About
Burt Jones is a Georgia state senator and candidate for lieutenant governor who helped to fraudulently appoint the slate of Georgia “fake electors” who attempted to cast electoral votes for Trump.
The Big Lie
- On Dec. 8, 2020, Jones and 15 other Georgia lawmakers signed on to Texas v. Pennsylvania, a Supreme Court lawsuit seeking to challenge election results in Georgia and other swing states.
- On. Dec. 14, 2020, Jones was at the center of efforts to fraudulently appoint fake electors in Georgia. The Trump campaign’s director for Georgia, Robert Sinners, directed fake electors to tell the media and others questioning their presence at the state capitol that day to say that they had a meeting with either Jones or Beach. Jones and others were directed by the Trump campaign to keep their plans secret, likely because the fake electors had no lawful authority to cast electoral votes for Trump.
- On Jan. 5, 2021, Jones was one of more than 80 state legislators to sign a letter to Vice President Mike Pence demanding a halt to his certification of electoral votes.
- On the week of June 10, 2021, Jones and Beach traveled to Maricopa County, Ariz. and toured the facility where the fraudulent Arizona Election Audit was taking place. (That same week, Jones was presented with a “Warrior” award at Georgia’ Republican Party convention.)
Post-2020 Election Subversion
- In early 2021, Jones co-sponsored two bills dealing with voting machines in Georgia, including one aimed at converting the state’s voting systems to all paper ballots, a popular policy among election deniers and adherents to conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems. Jones has said the state’s Dominion voting machines need to be replaced, and that continuing to pay for the machines is akin to doubling down “on a bad investment.”
- On Aug. 10, 2021, Jones announced his candidacy to become Georgia’s Lt. Governor, largely on an election denier platform. He won, and now faces Democrat Charlie Bailey.
- In June 2022, Jones was spared from being investigated for his role in the fake elector scheme by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis because Willis had donated to Bailey. Jones will likely be investigated by another prosecutor for his role in the scheme.