Posted on 02/06/2026 10:29:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Where is it that the chickens go to roost? If you said “home,” you don’t quite get it. The correct answer is “Fulton County, Georgia.” At least, that’s where the chickens were congregating at the end of January when the FBI raided a Fulton County election office and made off with some 700 boxes of ballots and other election materials. Seven hundred, kemo sabe.
According to the official search warrant, the G-Men were there to seize “all records relating to violations of Title 52, United States Code, 20701 and 20511.” It’s always scary when people start talking about “United States Code this and that” because at the end of the day you know that it’s all so much foreplay culminating in the word “felony.” In this case, the FBI was hoovering up:
a. All physical ballots from the 2020 General Election in Fulton County: including, but not limited to: absentee ballots to include envelopes; advanced voting ballots, provisional ballots; in-person election day ballots; emergency ballots; damaged or destroyed ballots; duplicated ballots; or any other ballot that was used to cast a vote;b. All tabulator tapes for every voting machine used in Fulton County; including, but not limited to zero tapes, opening tapes, closing tapes and any other tabulator tape printed from a voting machine utilized during the 2020 General Election in Fulton County.
Old and busted: the 2020 election was the “most secure in American history” and Joe Biden clearly won. If you say otherwise we get to play the theme song from The Twilight Zone on loudspeaker and call you an “election denier.”
New and shiny: the 2020 election was rife with – what’s that nice word? – ah, yes, “irregularities,” which, when you turn on the lights, amounted to widespread, election-changing fraud.
“Fraud.” That seems to be the word of the season. It made its smashing debut in Minneapolis with all those childless childcare “learing centers” run by Somalis. And here we are in Act II with the potential exposure of election fraud in Georgia (next up: election fraud in Pennsylvania).
In the 2020 election, Donald Trump was ahead in Georgia by some 100,000 votes until, vesto-presto, there were mysterious leaks with no water and, by George, Biden pulled ahead by some 11,000 votes. We all remember the allegations of election workers raising the alarm over the low count for Biden or apparently doing their utmost to increase his vote share, as well as the accounts of curiously pristine mail-in ballots.
The FBI has a lot of sifting and sorting to accomplish in the weeks and months ahead. An ongoing court case claims that 150,000 mail-in ballots in Fulton County were suspicious (my cautious word for “fake”) because they weren’t creased and didn’t look like they were marked by hand. Officially, Sleepy Joe was the first Democrat to gain more than 70 percent of the vote in Fulton since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. The FBI analysis of mail-in ballots might show him to be as popular in Fulton as Castro was in Cuba or Stalin was in the Soviet Union.
There are also hard drives to be inspected and electronic voting machines to be vetted. Remember the allegations that voting machines made by Dominion Voting Systems had been hacked? Dominion (now “Liberty Vote”) collected some $787 million in damages from Fox News over the story. It will be interesting to see what sort of follow-up there is to those allegations.
Meanwhile, the Democrats have not been idle. New York Representative Dan Goldman has filed an amendment to prevent the Trump administration from investigating election records, ballot boxes, and voting machines across the country. Yes, really. Been there, done that. “What difference, at this point, does it make?” as Hillary Clinton famously put it, on the matter of Benghazi.
A lot has been made of the fact that Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, was on the scene in Fulton County as the FBI was glomming on to that huge cache of election records. Why would a senior national security official be there? Could it possibly be because at issue is not just possible election fraud but, as one commentator put it, a coordinated “deep-state operation directed from the top?”
Providence has a nice sense of irony. Had Trump been president from 2021 to 2024, he could not have accomplished a scintilla of what he has already managed just a year into his second term. The four years he spent as a victim of the Biden administration’s round-the-clock deployment of lawfare – the preposterous indictments, the naked efforts to bankrupt and incarcerate him – all were “teachable moments” he would have missed had he not been made the focus of unhinged Democratic ire. I suspect that, when the dust settles, it will be shown that Trump did, in fact, win the 2020 election. But it is a good thing for the country that he had to wait four years before he took office.
To those who are impatient with this renewed attention to the 2020 election, I advert to the ending of my column here from November 5, 2025.
Quoting the commentator Shipwreckedcrew, who posts on X and Substack under that username, I agreed that “the 47th President of the United States, now that he has the tools, has an obligation to examine the 2020 election with the Department of Justice if he concludes that the 46th President failed to do so out of the 46th President’s self-interest to not have his victory called into question.”
Trump, I noted, has so concluded. We are rapidly approaching the denouement of this drama.
Readers may also recall the scene from Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises in which one character asks another how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” was the answer. “Gradually, then suddenly.” I suspect that something similar is happening here.
A few days ago, the news from Fulton County was everywhere, but there was a certain nervousness or hesitation in the air. Hadn’t we already been here, done that? But then the floodgates started to open.
Why have Georgia election officials filed a court motion to take back the ballots seized by the FBI? No one wants to be called a “conspiracy theorist” or “election denier.” No one wants to be sued for libel, as was Rudy Giuliani. He raised questions about the election results in Georgia. He named names. That cost him $140-something million. I wonder whether that judgment will be revisited now?
Commenting on the tsunami of news crashing out from Georgia, the great Cleta Mitchell, who advised President Trump when he contested the Georgia election results, noted that on the morning of election day, November 4, 2020, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Trump led by 103K votes with only 94K ballots left. “Four days later,” Mitchell noted:
“[T]here were 300K more ballots, including 148K absentee ballots from Fulton County. That’s 25,535 more ballots than voters, more than double Biden’s margin. Over 133K ballot images were deleted. Zero of 148 Fulton County tabulators had the required tapes. Nearly 7K fictitious ballots remain certified, and no one investigated.
Then there is the news about Georgia Governor Brian Kemp. Grand jury testimony that was just unsealed revealed that Kemp told the chief of Georgia Bureau of Investigation not to investigation allegations of fraud in the 2020 election, Saying he was a “team player,” the official dropped the case.
The mask is being ripped off as I write. A Gestalt shift in The Narrative is underway. Wikipedia says that Cleta Mitchell “aided Donald Trump in his efforts to overturn the election results and pressure election officials to ‘find’ sufficient votes for him to win.” How long will it be before the site is forced to note instead that she aided the president in his efforts to get to the truth in Fulton County? What happened in Georgia is just one falling domino in the giant reversal that is taking place. A lot of reputedly “impossible” things are in the process of being revealed.
Doubtful. In hildabeast terms, what difference at this point does it make? Sadly there is no erasing the dark period of Joe and cawmala.😠
I think the value in this now is that it is an actual teachable moment...and if Fraud is proven at the industrial level in one single corrupt blue county, it blow Democrat arguments out for the water for not needing ID or in perosn voting.
Also...I think before Desantis cleaned up FL...I believe Broward County had this level of corruption working for the Democrat Machine as well.
Wake me up when someone is arrested.
Strong words. Now,lettuce see what floats up from the septic tank.
It WAS the denouement of the 2020 election. Now Fulton Co. is the denouement of the 2026 blowback as justice is unfolding.
If proven, every document that Biden signed, every order that he gave, could be negated!! The Rat party is done for the next twenty or thirty years!
Strong words. Now,lettuce see what floats up from the septic tank.
The purpose is not to “undo” the 2020 election, which there is no provision in law or the Constitution for corrective action.
The purpose is to highlight the solid reason why the SAVE Act is essential. Notice the Save act juicing up and this raid are both coordinated in timing.
Governor Rick Scott began the electoral cleanup in 2012.
Among his accomplishments: Voter roll purges of illegals, fewer early voting days, limiting voter registration at the polls, restrictions on ex-con voting.
I attribute the less than 1% 2018 DeSantis win over the street punk Gillum in large part to Scott’s efforts.
Without looking it up right now, I know in 2024 Florida was like +13 GOP or something insane like that. They actually rival Texas. I would go out and let say that if Gillam won in 2018, he would’ve probably taken steps in Florida become something similar to Virginia or Arizona or Colorado, and Florida would be on a good day of purple state.
We were really really dodged a bullet on that in Florida as far as I can tell, isn’t even competitive anymore
How does investigation of 2020 vote counting demonstrate the need for voter ID? They are 2 unrelated types of vote fraud.
Because it would contribute to the broader debate on whether or not our voting system is just fine or It’s broken beyond belief. If we could substantiate that fraud and corruption are rampant in the counting and tabulating side of it, it’s an easy leap of logic and easy argument to make that fraud and corruption is also likely rampant on the voting ID side as well.
Because the leftist talking point that voter fraud is rare, small, and never impacts any elections in a meaningful way, would go up and smoke
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In 2020 I lived and voted in a precinct probably 90% Democrat. Let’s say the final precinct count was 900 Kamala, 90 Trump, 10 3d party. The only way to “prove” that that count is incorrect is to find more than 100 voters who voted, and voted R or 3d party.
Or prove that less than 900 people voted D, which is far more difficult. Of the 1000 voters in that precinct probably over 50% (including me) have moved since Nov 2020. It is near impossible to find 100 of us on one side let alone 900 of us on the other side.
Of course the above is about “count”. It does not consider that a “Voter Harvester” cast votes on behalf of some of the registered names. Part of the “proof” is almost always the sworn affadavits of registered names who swore under penalty of perjury that the did not vote at all in the election and someone else must have voted in their name.
Regardless of what happens in the counting rooms (there are several) each vote is traceable back to a specific precinct.
A separate issue is proof of a vote harvester.
1) Legacy.com says that Sam Smith was dead in Oct and Nov 2020 and could not have cast a ballot.
2) A non-citizen swears on affadavit did not vote. In my vast experience with non-citizens in IL elections, they do not vote. Vote Harvesters vote on their behalf. They are registered to vote because they were automatically registered to vote when they obtained a drivers license. That occurs in both IL and GA big time, and probably in many states. Due to FEC/HAVA Help America Vote Act money the software in many states is not properly designed.
More often than not the non-citizen who has a drivers license is a LEGAL immigrant; not an illegal immigrant. The constant rhetoric against ILLEGALS voting increasingly leaves the impression with legal immigrants that they can vote, it is only the illegals who cannot vote.
3) Of course, a poll watcher/election judge who personally knows the vote harvester and sees him vote is also proof. As a poll watcher I arrived at the polling place at 5:45. The IL precinct captain was already inside and had cast 5 votes already, a couple on each machine. His justification was that he “just wanted to make sure that they were properly working”.
4) There may be other ways to “prove” vote fraud.
BOTTOM LINE: In 2026 it is very difficult to prove vote fraud in Nov 2026. Allegations can be made. Strange situations can be revealed. But “Proof?”. No! Just allegations.
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