| Candidate | Who They Are | The Threat |
|---|---|---|
| Gabriel Sterling HIGH |
Raffensperger's former COO. The establishment pick. Defended 2020 results publicly, famously — cable TV face of the office. | His attack line writes itself: "I've worked in this office. I know exactly how it runs." Jones has no counter to operational depth — yet. |
| Kelvin King MEDIUM |
Another Trump-aligned candidate. Same MAGA lane as Jones. | Vote splitter. Without Trump's explicit endorsement for this race, Jones and King divide the insurgent lane and Sterling wins. |
| Tim Fleming State Rep |
Low. Doesn't have the profile to break through. | |
| Ted Metz | Unknown. Noise. | |
| Domain | Scale | AI Opportunity |
|---|---|---|
| Voter registration DB | ~7M voters | Continuous anomaly detection, roll integrity ML |
| Business registrations | ~900K entities | AI triage engine, auto-approval routing |
| Professional licensing | 40+ professions | Extend current modernization — all professions, not just nursing |
| Campaign finance disclosure | All GA candidates | Pattern analysis, automated contribution flagging |
| Securities regulation | Statewide | Fraud detection ML |
| Public records / archives | State archive | NLP search, automated FOIA response |
| Election results | Statewide | Real-time transparency dashboard + anomaly flagging |
| What He Says | What He Actually Means | The AI Solution |
|---|---|---|
| "Election integrity" | Stop illegal votes, detect fraud, clean rolls | Continuous voter roll anomaly detection — ML model running 24/7: address changes, duplicate detection, deceased voter cross-referencing, out-of-state migration matching. Replaces Raffensperger's annual manual purge. |
| "Paper ballots" | Auditable, verifiable votes — paper as source of truth | Paper-as-source-of-truth audit pipeline — scan/ingest paper ballots into auditable digital chain; ML-based tabulation vs. paper count anomaly flagging. |
| "Limit mail-in fraud" | Pattern-detect abuse in application data | Mail-in application ML model — cluster analysis on application bursts by address, timing anomalies, identity verification scoring, cross-reference with USPS/SAVE data. |
| "Strong voter ID" | Know who's voting — identity verified at registration, not just at polls | Real-time voter eligibility pipeline — ID match at registration, automated SAVE (DHS citizenship verification) integration, address verification at point of registration. |
| "Cut red tape for small businesses" | Faster, simpler business registration — stop penalizing Georgia entrepreneurs | AI triage engine — clean submissions auto-approve in <24 hours; flagged submissions routed to human review with pre-populated AI analysis. 900K entities, most routine. |
| "Government efficiency" | Lean operations, less bureaucracy, faster service delivery | Licensing AI — extend the 48→18 day nursing license success across all 40+ professions. Jones can claim this as a signature deliverable, Day 1. |
| "Transparency" | Public can see the data — no black box elections | Real-time election transparency dashboard — public API + plain-language anomaly flagging visible to citizens in real time. Sterling can't offer this; he's defending the current system. |
| He asks | You say |
|---|---|
| "What exactly would you do for me?" | Build the technical implementation plan for your election integrity platform. Design the AI architecture that turns your platform promises into operational reality. Give you something Sterling cannot offer: a forward-looking technical vision with a specific blueprint behind it. |
| "How do I know this works?" | Because the SOS office already runs on Azure and SQL. I'm not asking you to build from scratch. I'm telling you what to build on top of what's already there. Raffensperger already proved it with the licensing system — 48 days to 18 days. We extend that model everywhere. |
| "What's in it for you?" | Be direct. I believe in the mission of modernizing government. Pro bono through the election. If you win, there's a real conversation about building the office. I'm not here for a title — I'm here because this is the right architecture for where Georgia needs to go. |
| "I don't do social media either" | Good. I'm not your social media person. I'm the person who builds the content engine and the technical platform that gives other people something worth posting about. Strategy first, tactics downstream. |
| Off the table | What it signals to him |
|---|---|
| Social media management | You're a strategist, not staff |
| Door-to-door canvassing | You work at the architecture level |
| Fundraising calls | You're a peer, not a volunteer |
| Debate prep | That's another discipline entirely |
| Day-to-day campaign ops | You're the technical advisor, not the campaign manager |
| Issue | His frame | Your posture |
|---|---|---|
| Arabia Mountain land deal (+$220K profit while he ran the county green space project) | "Perfectly legal investment" | Know it, don't engage it. Use only if he goes defensive and you need to reframe it as strategic instinct. |
| Race discrimination lawsuits — "darker administration" quote | "Hired the best" | Irrelevant to this engagement. Ignore. |
| Ethics Commission sanction 2005 | "Technical error" | Irrelevant. Ignore. |
| January 6 presence | "I spoke. I left." | Do NOT engage. Do NOT reference it except as political context. It is decided. |
| Sexual assault accusation | "Consensual, no charges" | Never bring up. Never. |
| Title | Legal Office Coordinator — DeKalb County Law Department |
| Role type | Senior legal operations support. NOT an attorney. |
| Work email | pamoore@dekalbcountyga.gov |
| County role | Child Advocacy Contact for open records requests |
| FEC — Senate | Vernon Jones for Georgia (C00430959) · Treasurer since Dec 2006 |
| FEC — Congress | Vernon Jones for Congress (C00804286) · Treasurer since Feb 2022 |
| Party span | Democrat 2006 → Republican 2021+. Never left him. |
| Public footprint | Essentially zero. No social media. Deliberate. |
She became his treasurer during his 2006 Senate run — when he was a Democrat. She stayed when he switched parties in 2021, endorsed Trump, and spoke at a rally the day before January 6.
She survived the post-Jones DeKalb County investigations (bid-rigging traced back to his administration, Ethics Commission sanction) without losing her county job. That is not a coincidence. She is careful, quiet, and loyal in that order.
Her compliance orientation is professional and personal — she lives at the intersection of government accountability and political exposure. She knows exactly what a liability looks like.
Not a disqualifier — but she will run a check if this gets real.
Vernon has a public sexual assault allegation (no charges). Patricia has managed 20+ years of his controversies. Pro bono removes financial scrutiny — she has nothing to protect.
Street Grace (140+ LE agencies, DHS adoption, peer-reviewed) is the counternarrative. Registry removal by court order + license fully restored is the legal fact. Amgen background check passed 2024.
Timing: not first conversation. Before any formal engagement. After Patricia signals she wants to keep going.
MUR 6047: FEC Matter Under Review references "Vernon Jones for Georgia ) and P" — the "P" is almost certainly Patricia Moore as co-named treasurer. Outcome unknown — PDF was unreadable binary.
| Item | Amount / Detail | Risk Type |
|---|---|---|
| MUR 6047 complaint | Co-named treasurer, outcome unknown | Unresolved |
| Trump property disbursements | $57,534 signed by Patricia as treasurer | Narrative |
| Dual role | County employee + federal campaign treasurer | Low legal risk |
| Cross-party service | Signed off D→R through Jan 6 period | Narrative |
Bottom line: no personal criminal record found. FEC thread is the main unresolved item. Narrative exposure is real but she knows it and lives with it.
Patricia has a legal operations background — she thinks in compliance, documentation, and risk containment. She is not a political strategist. She is not an AI person. She is the person who asks: will this person create problems?
She passed Bishop through the first filter (initial meeting). That means Bishop is not an obvious threat. Next filter is: what does Bishop actually deliver?
If you have something for Vernon, it goes through Patricia first. If she hasn't seen it, Vernon shouldn't hear it. This is non-negotiable and she is watching for it.
Don't assume Vernon will brief her. CC her. Reference her. Make it visible that you treat her as principal, not assistant.
She thinks like a legal coordinator: what is the scope, what is the output, what is the end date. Give her all three up front.
When she asks questions — answer directly. Don't sell past her. She is not the enemy; she is the mechanism.
| Criminal record | None found |
| FEC MUR 6047 | Unresolved — likely co-named as treasurer. Outcome unknown. |
| Trump disbursements | $57,534 signed. Narrative risk only. |
| County dual role | Low legal risk. Compliant as structured. |
| Personal exposure | No personal allegations, no public controversies found |
| Overall read | Clean. FEC thread is the only live wire — and she already lives with it. |