Fulton County reprimanded for double-scanned ballots in 2020 recount

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | May 7, 2024 | Mark Niesse

[george76]

State Election Board calls for a monitor in Fulton for this year’s elections..

The State Election Board reprimanded Fulton County and ordered an independent election monitor Tuesday, finding that the county likely scanned over 3,000 ballots twice during the recount of the 2020 presidential election.

The decision, on a 2-1 vote, resolves one of the last remaining investigations of the 2020 election, drawing jeers from a crowd of Republican voters who wanted more severe punishment against the Democrat county.

The case exposed errors in Fulton’s 2020 recount but didn’t indicate any fraud in the election, which Democrat Joe Biden won by a 11,779-vote margin in Georgia over Republican Donald Trump. Three vote counts — two by machine and one by hand — each showed similar results.

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The Houston County voter who brought the complaint, Joe Rossi, said the investigation shows that the 2020 election was flawed, both during the recount and the hand audit of all 5 million votes cast. The State Election Board last year found that thousands of votes were double-counted or misallocated during an audit in Fulton.

“It has now been factually proven that both the hand audit, which is really, really important, and the certified machine count, have both been found to be in violation of Georgia election law,” Rossi told the board. “I’ll close with one word: vindicated.”

[xxqqzz]

How to get 80 million votes. Just scan the same ballots over and over again.

[George J. Jetso]

Is the anything in Fulton County that is not corrupt?

[SomeCallMeTim]

Ping

[Eagles6]

Magic🙄

[cableguymn]

Meanwhile they are trying to build the jail on top of the alternate electors in Arizona

[Robert A Cook PE]

Oooooh! Double Secret Probation!

[Lockbox]

Yep. Tough punishment that state.

[Lazamataz]

Ruby Freeman got a medal for her efforts.

Yup. Corruption, handsomely rewarded.

[Eagle Forgotten]

“Unfortunately the website is not available to European readers, so could you, please, tell me how they explained that all the vote counts were equal despite some votes being double counted?”

The officials’ explanation is that the ballots were SCANNED twice but not COUNTED twice. Sometimes, when they fed a ballot into a scanner, it didn’t get scanned properly for some reason, so they tried again.

The obvious check would be to examine the list of people who signed in to vote. The number of such voters in a precinct should equal the total number of ballots counted in that precinct. I don’t know whether this was done.

[lepton]

Do understand, though the suitcases should never have been put under the table, and the count should not have been restarted after inducing the observers and media to leave, the suitcases were the same ones which had just been packed up. You can clearly see that by the patterns of labels on the suitcases.

[lepton]

Ruby scanned the same batch over and over and over again.

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Yep, and the recount was faked to match the original results. Any legitimate recount would have caught the ‘mistake’.

[lepton]

so could you, please, tell me how they explained that all the vote counts were equal despite some votes being double counted? (Every time irrespective of manual or machine counts??)

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They didn’t actually do a recount. They just re-reported their earlier results and changed a couple batch results so it wasn’t suspicious. There were found, in fact, in *partial* audits batches (usually around 100 ballots) which were very different in size from the marked counts, as well as at least one which was marked 100% Biden even though there were IIRC, about 20 Trump votes in the batch. Any actual recount would have caught those things regardless of any change in the outcome.

[linMcHlp]

vote fraud
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