David Alexander Barnes

FILE – In this Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016, file photo, Chris Carr responds to a reporters’ question during a news conference where he was appointed the next attorney general following the Board of Regents vote to hire current Attorney General Sam Olens as president of Kennesaw State University, in Atlanta. The Georgia attorney general’s office will no longer represent state election officials in an elections integrity lawsuit in which a crucial computer server was quietly wiped clean less than a week after the suit was filed, The Associated Press has learned, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. (David Alexander Barnes/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)