Posted on 02/28/2026 5:24:09 PM PST by MtnClimber
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In December 2025, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia, seeking access to the 2020 election records, citing the federal law that grants the Justice Department jurisdiction to investigate federal elections. Fulton County refused, leading the Justice Department to infer that these public officials were hiding evidence of a crime.
Thereafter, the Justice Department served a criminal search warrant on the Fulton County Election Records Office. Fulton County immediately filed an emergency motion to return the records. This led to the unsealing of the Justice Department’s search warrant affidavit, giving the public a rare look at the investigators’ suspicions about the election. These include witness accounts of pristine mail-in ballots that lacked the creases typically made to fit the ballots into the transmission envelopes, evidence of vote totals that significantly mismatch the recorded ballots, and evidence of ballots counted more than once.
More recently, Fulton County has demanded the return of election records on the basis that they show how individual voters voted. The “voter privacy” claim is advanced in a memo supporting an emergency motion that demands the Justice Department return the documents and that the court issue an order forbidding the Justice Department from examining the records.
According to Fulton County’s own memorandum, the FBI’s recent search warrant caught Fulton County maintaining a list that would violate the Georgia Constitution’s requirement of a secret ballot. The county argued that, “The seizure of records swept up sensitive voter data, such as personal information and records that show how individuals voted, with no apparent restrictions on how the government may use that information. [Emphasis added]”
Since the invention of paper, the technology for secure, prompt election results has not been improved. The method is simple. Citizens who have registered to vote before Election Day need only present proof of their identity before being furnished a pre-printed ballot. The fact that their votes are cast is recorded, but the document recording their vote is anonymized to prevent public officials from tracking which voters voted which way.
The secret ballot is fundamental to a functioning democracy, and it’s what separates free and fair elections from the compulsory endorsement exercises that the state closely monitors in tyrannical regimes. Even in the United States, at least during the Biden administration, the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) got caught avoiding its political enemies when handing out aid during a disaster. Public officials would like nothing more than to have access to a list of how their constituents voted. Punishments and rewards would be much easier to assign.
But Fulton County, like much of the country, kept introducing complications into the voting system, leading to gaps in election security. Ballot secrecy is apparently yet another casualty of these innovations. If the FBI can review Fulton County’s records to determine how individual voters voted, then that information was available to the public officials who maintained those records. I’m sure they promised not to look. But the very existence of such records has no purpose other than to inform public officials seeking to discriminate against people who voted the wrong way.
Section II, Paragraph 1 of the Georgia State Constitution reads:
Method of voting. Elections by the people shall be by secret ballot and shall be conducted in accordance with procedures provided by law.
Under the paper method, public officials cannot reconstruct how individual voters voted. Georgia voters have a constitutional right to vote in secret. The one group of people who should not have access to that information is Georgia state public officials. They have the greatest incentive to look. If Georgia maintained such records, they should be placed under immediate suspicion for violating this constitutional prescription and investigated for potential abuse of sensitive data.
Alternatively, it’s possible that the Fulton County public officials do not have any such data but are merely claiming to have it. There are two reasons they might be doing this.
First, they’re desperately grasping at straws to prevent the Justice Department from reviewing the integrity of the 2020 election in Fulton County.
Second, they want voters to think they have access to such documents, which would encourage voters with potential business before the government to vote “the right way.”
Either way, the voters of Georgia and every other state deserve privacy in the voting booth. They should not be forced to participate in an election in which the government gathers and records data on how individual voters voted. As much as election fraud, this kind of record-keeping undermines the freedom and fairness of elections and violates international election standards.
The legacy media has naturally dismissed the witness accounts of fraud as “debunked conspiracy theories.” But they have not, and cannot, debunk Fulton County’s own claim that it kept records of how people voted in apparent violation of the sacred principle of a secret ballot.
Unless there is a law against it, with penalties, then it does not count.
I wouldn’t put anything past Fulton County. Fani Willis land.
“records that show how individuals voted,” there are a lot of ways to read that—early vote, election day,absentee, remote, drop box, etc , etc , not necesaarily “who they voted for. I’ve been wondering, Bannon has had Cleta Mitchell, I think that’s her name, talking about the e”evidentiary hearin” that was to be held yesterday unless the judge threw ouut the case Ful Co. had brought. Did anyone hear how that turned out?
Bear, woods, some assembly required.
“Citizens who have registered to vote before Election Day need only present proof of their identity before being furnished a pre-printed ballot.”
Objection, you Honor! Assuming facts not in evidence!
The judge sent it to mediation instead of dismissal for no standing. The plaintiffs have no standing unless they can “persuade” an official to join them.
“Did anyone hear how that turned out?”
‘”Hearing on Fulton County Election Board raid delayed”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/georgia/article_5137b790-4be9-4dc1-bbbe-ebd18ca6eb69.html
“…..search warrant affidavit, giving the public a rare look at the investigators’ suspicions about the election. These include witness accounts of pristine mail-in ballots that lacked the creases typically made to fit the ballots into the transmission envelopes, evidence of vote totals that significantly mismatch the recorded ballots, and evidence of ballots counted more than once.”
Obvious election fraud just like all those ballots from the CCP that showed up.
Democrats can’t win unless they engage in fraud.
Democrats can’t live unless they swindle billions from the taxpayers.
Democrats can’t live a life of luxury unless they accept bribes from the CCP and drug cartels.
Every time I walk in and see those >*#¥ Dominion outing machines, I seethe. They bring in people who are obviously not our neighbors to run the thing. It is absolutely infuriating! I want the Fulton County machine crushed.
You can have a functional voting system that is public. I was taking a British history class. In the chapter discussing the expansion of the franchise in the 19th century, they discussed whether to have secret or public voting. They decided to continue public voting because secret ballots were subject to ballot box stuffing "like the Americans had.". Yep, we had the reputation for election fraud even back then.
in other words, “it’s all about the Benjamins.” How blatant can it be, surely they won’t get away with that.
Kim Jarrett who wrote the article more likely related to Valerie Jarrett than to Greg, the lawyer onn Fox.
Hope spring eternal even if “hope is not a plan”.
LOL! I suspect you are right.
Here is another article on proposed changes in Georgia’s voting laws.
“Proposed bill would limit early voting locations in Georgia”
“Georgia lawmakers are considering a sweeping overhaul of the state’s elections under new legislation at the Gold Dome.
The bill would move the state fully to hand-marked paper ballots and limit where early voting can take place. It would also put the State Election Board in charge of recounts and election challenges.
Right now, voters can cast an early ballot at any location within their county. The legislation, sponsored by Republican Senator Greg Dolezal, would assign voters an early voting location based on where they live.
“We would assign voters to an early voting location; and so the thinking there is that most people are going to vote at the early voting location closest to their home anyway,” Dolezal said.
Dolezal says the vision of the bill is for it to be implemented for the November 2026 election.”
That is just standard chatgpt boilerplate language used by DEI attys, It does not mean anything other than that.
I would be a million dollars none of the attys involved in drafting that could even insert a thumbdrive into one of the “secure” voting machines.
thanks, it sounds like a great bill.
You misspelled “DemoKKKraps”....
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