The Georgia State Election Board voted on Aug. 18 to appoint a bipartisan panel to probe the management of elections in Fulton County, an inquiry that could lead to the replacement of the county’s election board by a board-appointed interim superintendent. The inquiry is the first of its kind under the election law Georgia Republicans passed in the aftermath of the 2020 elections. The law authorized the state’s election board to audit the management of elections in any county a the request of the local state lawmakers. The board appointed Stephen Day, a Democratic appointee on the Gwinnett County election board; Ricky Kittle, a Republican appointee on the Catoosa County election board; and Ryan Germany, general counsel for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, to the panel. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, a former secretary of state, applauded the action. “Fulton County has a long history of mismanagement, incompetence, …