Posted on 04/04/2021 1:08:27 PM PDT by Hostage
Old Proverb – Those With Nothing To Hide Don’t Try To Hide Things
GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger seems like he has a secret. The man in charge of ensuring fair elections in the Peach State really doesn’t want anyone looking at the actual ballots from the Nov 3rd U.S. general election.
GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger seems like he has a secret. The man in charge of ensuring fair elections in the Peach State really doesn’t want anyone looking at the actual ballots from the Nov 3rd U.S. general election.
There is an old proverb — those with nothing to hide don’t try to hide things.
Fair election activists from VoterGA.org have worked hard and succeeded in gaining access to ballots from Fulton County, GA for a forensic audit. A judge will rule on the procedures later this month.
This is scaring the pants off those who enabled the massive election fraud in November’s general election and the GA Senate run-off in January.
We have seen the same obstruction of justice in Maricopa County, AZ and other swing-states which were hit by fraud.
The GA Secretary of State’s office filed an amicus brief yesterday in support of corrupt Fulton County election officials.
(Link to brief found in article)
Here are some amazing highlights from the legal filing:
Raffensperger suggests he is simply ‘protecting the public’s interest’ in allowing on the ballot images to be used, and not the actual paper records.
The Secretary respectfully requests that the Court permit Petitioners to inspect ballot images only, and deny Petitioners’ request to inspect and scan ballots.
Petitioners have submitted to the Court a proposed order granting their Motion to Unseal, which would grant Petitioners sweeping and unprecedented access to all ballots. (the horror)
Raffensperger also told an ‘alternative fact’ in his brief, claiming VoterGA wants to move the ballots from their secure location for the audit. CDMedia spoke to VoterGA and this is simply not true.
First, it is important to clarify the difference between “ballots” and “ballot images.” “Ballots” include (1) paper ballots produced by ballot marking devices (“BMDs”) used in in-person advanced voting and election-day voting; 1 (2) absentee-by-mail paper ballots; and (3) UOCAVA paper ballots. Ballots are then scanned through optical voting scanners selected and furnished by the State of Georgia pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 21-2-300. Once scanned, an electronic ballot image is created and stored on a memory card (“ballot images”).
So in short, Raffensperger wants VoterGA to only have access to the ‘images’ that were created by equipment furnished by the GA Secretary of State’s office and not the actual ballots that show the intended anonymous vote of GA citizens.
The arrogance is quite shocking; although, after Nov 3rd, we shouldn’t be shocked at anything.
Raffensperger declares that only he is allowed to see what actually happened.
The Elections Code is furthermore clear that it is only authorized elections officials who are legally permitted to verify and tabulate ballots in an election.
And, he doesn’t want any outside technology that can detect counterfeit ballots.
Moreover, the scanning and tabulation of ballots is only permitted under Georgia law to be conducted on the equipment selected and furnished by the State of Georgia.
There is simply no legal basis for unauthorized third parties such as Petitioners to electronically scan ballots using their own equipment in order to conduct their own independent tabulation of ballots.
Allowing Petitioners to conduct their own scan on uncertified and unknown equipment is contrary to law and would set a new and dangerous precedent going forward.
Perhaps Raffensperger should add to his brief that only Chinese equipment is allowed to scan American ballots.
Finally, Raffensperger declares its simply too late for anyone to do anything about the massive election fraud which occurred on Nov 3rd.
To the extent that Petitioners are using this open records act enforcement action as a pretext for challenging the legality of ballots cast in the general election, it is too late for them to assert such a challenge now, and any request for relief would be barred by the applicable statute of limitations.
After reading the amicus brief in full filed by the GA Secretary of State’s office, we believe any intellectually honest person would now want to scan the real ballots, and not just the ‘ballot images’ created by machines.
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What were they promised for lying?
Eternal political power.
Same as an admission of GUILT.
What’s this TURD trying to hide in the 2020 election toilet of insurrection?
Must be a real criminal CESSPOOL.
I’d sure hate to see him just... fall down or something.
“He’s stalling until his sub-stooges get things “re-arranged”.”
The right judges have to be schmiered first.
Where is Governor Kemp? Where is the Georgia GOP delegation in Congress? Where are the two recently defeated GOP Senate candidates? Where is the GOP led Georgia legislatures? Where are the party movers and shakers in the state? If they are not screaming their lungs out demanding a proper investigation, and telling Raffensperger to get in line, then they are all complicit.
Democrat mole.
I’ve said it over and over, anyone who thinks it was a free and fair election should be screaming for audits and recounts. Only those who know it was stolen are trying to prevent them.
“Finally, Raffensperger declares its simply too late for anyone to do anything about the massive election fraud which occurred on Nov 3rd.”
Yes, it’s too late for the November 3rd election, BUT it could have implications in overturning the special election results when it’s shown that both demsheviks received thousands of fraudulent votes and were illegally seated.
This seems to be the basis of Raffensperger’s argument:
“The Elections Code is furthermore clear that it is only authorized elections officials who are legally permitted to verify and tabulate ballots in an election.”
Hopefully the judge will see right through this ridiculous claim. The audit is not an election. The election is over. The audit is investigating fraud by “the authorized elections Officials” and others who verified and tabulated ballots on the election. Per Raffensperger’s logic, no Law Enforcement agency, and not even the State legislature, could investigate ballots under any circumstances ever.
Liz - Good post.
Ordinary gumshoe work shows the one-on-one matchups have mega-fakes involved.
Thanks for the reminder.
ptsal
I don’t care one whit about the ballots. I want to see an audit of the Fulton County absentee ballot envelope signatures against the Fulton County voter roll signatures.
That will reveal the extent of the voting fraud at the State Farm Arena.
You will never see that.
The envelopes and the ballots are immediately seperated, and the envelopes are now destroyed.
It is way too difficult to audit ballots in AZ and GA. What about transparency that is required for a free and fair election?
As to voting machines, open source software only. Again transparency needed for a fair and free election.
You got that right!
Raffy is a dirty bird along with Kemp. They both belong in Gitmo.
Weren’t about 67% of the ballots in Fulton County rejected by the system which then required hand adjudication? I remember someone giving a presser and acting like that was a good thing instead of the system failure it actually showed the world!
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