for our county board members to certify the results ministerially, even if there are mistakes, and then to handle those issues on the state level. Well, I think that causes a lot of confusion. We feel like it creates an unnecessary layer of difficulty because now you’re asking the state to go find the errors.
“That means they must comb through all 159 counties and then there’s one county that has 159 precincts itself! This will occur after the election has happened, after results have already been determined, and now you want to go back and fix it? The rules that we’re supporting are rules that will help us to address any type of breaks in the chain in this process early so that we can address it in real-time, and then people can feel more secure about the outcome of the election results.”
Aside from being able to be calm in a storm, Janelle is a media personality, with a popular podcast, The Janelle King Show, which features lively discussions of the issues of the day. “I genuinely believe politics found me,” Janelle says. Politics started finding Janelle when she innocently tagged along to a political meeting with a coworker, who happened to be a Republican.
She is married to entrepreneur Kelvin King, an Air Force Academy grad, who opposed Hershel Walker in the Republican primary.
You'll enjoy meeting the brave and bold Janelle! We’re lucky to have her as an election integrity advocate who can withstand controversy.
