www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com The Gwinnett County Board of Voters Registrations and Elections narrowly rejected a bid to challenge the registrations of 15,179 Gwinnett voters on Monday.

The elections board voted 3-2 to reject the challenge presented by Georgia Republican Party state officer, and Gwinnett resident, BJ Van Gundy during a virtual meeting. The challenge would have affected voters who try to vote in the Jan. 5 runoff election.

The board also voted 3-2 to dismiss a second challenge presented by David Clark after it appeared Clark was not responding to calls for him to present his challenge during the meeting, which was held via WebEx.


The two Republican Party representatives on the board, Alice O'Lenick and Ben Satterfield, voted against both rejecting Van Gundy's challenge and dismissing Clark's challenge.

Van Gundy said the voters whose registrations he was challenging appeared to have moved out of the county at least temporarily, with at least some of them filing forwarding address cards with the post office.

He suggested Gwinnett teens who were attending college out of state could be asked to provide their college identification cards, in addition to their state-issued identification cards, to poll workers to verify they are students.