Hello, I'm Doug Reardon, political reporter at W ANF in Atlanta.

Welcome to the Atlanta Press Club.

Loudermilk-Young Debate Series from the studios of Georgia Public Broadcasting, the 2026 debate series was made possible by grants to the Atlanta Press Club from the Arthur M Blank Family Foundation and the Robert Charles Loudermilk Senior Foundation.

This is the debate for the Republican candidates running for Georgia's secretary of state.

We have two journalists who will question these candidates with us today.

Maya T Bravo is the editorial director of Peach Poll, a Georgia political news platform.

And Tyree Gwin is a morning news anchor at 41 NBC in Macon.

We're going to kick things off in today's debate by asking each of the candidates to introduce themselves and tell viewers why they should be Georgia's next secretary of state.

Candidates will have 60s to introduce yourselves, and we will go in alphabetical order, starting with Tim Fleming, Mr.

Fleming.

Hello, Georgia.

I'm Tim Fleming.

I'm a husband, father, small business owner, and lifelong conservative.

I'm running for secretary of state because I believe experience matters.

I've had the experience of serving as deputy secretary of state under then Secretary of State Brian Kemp, where I was responsible for running the day to day operations of the Secretary of State's office.

I've served in the Georgia House of Representatives for the past four years, where I've worked on elections legislation and licensure reform legislation to cut red tape.

If elected your next secretary of State, I'll work hard every day to ensure that our elections are secure, fair, transparent and trusted, and also make it easier for Georgians to get in the workforce to get their professional licensing.

I look forward to earning your vote today.

Thank you.

All right.

Thank you.

Tim Fleming Vernon Jones.

Introduce yourself.

Hello, Georgia.

I'm Vernon Jones and I'm running for Secretary of State.

Why?

Because our Secretary of State's office is in dire need of reform.

And I'm a reformer.

I'm a former state legislator, executive, county executive.

I've owned a small business.

I've had the opportunity to work in elections.

I've had opportunity to to have a small business and get it off the ground, to work with various folks who created jobs for myself and others.

I also had the opportunity to work with many in the private sector.

I've had the opportunity to work with those families who are seeking professional license, who are having problems at the Secretary of State's office.

So what did I want to do?

I want to make sure that we protect our elections.

Our elections have been riddled by irregularities.

In some cases, fraud.

So we want to protect and preserve our elections.

We want to make it free, fair and transparent, and we want to make sure we remove the red tape.

When you're trying to get your professional license.

I'm Vernon Jones, and I hope I get a chance to earn your support by the end of this debate.

All right.

Thank you, gentlemen.

And of course, for the full set of debate rules, you can visit Atlanta Press Club dot org.

We're going to turn to our panel now to ask some questions to individual candidates.

They are two of my favorite journalists.

And we're going to start with Maya Prabhu, who will ask a question for Vernon Jones Maya.

Hi.

Mr.

Jones, you've aligned yourself with voters who remain skeptical of the 2020 election as Secretary of State, what evidence would you require before publicly questioning certified election results?

And do you believe Georgia's 2020 presidential election was legitimate?

Well, obviously, we've had election fraud.

Why?

Because even the media themselves says there was no widespread fraud.

Well, how wide is the wide?

And voters want to know how wide was that widespread?

We also know that there are thousands of people who are registered at different places or abandoned buildings.

They're registered at post offices.

They're registered at various places where they don't live there at all.

But we even had the the lawyers for various local election boards to come out and say, yes, we've actually registered those people who were illegal and they were illegal.

They marked on their actual registration form that they were illegal.

They were not U.S.

Citizens, but they were allowed to register to vote.

We also know that there was a precinct, at least one drop box that was on private property.

And the requirement was that it has to be on public property, either county or city.

So, yes, there's fraud.

We don't have two heads.

As many of us out there.

We know that there was election fraud in Georgia.

And my job and what I want to do is I want to clean the voter rolls.

I want to make sure that that we have a verifiable ballot, that we can make sure that our vote count is count accurately.

So we know that there's fraud.

All right.

Thank you for that.

Mr.

Jones.

And Tyreke, please ask a question of Tim Fleming.

Thank you Doug.

Mr.

Fleming Georgia already has a voter ID laws and multiple election security measures.

So can you tell us what additional safeguards do you believe are still necessary?

Yes.

Thank you for the question.

Well, obviously there's been a lot of work done since the 2020 election, uh, from Senate Bill 202 and elections Integrity Reform Act and legislation since then.

But we've got to continue to move forward to make sure that we have the most trusted elections in the in the country.

I sponsored the legislation this year.

One piece that I sponsored was actually cleaning up the DMV process.

When people go get their driver's license, because that's where we're seeing a lot of people that should not be on our voter rolls, get on the voter rolls, and we're having to go back behind and clean them up.

So we have made great strides over the past several years, but we have a lot more to do to continue to work on elections, integrity, movement.

And as your next secretary of State, I will do that every day.

All right.

And Tyreke, back to you to ask a question of Vernon Jones.

Yes Mr.

Jones you've proposed stricter absentee ballot limitations.

So can you tell us how would that impact the elderly voters, the disabled voters, military families and also rural Georgians who rely heavily on absentee voters?

Yes.

Clearly, we need to have more restrictions on absentee ballots.

We can't just mail out millions and millions of ballots.

That's going to people's homes where those folks are.

There are no longer there.

We saw what happened in the 2020 election.

We want to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat, but we also want to make sure that the restrictions come into place, where where seniors and those who are disabled and those who really need to have absentee ballots, they get opportunity to do it, but not those who are trying to beat the system.

We've seen that happen.

We've seen literally thousands and thousands of folks from outside of the state intervening in our elections here.

You've seen where, uh, even when we were voting with absentee ballots, that, again, millions of ballots were mailed to people's homes without any supervision or any knowledge.

If that actual voter lived there, we cannot do that.

Look, I'm not part of the system.

I didn't come from the Secretary of State's office.

We know there's a problem, and we want to fix that problem.

Mr.

Fleming, you'd like a quick rebuttal.

Mail and absentee ballots is where the fraud is.

I believe we need to go back.

The only way you get an absentee ballot is if you're elderly, you're disabled, or you have a military service member serving our country overseas.

Other than that, you have plenty of opportunities to go vote, whether that's your early voting or on Election Day voting in person, you should make voting a priority, and you should make voting in person a priority.

All right.

And, Maya, we'll go back to Tim Fleming for the last round of this question.

Our last question of this round.

You chaired a blue ribbon process that spent months studying Georgia's voting system, which helped lead to recommendations around moving toward hand-marked paper ballots.

But when Senate Bill 214 came forward, you voted against it.

What specifically was wrong with that bill, and what voting system would you support as secretary of state?

Absolutely.

I was honored to chair the House Blue Ribbon Committee on Elections, Reform and Procedures.

We went around the state last summer and fall meeting with local election superintendents across 159 counties, elections experts from across the country.

And you Georgia citizens wanting to get your feedback about our elections process.

We had many recommendations that came from that committee, but I've been a proponent the whole time.

If we don't come into compliance with Senate Bill 189, which is removing the QR code, we have to do it by July one.

Senate Bill 214 this session, I voted against it in committee and on the House floor because it kicked the can and delayed the date of removing the QR codes off the ballot.

And I look forward to going back in special session on June 17th to fix the problem and have the solution in place by July 1, and I'll continue to do that as your next Secretary of State as well.

All right.

Thank you, gentlemen.

We appreciate that.

And that concludes our first round.

Each candidate will now ask a question to their opponent.

You will have 30s to ask that question.

60s to respond.

And the person who asked the question will also get a chance at a 32nd rebuttal.

And so, Tim Fleming, we're going to have you ask the first question to your opponent.

Vernon Jones Vernon, you talk about your legislative career that you served in the legislature.

You served almost 30 years of your political career as a liberal DeKalb Democrat.

If you were to be elected Secretary of state, how do you see yourself being able to work with a conservative, Republican controlled legislature and a conservative Republican governor?

Actually, I've always been conservative.

I was conservative before you were born.

Democrats used to be conservative.

As a matter of fact, Sonny Perdue was a Democrat.

He's a conservative.

Um, Nathan Deal was a Democrat.

He was a conservative.

Donald Trump was a Democrat.

He was conservative.

So actually, I'm much more conservative than you.

As a matter of fact, I didn't serve 30 years.

But you're there now.

You're part of the system on your website.

You're talking about securing the votes.

You're talking about eliminating the barcodes.

Will, you've been there.

You haven't done it.

So don't the people of Georgia deserve better?

You've been there.

You're an insider.

You said you worked for the Secretary of State's office and you didn't get anything done.

And so I am a proven leader.

I take on the tough issues.

I've actually run a government I've actually had to oversee an elections.

And we got it.

We got it right.

But when you have someone that's that's in charge of Blue Ribbon committee and had two years to get it right, and you've been there yourself almost 19 years in and out of government, and you have a record of no accomplishments as it relates to voter security and election integrity.

And so I think the voters want somebody who's a reformer, who can get out there and get the job done.

I look forward to getting it done.

All right, Mr.

Fleming, you have 15.

I've been a lifelong conservative.

I've been in the trenches with our base and grassroots across the state my whole life.

I'm not a I'm not a liberal DeKalb County Democrat.

I've served in the legislature and I've stood up for Republican conservative causes, and I've done that in my whole career.

All right.

And it is now time for Mr.

Jones to ask a question of Mr.

Fleming.

I actually don't have a question, Mr.

Fleming.

I just want to look out to the voters across Georgia.

Listen, you know, there's election fraud and election regularity in Georgia.

Uh, you and I both know that Tim was a part of the system.

He worked for the Secretary of state's office.

He did nothing to secure the vote.

He did nothing to stand with those of us at Stop the Steal.

He was not there for Donald Trump.

He was not there for American first agenda.

He was not there to make sure that we restore paper ballots.

And as a matter of fact, the barcodes, they're still using the barcodes.

Why hasn't that been changed?

Put somebody in there who can get the job done.

He's a part of the system.

I've been a lifelong person of reforming and changing the system, and so I look forward to opportunity to tell you how I can continue, continue to make sure that we stop the steal.

We we remove, the barcodes and make sure that we go back to a verifiable process with our ballots.

And you still have 30s.

Mr.. Vernon, I've been part of the conservative movement my whole life.

I serve as a conservative Republican in the state House.

And I actually, unlike you, I've voted for Donald Trump six times.

I voted for him in 2016.

Presidential preference primary in 20 16-20 20-20 24.

You did not because you were voting in the Democratic primary during that time.

I've always been there for Donald Trump.

I campaigned with him for him in 2024, actually was one of the first state legislators in 2023 to endorse his campaign.

All right.

Thank you both.

Gentlemen, we're going to move on to our next round of questioning.

But by all means, we have a lot more to go here.

And you are watching the Republican runoff debate for Georgia Secretary of State.

We'll now go back to the panel, who will ask questions to the candidates of their choice until we run out of time.

And we'll start with you, Tyreke.

Yes.

So my question is for both candidates.

So the question is do you believe the biggest threat to elections today is fraud misinformation political violence or declining trust in institutions.

I'm sorry.

Who goes.

Uh, that's to you, Mr.

Jones.

Okay.

I believe the biggest threat is having those people in place like Tim, who are elected officials who down at the state legislature, and they can't do anything to address the issues with election integrity.

I want to be clear, um, for the past two years, after Senate Bill 189 passed, the legislature kicked the ball down the down the road, if you will, did not address the barcode getting out much more efficient, much more effective.

We're voting right now with the barcodes in place should not be there.

And so we should have someone in place who really wants to fix our election integrity and protect our vote and make sure that everybody, every vote is count.

And we restore public trust.

And that's the biggest to me, that's the biggest challenge, having someone down there to get the job done.

Look, I'm not a show horse.

I'm a workhorse and I believe in getting in there fixing the problem.

And people know that Vernon Jones will outwork anyone and get the job done.

And I can tell you right now, the Secretary of State's office is out of control.

The inmates are running the asylum, and you want someone that can come in and address the issues and restore public trust in our elections.

Mr.

Fleming, any response?

Yeah, absolutely.

I think the biggest threat to Georgia elections is electing a fraud like a lifetime liberal Democrat.

Uh, DeKalb Democrat Vernon Jones here.

I've been on the forefront, served in the Secretary of State's office under Secretary Kemp, served in the legislature, uh, as far as SB 189 goes, uh, we passed that two years ago, and the current secretary of state failed to do anything about it.

They laid down on the job, and that's why the legislature had to step in.

Unfortunately, we didn't get it passed due to election year politics going on under the Gold Dome.

And that's why we're going to come back for a special session, and we're going to get it right before July 1.

All right, let's go back to my, uh, ask a question of your candidate of choice.

Um, this question is for Mr.

Fleming.

You've raised concerns about Georgia's voting system while also running to become the person responsible for administering it.

How would you reassure voters that you can critique the system without undermining confidence in elections?

You will later oversee?

Absolutely.

I think it's important to know the next secretary of state will be charged with procuring a new statewide voting system.

Moving forward, I will, if I'm elected secretary of state.

With my experience, I'll work with the state legislature.

I'll work with the governor.

I'll work with 159 superintendents, county election superintendents across the state, and also get feedback from Georgians on what they want to see.

Um, it's my belief where we're heading in the state is going to hand mark paper ballots.

I'm a proponent of that.

Over 70% of the United States votes on Hand-marked paper ballots.

Look no further south than Florida.

They're the gold standard.

So I will work with our General Assembly to do that.

I also believe we need a public trust restoration campaign around our statewide voting system.

And we're going to get a new vendor for that.

All right.

Back to you.

Yes.

This question is for you, Mr.

Jones.

And middle Georgia communities like Macon and Warner Robins, Dublin and surrounding cities and counties, voters often feel ignored by statewide politicians.

Once campaigns in.

So can you tell us how would your office remain visible and accountable to communities outside metro Atlanta?

Well, first of all, there are two Georgia's.

There's Metro Atlanta, the rest of Georgia.

Clearly, if I'm Secretary of State, I would do more to make sure that all of Georgia's involved in the process and making sure all Georgians feel like someone is working for them.

They shouldn't have to drive to Atlanta to get services from the Secretary of State's office.

As a matter of fact, the phone should be answered.

You can't get anyone to answer the phone.

And that's what troubles me, because Tim was a part of the Secretary of State's office for years and did nothing.

He was in the General Assembly, and he was in charge of a task force, said he was listening to what voters had to say and did nothing.

It's time to put someone in there who really answered the call through throughout Georgia.

To all of Georgia to make sure everyone is involved, that they're getting the top quality of customer service that they need and they deserve.

And that's why I am running for Secretary of state, because I am determined to make sure all Georgians have a seat at the table, and we bring in, uh, more transparency and transparency and visibility.

Right now, I can see, right, as you said, most Georgians outside of Metro Atlanta feels left out, but that's going to change if I'm elected secretary of state.

All right, Mr.

Fleming, you'd like a rebuttal.

It goes back to experience matters.

I've actually served in the Secretary of State's office as deputy secretary of State and have fought for Middle Georgia and South Georgia.

In 2012, when the legislature wanted to close the Tifton Secretary of State's office, I worked with the legislature to keep that funding in place so that rural Georgia had voices, and we were in the Secretary of State's office.

We had a high focus on customer service.

Under my time in that administration, where the customer service has lacked in the past eight years under the current secretary's administration and as a state legislature, it's the number one complaint I get.

People cannot get email on the phone, return calls or emails, and that will change under Fleming administration.

All right.

Thank you both.

Maya, back to you.

My question is for both candidates.

And we can start with Mr.

Fleming.

If a president campaign or federal official pressured you to alter, delay or reject certified Georgia election results, what would you do?

I'm always going to follow the law.

You like it?

If you're elected constitutional officer in the state of Georgia, it is your job to uphold the Constitution and to follow the laws and procedures of the state of Georgia.

And that's what I would do as Secretary of State.

Mr.

Jones.

As Secretary of state, being the chief administrator, obviously, you have to make sure that no one violates the law.

But unlike my opponent, who ran who couldn't run from President Trump when he was standing up about election fraud, he was never at any of the rallies.

He never spoke on behalf of those who felt like the election was taken from them.

And look at what had happened.

Public trust has been completely eroded, and to be a part of the system, and then you want to fix the system.

I don't want to be a partisan.

I haven't been part of the system.

We just want to fix it.

It's broken.

We do have election irregularities and we do want to make sure we follow the law.

The president, just like anybody else, have a right to protest if there's a concern with the election.

But we saw that we had numerous irregularities in our election, and we're still unveiling stuff right now that happened in this election.

And so my opponent here, he is in the House of Representatives talking about leadership, who chair the committee and got nothing done.

We can no longer have do nothing legislature.

We want someone that can get in there and fix the problem.

Well, Vernon, I just didn't come in on the scene in 2020 like you did.

I was on the scene way before that, fighting for secure elections and elections integrity.

During that time, you were serving as a liberal DeKalb Democrat, standing up for the liberal left policies.

And when you found an opportunity in 2020, that's when you came on the scene to fight for it.

So I was fighting for it long before you were okay.

I like to respond, please, Tim, I think you and I and Georgia know you were never around during election integrity.

Matter of fact, you were never around President Trump.

You really never met President Trump.

You never attended any of the rallies with President Trump.

You were not there, Tim.

And as I was a state legislator, I came out for President Trump in 2016.

Before you did, I voted three times for President Trump.

As a matter of fact, I was a big supporter of President George W Bush.

I didn't just become conservative like you did.

You did it when it's convenient.

I've always been a consistent conservative.

As a matter of fact, the rhinos are part of the problem.

Now you are really a rhino.

You are not a conservative.

Vernon.

I voted for President Trump six times.

The first few times I voted for President Trump, you were voting for the Liberal Democrat.

I wasn't I was at rallies for President Trump.

As I said, I was one of the first state legislators to endorse President Trump in 2023.

And I actually spoke at a rally for JD Vance the day before the election.

Gentlemen, let's move on.

But I do he.

Did say let's.

Move on.

President Trump started.

Running.

Mr.

Jones.

This actually isn't a rebuttal round.

Gentlemen.

Let's let's move on now, if we could.

But let me give you a chance to to expound a little bit more on this, because we mentioned President Trump a couple of times in the days after the election raid at the Fulton County elections headquarters this year, President Trump floated the idea of perhaps federalizing elections and getting the federal government involved in these elections that are typically, as you know, run by the state and the counties.

And so if you are elected as Georgia's secretary of state, do you agree with him that there needs to be federal involvement in Georgia's elections?

What level of federal involvement would you be comfortable with?

And, Mr.

Fleming, we'll start with you.

Yes, I support the President's Safe America Act that he has proposed to to bring some some national, uh, you know, standards around elections, a lot of what the president's proposed Georgia's already doing.

I've been leading on elections integrity issues for many years.

As I said, long before Vernon came, came on the scene.

And Mr.

Jones.

Yes, obviously, Tim, you were never there.

You weren't there in 2016.

You were not there in 2020.

I was you were not in Washington, D.C.

I was there in 2016.

I was also there in 2020.

I was also in Washington, D.C.

And the first Stop the Steal rally at the state Capitol.

You were nowhere there.

As a matter of fact, no legislators were there.

I believe there are.

There's a role for the federal government as it relates to investigations, like what's going on right now with all those ballots, with Fulton County, but also understand and want to make clear that Tim never supported President Trump until he was late.

Where it was.

It was popular not when it wasn't popular.

And I was always there.

As a matter of fact, Tim, you said you started supporting him in 2023, seven years before that, I was supporting President Trump.

I was I was concerned long before you were, Tim.

Okay.

Well, I was supporting him in 2016.

I voted for him in the 2020-16 presidential preference primary.

When you were voting in the Democratic presidential.

Because I was a Democrat, then you vote in the Democratic primary.

Because you're a. I'm not like one of those.

You're a liberal DeKalb Democrat.

And that's what.

You are.

And I just didn't come on the scene in 2020 when I saw opportunity.

All right, gentlemen, we're going to move on and we're going to go back to our panel now.

And Tyreke, I'm going to have you ask a question to a candidate of your choice.

Yeah yeah.

Just want to talk about this.

Since we are talking about Donald Trump.

I do want to know this.

I know that he has endorsed, uh Burt Jones for governor.

How come do you think he hasn't endorsed any of you guys for this office?

That's the president's prerogative, who he wants to endorse.

What?

Who I'm looking to endorse me are the people of state of Georgia, the people of state of Georgia has a vote.

President Trump does not have a vote here.

But I think President Trump knows that I'm an American first candidate, that I was there long before Tim.

Tim came on late.

He knows that I'm consistent.

He knows I'm conservative.

He knows that I have worked hard on election integrity, worked with all those out there who who feel as though their votes were not counted, feel as though there was fraud.

And so and I haven't been in the legislature in the last few years when all this went awry.

Tim has.

And he has not fixed it.

How can you say that?

You want to fix it?

You've been there in the legislature.

You've been in the governor's office.

You've been in the Secretary of State's office, and you have all these problems.

What were you doing?

You could not have been serving the people of Georgia.

As a matter of fact.

Why don't we already have already eliminated the QR codes?

It's been two years, and they haven't gotten it right yet.

And here we are.

Have to wait till a special session.

What are you going to do in a special session?

Are you going to address the issue?

Then you want someone who's not a show horse again, someone who who can actually get in there and get the job done.

All right, Mr.

Fleming.

Well, clearly it's up to President Trump and who he wants to endorse and how he wants to do that.

I'd love to have his endorsement, but I need the endorsement of support from Georgians.

I'm honored to have the endorsement and support for almost 100 of my House and Senate colleagues, and over hundreds of local elected officials from sheriffs, tax commissioners, county commissioners all across the state, and lots of grassroots activists.

That's who I'm worried about, are the people of Georgia.

And if elected, your next secretary of state, I'll fight hard every day for the people of Georgia to make sure we have fair, secure and trusted elections and also make it easier for people to get in the workforce faster.

All right, gentlemen, we're running low on time, so we're going to keep it moving here.

Maya, back to you.

Um, this question is for Mr.

Jones.

What responsibility do candidates for Secretary of state have to avoid undermining public trust in the elections?

They may later administer ?

Well, first of all, public trust is important.

And if people feel as though that they can vote in Georgia and their vote is going to be counted and counted accurately, that's important.

What we've seen happen that's been eroded.

You've seen the irregularities.

You've seen multiple people registered address that.

They don't live there.

You're seeing where nobody can feel confident that their ballot, that the people they voted for, those are the folks that are going to be selected in that process.

There's no verifiable paper ballot method.

Um, there are a lot of irregularities.

And when I talked to earlier and Tim is my friend, let me just be clear, we have a good relationship, but I just disagree all the time that he had in the legislature to fix these problems.

He didn't fix these problems.

And so do you want to elect someone who's, who's been there, who has not done anything?

Or you want to elect a reformer that can come in and address the true issues that are happening in that office.

And look, people can't get their license.

Their phone calls won't be returned.

They're not being returned, emails not being returned.

It's just a mess in that Secretary of State's office and the secretary of State, as they're now.

Um, that's where the biggest problem is.

Replacing the Secretary of state and get this place cleaned up.

Mr.

Fleming, you do have 30s.

I'll just say it goes back to experience matters.

When I served in the Secretary of State's office under the then Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, we had a very good office.

We had a customer service focused office focused on Georgians.

And if I'm elected secretary of state, that's what you'll get.

I'll get in that office day one and clean it up.

I don't need on the job training.

I can get in there day one and get to work to cleaning up the mess that the Secretary of State's office is currently in.

All right.

That is all the time that we have for questions.

If you can believe it, the candidates will now have 60s for a closing statement.

And Vernon Jones, we're going to start with you.

Yes.

First of all, I want to thank the voters out in the state of Georgia, state of Georgia.

You respond to our message.

We've gone all over this state with our message of election integrity, cleaning the voter rolls, making sure that we return to paper ballots and at the same time making sure we streamline the process so you can get and have an opportunity to do business with the state of Georgia, get your professional license.

The governor's not coming between you and your paycheck.

But let me tell you, I am a proven conservative and I have stood solid, solid with conservative values in the state of Georgia.

And you want someone that will fight for you.

I am not an insider.

That has been the problem.

We've had people on the inside and they haven't gotten the job done.

You want someone that would come in, hit the ground running.

Day one I have experienced at executive level, I have experienced as a as a state legislator, small business person, and working in the private sector.

I believe you want someone that will fight for you and that's what you don't have right now.

Someone who's fighting for the person at home, not the bureaucrats, and not profiting off the state of Georgia.

So I look forward to having your support and earning your vote as we go throughout this process.

Thank you so much.

60s Mr.

Fleming.

Thank you.

First, I'd like to thank the Atlanta Press Club for hosting this debate today.

Thank you for having this.

I think you've seen today experience matters.

I have the experience of serving as deputy Secretary of state under the then Secretary of state, Brian Kemp.

I've served in the legislature where I've led on elections, integrity legislation, licensure reform, legislation to cut red tape and get bureaucracy out of the way.

If elected your next secretary of State, I'll fight hard every day to ensure that our elections are fair, secure and trusted, and also work hard for the average Georgian who's in the workforce to make sure you can get your licensing to get in place so Georgia can remain the number one state to do business.

I'm Tim Fleming, I'm a husband, a father, a lifelong conservative, and I'm humbly asking for your vote.

On June 16th in the Republican runoff for Secretary of State.

Thank you.

And God bless.

All right.

Thank you both.

We appreciate that.

And of course, early voting starts Monday, June 8 and runs through Friday, June 12.

Election day is, of course, Tuesday, June 16th.

We thank all of the candidates and of course, our panel, Maya and Tyreke for asking those wonderful questions.

And we'd also like to thank the Atlanta Press Club and Georgia Public Broadcasting for arranging today's debate.

I'm Doug Reardon.

Thanks for joining us here at the Atlanta Press Club.

Loudermilk-Young Debate Series.