Posted on 05/08/2024 6:15:16 AM PDT by lowbridge
The Georgia secretary of state’s office has determined Fulton County used improper procedures during its 2020 presidential election recount.
During a Georgia state elections board meeting on Tuesday, Charlene McGowan, general counsel for the secretary of state’s office, said, “The conclusion of this investigation ... is that Fulton County used improper procedures during the recount of the presidential contest in 2020.”
McGowan stressed the investigation’s outcome doesn’t change the election’s overall outcome, an election that saw Joe Biden become the first Democrat since 1992 to carry any deep Southern state on his way to ousting his Oval Office predecessor, Donald Trump.
“This investigation confirmed what we already knew,” McGowan said. “There is nothing we have learned that is new from this investigation.”
The secretary of state’s office launched its investigation after a July 8, 2022, complaint was filed alleging vote count irregularities involving 17,852 ballots. McGowan said the investigation uncovered some duplicative ballot images that Fulton County provided, suggesting some ballots may have been scanned more than once.
The state elections board is sending a letter of reprimand to the county and also ordered a monitor to oversee this year’s critical 2024 presidential election.
“Fulton County’s performance during the 2020 elections has been exhaustively scrutinized but the results, confirmed by three different counts, have not changed,” said Fulton County spokesperson Jessica Corbitt. “Nor has there been any evidence of fraud or malfeasance. As in previous reviews, most of the claims in this complaint were found to be unsubstantiated, and, again, the results are not in question.
“Since the 2020 election, Fulton County has hired a new director, implemented numerous procedural updates and invested in a new elections headquarters,” Corbitt said. “It has conducted six elections and independent monitors have noted improvement. Fulton County looks forward to putting these cases
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I would love to hear a response or the arrest of Ratburger (Raffensbeger).
And the previous Fulton County democrat selectors (er, counters of their democrat party votes) were awarded the Medal of Slavery (er, Freedom) by Joe Biden for their services rendered in 2020. And in the Senate runoff’s in 2020. And 2022.
New HQ huh? Can’t have cameras they don’t control watching/catching the cheat like in Fulton county arena.
BS Article.
Yep 2020 100% legit and secure.... so we hired a new director, changed procedures and have a new HQ... oh yeah and we admit we didnt do the recount right either.....
File this under “Gaslight”.
The secretary of state’s office launched its investigation after a July 8, 2022, complaint was filed alleging vote count irregularities involving 17,852 ballots. McGowan said the investigation uncovered some duplicative ballot images that Fulton County provided, suggesting some ballots may have been scanned more than once.
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that’s hard to deny after looking at the late night video of ruby & her crew running the ballots
Gee, that's putting it mildly.
But that's not supposed to affect the result?
That prick ratburger would be among the first group of traitors l would arrest if l had the power
Georgia oversight panel ruminates on 2020 election hiccups as 2024 showdowns loom (May 7, 2024)
Note: yesterday, I saw on Twitter a much higher irregularity number than is in this article.
Figures never lie, but liars figure. Especially in Fulton County, GA
Arrest, hell. Straight to the helipad.
Works for me but l think a wood chipper would be cheaper
and she should have been arrested on the spot for suchh a bald face lie
plain and simple.... Georgia cheated and the powers that be in Georgia and democrate party were just fine with it and we got biden.... way to Georgia, the country is being destroyed.
And now Fulton county is trying to put Trump and many others in jail for questioning the crocked election. Figgers
Yes and they aren’t going to do anything about it. 🙄
Georgia State Elections Board says
<><>Fulton County double-scanned ballots
<><>they didn’t keep ballot images, as required by Georgia law.
<><>380,000 ballot images are missing in Fulton County.
yahoo.com-——Gov kemp signed legislation Tuesday that makes additional changes to Georgia’s election laws ahead of the 2024 presidential contest in the battleground state, including defining probable causes for removing voters from the rolls when their eligibility is challenged.
Republican activists — fueled by debunked theories of a stolen election — have challenged more than 100,000 voters in the state in recent years. The activists say they are rooting out duplicate records and removing voters who have moved out of state.
The bill Kemp signed into law — SB 189 — lists death, evidence of voting or registering in another jurisdiction, a tax exemption indicating a primary residence elsewhere, or a nonresidential address as probable causes for removing voters from the rolls. Most controversially, it says the National Change of Address list can be considered, though not exclusively.
Supporters have said the probable cause definition would make the challenge process more difficult. Opponents have disputed that, saying the changes would enable more baseless attacks on voters that would overwhelm election administrators and disenfranchise legitimate voters. For example, people sometimes live at a place of business, which would be considered a nonresidential address. Officials with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office say there are more reliable types of information, such as driver’s license data, to confirm a voter’s eligibility.
The Georgia bill also allows challenges to be accepted and voters removed from the rolls up until 45 days before an election. That provision in part has prompted the threat of lawsuits from liberal groups because federal law says states and counties can’t make systematic changes to voting rolls within 90 days of a federal election.
The measure also says homeless people must use the county voter registration office as their address instead of where they live. Opponents have said that could make it harder for homeless citizens to cast ballots because their registered polling place might be far away.
Fair Fight Action, a voting rights group founded by former Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, slammed the signing of SB 189, calling the measure a “voter suppression bill that emboldens right-wing activists in their efforts to kick Black and brown voters off the rolls.”
“By signing SB 189 to become law, Brian Kemp delivered a gift to MAGA election deniers,” the group said in a statement.
Andrea Young, executive director of the ACLU of Georgia, called the bill a “step back for voters’ rights and voting access.”
“We are committed to protecting Georgia voters and will see the governor in court,” she said in a statement.
An email to a spokesman for the governor’s office, Garrison Douglas, was not immediately returned.
The bill also grants access to Georgia’s ballot to any political party that has qualified for the presidential ballot in at least 20 states or territories. The change could bolster independent candidates such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose campaign has spooked Democrats worried it could draw support away from President Joe Biden.
Other changes in the bill include removing Raffensperger from his ex-officio spot on the State Election Board. Kemp and Republican lawmakers had previously removed Raffensperger from his voting position on the board.
Many Republicans who believe debunked theories that former President Donald Trump was cheated out of Georgia’s 16 electoral votes in 2020 view Raffensperger as a particular enemy because the Republican secretary of state has forcefully defended the election results showing Biden won.
Raffensperger and some others had lobbied for Kemp, himself a former secretary of state, to veto the bill.
The bill, additionally, says that beginning July 1, 2026, the state can no longer use a kind of barcode called a QR code to count ballots created on the state ballot marking devices. That is how votes are counted now, but opponents say voters don’t trust QR codes because they can’t read them. Instead, the bill says ballots must be read using the text, or human-readable marks like filled-in bubbles, made by the machines.
The bill also requires counties to report the results of all absentee ballots by an hour after polls close. It also lets counties use paper ballots in elections in which fewer than 5,000 people are registered, though that change will not take effect until 2025.
Kemp on Tuesday vetoed a separate election bill that would ban political contributions by foreign nationals and impose additional registration requirements on agents of foreign principals. The governor noted that such donations are already prohibited by federal law, and he said some of the registration requirements were not intended by the bill’s sponsor.
Doesn’t matter how many times you count illegal ballot box stuffed ballots,you come up with the same crooked outcome
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