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Posted on 01/30/2026 12:11:47 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Unsigned tabulator tapes and missing records demand answers
On Wednesday, the FBI seized 700 boxes of Fulton County, Georgia’s 2020 presidential election records.
Last month, Fulton County officials admitted they didn’t properly verify 315,000 votes in the contentious 2020 election, where Joe Biden won the state by a slim 11,779 margin.
County attorney Ann Brumbaugh told the state’s elections board in a Dec. 9, 2025, meeting that the county didn’t properly sign tabulator tapes after the election, which was in violation of state regulations. Tabulator tapes are printed receipts from tabulation machines used to verify that the number of voters matches the number of votes.
As local Georgia station WALB News 10 noted at the time, tabulator tapes “are a key piece of the verification and certification process in every county election across the state” and “Georgia regulations state that a poll manager and two witnesses must be present for the printing, checking and signing of each tape from the machines.”
The unsigned tapes accounted for nearly every early ballot cast in the county before Election Day. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger downplayed the revelation as a clerical error, arguing it wouldn’t have changed the results of a heavily audited election.
Yet that did nothing to quell suspicions of voter fraud.
“A clerical error could be one tabulator tape not signed or one tabulator tape missing,” Garland Favorito, who leads the conservative watchdog group VoterGA, told WALB News in December. “Not 148 tabulator tapes missing.”
In October, the U.S. Department of Justice subpoenaed Fulton County’s 2020 ballots, but the county ignored the request. After Ms. Brumbaugh’s admission in December, the DOJ filed a lawsuit accusing county officials of violating the Civil Rights Act by refusing to hand over the ballots.
For six years, Fulton County has been fighting tooth and nail to...
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I’m thinking the main reason behind this is to derail Raffensperger’s gubernatorial bid.
When 20 of these crooks gets a year and a day in prison maybe things will improve.
We owe Garland a huge debt of thanks
Without his timely injunction to preserve the ballots and election info this would all have been destroyed by now
If he subverted the people’s will in the most important election our country holds, he should be hanged from a gallows built on the White House lawn.
probably in other places like detroit phoenix minneapolis and philadelphia—this evidence was destroyed long ago.
still the dems have had plenty of the time to clean up the evidence.
so I would not be surprised if the feds found nothing.
I hope nobody minds, but I asked Gemini to explain what nefarious activity unsigned tabulator tapes could be covering up. I think the explanation was very helpful:
To understand the critics’ position, you have to look at the tabulator tape as a legal seal.
When critics focus on the fact that these tapes exist but are unsigned, they aren’t just complaining about missing ink. They are arguing that the integrity of the “snapshot” was compromised.
Here is the specific “harm” they claim the lack of signatures could be covering up:
1. The “Middle-of-the-Night” Injection
The most common allegation is that the machines were “topped off” with fraudulent votes after the legal voting hours ended.
The Logic: If a tape is printed and signed at 7:00 PM, it “freezes” the count. If a tape is printed but not signed until later (or never signed), critics argue there is no witness-verified proof of when that machine stopped counting.
The Alleged Harm: This allows for a window of time where someone could scan a stack of “emergency” ballots to close a gap in the results without a poll worker’s signature to verify the machine’s final tally matched the day’s actual voter turnout.
2. Reconciliation Failure (The “Ghost Voter” Problem)
Every precinct has a Numbered List of Voters (the names of people who actually showed up). At the end of the day, the number on that list must match the number of ballots on the tabulator tape.
The Alleged Harm: If the numbers didn’t match (e.g., 500 people signed in, but the machine says 550 votes were cast), a poll worker would be legally hesitant to sign that tape because it’s a “false” record.
The Critic’s View: They argue that the reason 130+ tapes went unsigned is that the numbers didn’t reconcile, and rather than documenting the error (as required by Georgia Rule 183-1-12-.12), the records were simply left unverified to hide the discrepancy.
3. Memory Card Swapping
Digital security experts aligned with the critics argue that the signature on the tape is supposed to correspond with a specific memory card seal.
The Alleged Harm: Without a signed tape to “marry” the physical paper results to the digital memory card at the moment the polls closed, a card could theoretically be swapped for one with different digital totals before it reached the central counting office. The signature is the “chain of custody” link that prevents this.
4. Illegal Certification (The Procedural Harm)
For many critics, the “harm” is the act of certification itself. Under Georgia law, the superintendent is supposed to verify the signatures before consolidating the vote.
The Critic’s View: By certifying 315,000 votes without those signatures, Fulton County effectively said “trust us” instead of “here is the proof.” Critics argue this sets a precedent where rules become optional, allowing future bad actors to ignore security protocols whenever it’s “convenient.”
Why the FBI Raid (Jan 2026) is Significant
The recent seizure of these records by the FBI suggests they are looking for evidence of intent. * If it was a “clerical error,” the physical ballots and digital logs should still perfectly match the unsigned tapes.
If the critics are right, the FBI may find that the physical paper trail (the ballots they just seized) does not match the numbers on those unsigned tapes, which would suggest the lack of signatures was a way to bypass a reconciliation failure.
“If he subverted the people’s will in the most important election our country holds, he should be hanged from a gallows built on the White House lawn.”
Yes.
>> I’m thinking the main reason behind this is to derail Raffensperger’s gubernatorial bid.
I’m believing that that would be time and effort well spent.
That puke at a minimum ought never to work again, and die in poverty and ignominy.
I bet they won’t be able to prove anything.
DEMOCRATS are LAWLESS because REPUBLICANS are BALLLESS.
2020 Fulton County Bump!
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Apparently, the Senate and House intelligence committees are very concerned about what Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is doing. Almost every tweet from Senator Mark Warner in the past 48 hours has been about DNI Tulsi Gabbard.
What seems to worry them the most is that they don’t know exactly what she is doing. Triggered by Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Vice-Chairman Mark Warner, the Democrats are now demanding Director Gabbard tell them her intentions and her itinerary so they can monitor her activity. Tulsi Gabbard continues to review internal government activity without consulting them.
“Director Gabbard recognizes that election security is essential for the integrity of our republic and our nation’s security. As DNI, she has a vital role in identifying vulnerabilities in our critical infrastructure and protecting against exploitation,” a DNI spokesperson noted. “We know through intelligence and public reporting that electronic voting systems have been and are vulnerable to exploitation. President Trump’s directive to secure our elections was clear, and DNI Gabbard has and will continue to take actions within her authorities, alongside our interagency partners, to support ensuring the integrity of our elections,” the DNI spokesperson said.
We will continue to take actions alongside our interagency partners
@FBI @TheJusticeDept to support ensuring the integrity of our elections.@DAGToddBlanche: “[@DNIGabbard] is an extraordinarily important part of this administration
…we coordinate everything as a group…her presence shouldn’t be questioned—that’s a big part of her job.”
Thursday evening while attending the premier of ‘Melania’ at the Kennedy Center, President Trump said, “you’re going to see some interesting things happening. They’ve been trying to get there for a long time.”
According to the Wall Street Journal:
[…] “[Tulsi Gabbard] has begun studying information about voting machines, analyzed data from swing states and pursued theories that President Trump has promoted to claim the 2020 election was unfairly taken from him, the officials said, particularly on foreign government interference.
She has regularly briefed Trump and chief of staff Susie Wiles about her inquiry in recent months along with others involved in the investigation. Those include senior Justice Department officials, Trump’s outside ally and lawyer Cleta Mitchell and Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who pushed claims in 2020 that the election was stolen and joined the administration as a special government employee.
Gabbard has consulted with others in the intelligence community about claims of foreign interference in the 2020 election, the officials said, though she hasn’t provided the public with new evidence of it.
She is expected to prepare a report on her work, the people said. The administration has discussed executive orders on voting ahead of the midterm elections, two of the officials said.
[…] Democrats criticized Gabbard’s election effort. “Either Director Gabbard believes there was a legitimate foreign intelligence nexus—in which case she is in clear violation of her obligation under the law to keep the intelligence committees ‘fully and currently informed’ of relevant national security concerns—or she is once again demonstrating her utter lack of fitness for the office,” said Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee. (more – paywall)
There are a lot of interconnected aspects to all of this, many circle around the Intelligence Community’s prior and current involvement in various operations against the interests of the Office of the President.
As noted by Paul Sperry:
“In a letter, ex-CIA chief John Brennan’s lawyer said his client has “complied” w/ a fed grand jury subpoena seeking, among other things, materials related to his role in creation of the Obama-ordered ICA on Russia + Trump covering the period from July 1, 2016 to Feb 28, 2017.”
Most people are not aware how the 2016/2017 CIA work product known as the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) ties directly into the 2019 impeachment effort against President Trump for the Ukraine phone call with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
A key architect of the 2017 ICA was a CIA analyst on Russian issues named Eric Ciaramella. The anonymous CIA whistleblower who facilitated the 2019 impeachment effort was the same Eric Ciaramella.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard previously released information showing how the 2017 ICA was fraudulently constructed, and now DNI Gabbard has reviewed the transcribed testimony of former Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, where he described how he gained authority to change the CIA rules to permit Ciaramella to remain anonymous in 2019. All of this ties together.
[VIA Politico] – […] Sen. Mark Warner, (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, argued on X Wednesday that there “are only two explanations” for Gabbard’s presence in the raid.
“Either Director Gabbard believes there was a legitimate foreign intelligence nexus — in which case she is in clear violation of her obligation under the law to keep the intelligence committees ‘fully and currently informed’ of relevant national security concerns — or she is once again demonstrating her utter lack of fitness for the office that she holds by injecting the nonpartisan intelligence community she is supposed to be leading into a domestic political stunt designed to legitimize conspiracy theories that undermine our democracy,” he wrote.
Warner and House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) wrote to Gabbard Thursday to request briefings for both panels about the legal basis, scope, and justification of her participation in the raid. (more)
DNI Tulsi Gabbard continues to work on behalf of the American people; that seems to have triggered Senator Mark Warner.
The need for control is a reaction to fear.
Dear Senator Warner.....
You lack the need to know
Black Democrats are entitled wackos and black supremacists. They think they are owed everything, including reparations and voter fraud.
90% of Black Democrats are on the govt dole via welfare, a useless govt job, or an NGO/bogus charity.
No obligation to keep criminals, like these dems on the committees who were part of the 2020 steal, informed so that they can go leaking those "secrets" to the mockingbird Times and Post.
Two Democrats wrote that letter. It is balderdash.
She was a "Ride along" observer of the warranted search and seizure of those boxes, he was an informed "Ride Along" observer of Russia Gate Hoax and/or Crossfire Hurricane attempt to bring down Trump and is worried about what is probably about to happen.
ping to read
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