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Georgia ballots rejected by machines were later altered by election workers to count
justthenews.com ^ | 8/8/2021 | John Solomon, Daniel Payne and Natalia Mittelstadt

Posted on 08/08/2021 8:49:51 PM PDT by bitt

Records obtained by Just the News provide unprecedented glimpse into human adjudication of thousands of ballots, where marks for candidates like Trump were sometimes removed so ballots could count for Biden.

A day after the November election, as Donald Trump and other Republican candidates clung to evaporating leads in Georgia, vote counters in Atlanta were confronted by a paper ballot known only by its anonymizing number 5150-232-18.

A Dominion Voting machine had rejected the ballot on election night because the voter had filled in boxes for both Trump and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, an error known as an "overvote." The machine determined neither candidate should get a tally, and the ballot was referred for human review.

The image of the ballot, obtained by Just the News, shows the voter messily scribbled a large blob in the box to select Trump as president while also putting a thinner check mark next to Biden's name.

At 6:10 p.m. ET on Nov. 4, 24 hours after the ballot was first scanned and rejected by Machine 5150, a panel of humans decided the vote should be awarded to Biden, with the notation "mark removed for Donald J. Trump." You can see that ballot here:

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2021-08/05150_00232_000018_0.pdf

Scores of additional ballots that same day had checks manually removed next to Trump's name as well as many other candidates up and down the ticket — Libertarians, Democrats and write-ins alike — and the votes awarded instead to other candidates.

Welcome to the arcane process known as adjudication, where human judgment is substituted for machine scanning in cases where voters incorrectly filled out a paper ballot. Election officials and official observers have dealt with it for years, with everyday citizens mostly oblivious to the process.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: 2020election; altered; audit; ga; georgia; georgiaballots
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1 posted on 08/08/2021 8:49:51 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 08/08/2021 8:50:04 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

So what will be the outcome of all this?


3 posted on 08/08/2021 8:58:52 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: bitt

Is this what this guy was saying last year…..

Georgia Elections Director casually admits that 94% of 113,000 ballots needed adjudication. Huh?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FnCWkAVLSI4


4 posted on 08/08/2021 9:01:56 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: jmacusa

The status quo


5 posted on 08/08/2021 9:06:37 PM PDT by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: bitt

Very interesting. Some important questions:
1) Who was on the adjudication panel
2) The adjudication process requires both Republican and Democratic representatives present, were they?
3) If there were GOP operatives can they be traced to the Secretary of State and demonstrate his role in the steal?


6 posted on 08/08/2021 9:13:48 PM PDT by Renfrew
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To: bitt
The opening line, in a slow, penetrating, suspenseful deep voice:

"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?"

The quiet whispering punch-line answer:

"De shaddow do!"

7 posted on 08/08/2021 9:43:41 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: jmacusa
So what will be the outcome of all this?

To ask the question is to already know the answer.

This particular ballot won't move the needle for anyone who has already decided what they believe. It's a single ballot, and if you're being honest with yourself it pretty clearly looks like the voter scribbled out a mark for Trump and voted Biden because every other mark on the ballot was identical to the Biden mark, not the trump mark.

Of course if you're being honest about what a vote adjudicator is supposed to do, the instructions clearly state "so not make a check mark, fill in the circle completely", and the only circle completely filled in on the entire ballot is for Trump, so the question isn't "is this a trump voter" as much as " this ballot wasn't filled out correctly, does that mean it gets thrown out, do we look past the voter's inability to follow directions, or does it mean the accidental vote for Trump counts?"

whatever you think, the rules should have been established publicly before the election, and adhered to strictly and consistently across the state. That's what fair is.

8 posted on 08/08/2021 11:01:02 PM PDT by jz638
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To: jz638

I vote via Georgia Absentee ballot in every election. It’s not like hanging chads. You’d have to have a major case of Parkinson’s disease to mark something by mistake. It sounds more like they couldn’t scan the ballot for some reason so they have to count it manually. The only way you could really cheat on it is by either willfully miscounting or filling in a choice that was left blank. A willful miscount would be easy to spot in a recount and I doubt there would be enough blank choices to sway anything larger than a local election where a vote or 2 could make the difference.


9 posted on 08/08/2021 11:32:25 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Renfrew

The adjudication process was where a lot of the FRAUD occurred. The fed max acceptable rate was supposed to be someone tiny number like .1 percent of all ballots. Widely reported in 2020 that the adjudication rates skyrocketed in many RAT vote centers by orders of magnitude to DOUBLE DIGIT RATES.


10 posted on 08/08/2021 11:57:25 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: bitt

In RAT FRAUD centers, partisan RATS mark Trump ballots with a mark for Biden also so the vote machine rejects them and they go to adjudication. The adjudicators consists of only partition RATS who award those ballots to Biden. That is how a lot of the fraud occurred. It is why the adjudication rates skyrocketed in 2020 from historical norms.


11 posted on 08/09/2021 12:03:47 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: BiglyCommentary

Note: This fraud technique was premeditated and shared at a national level. It WAS NOT something that some sneaky RAT thought up in some isolated district on election day.


12 posted on 08/09/2021 12:07:43 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Renfrew
The adjudication process requires both Republican and Democratic representatives present, were they?

Widely reported that there was only one RAT overseer. Same story as the GOP observers being shutout or placed 50=100 feet away or not told when the counts resumed in the middle of the night so they could be there.

13 posted on 08/09/2021 12:12:21 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
The only way you could really cheat on it is by either willfully miscounting or filling in a choice that was left blank.

With only one party in control of the ballots, it was very easy to spoil Trump ballots by also checking a circle for Biden. Then instead of rejecting thousands of Trump ballots, they decided to "adjudicate" them for Joe and the Ho. And so the Republic foundered.
14 posted on 08/09/2021 1:03:45 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

“A willful miscount would be easy to spot”

I could be wrong about this but don’t the Dominion machines reprint a proper ballot after adjudication? And weren’t there lots of ballets shredded, presumably the dirty marked up ones? So during the recounts there is nothing nefarious to see.


15 posted on 08/09/2021 2:10:10 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: jmacusa; bitt; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; ...
The ballot itself is odd. The only one that looks legit IS the Trump Vote. In the instructions, it states to NOT use a checkmark. The only one on the ballot that is marked that DOESN'T have a checkmark is Trump's vote.

Something is wrong here:







The only thing that would make sense to me, is that it was ONLY for Trump, and the others were added later.
(Or, possibly the person changed his/her mind and "scratched out" the Trump bubble, but all of the others are still unusable because they are checkmarks)
16 posted on 08/09/2021 2:11:56 AM PDT by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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To: bitt

BTTT!.......................


17 posted on 08/09/2021 5:14:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: bitt

If they can do this then they could EASILY have ‘over-voted’ any ballot they wanted, by adding a mark for Biden.

Then ‘adjudicating’ it as a vote for Biden.

Find one with two different inks. That would be telling.

This STINK all over- and THE ENTIRE DEMOCRAT PARTY must have been involved.


18 posted on 08/09/2021 5:20:12 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Bikkuri

(Or, possibly the person changed his/her mind and “scratched
out” the Trump bubble, but all of the others are still unusable
because they are checkmarks)

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The instructions say to fill in the bubble not a check mark.
DO NOT USE CHECK MARKS, it says.


19 posted on 08/09/2021 5:50:57 AM PDT by deport ( )
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To: Renfrew; bitt

Very interesting. Some important questions:
1) Who was on the adjudication panel
2) The adjudication process requires both Republican and Democratic representatives present, were they?
3) If there were GOP operatives can they be traced to the Secretary of State and demonstrate his role in the steal?

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I think I read that 1st level of adjucation process include both dem & repub monitors.

if they can’t agree on where the vote should be assigned, the ballot is ELEVATED to an election supervisor who makes the final determination


20 posted on 08/09/2021 6:02:49 AM PDT by thinden
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