In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden “won” Georgia by less than 12,000 votes. By midnight on Election Night, Donald Trump seemed to have an insurmountable lead, but the ballot count in Atlanta was suddenly suspended due to a convenient water pipe leak. Absentee ballots were placed in waiting, and chaos ensued. Eventually enough Biden ballots were found, counted, and double-counted to put him barely over the top. Recounts showed discrepancies in multiple counties, including examples found of ballots being tabulated twice. Finally, after more than a month, Georgia’s “Republican” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger validated the results, with an implicit endorsement of all the machinations that were required to overturn Trump’s apparent election night victory.
Since then, pro-Trump Republicans who care about ballot integrity have gained a controlling majority of the Georgia State Election Board. They have implemented a new rule for the 2024 election requiring that before a precinct certifies its election results, the poll workers must conduct a hand count of ballots cast so as to verify that the number of actual paper ballots equals the number of ballots tabulated. To be clear, the poll workers are not tabulating votes, they are simply counting the number of ballots so as to prevent ballots from being scanned and tabulated more than once.
Democrats and the media are howling in protest, of course. For Kamala to win Georgia, they know it will take a solid dose of ballot fraud. Comically, however, they are pretending that their concern is that this will delay the reporting of election results. “Republican” Brad Raffensperger, who is in charge of elections, also opposes this new rule.
The rule violates Georgia law for numerous reasons," the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Party of Georgia wrote in their complaint [The new rule does not violate Georgia law and is within the statutory authority of the Election Board – Buck], adding that it could introduce "uncertainty" into the effort to tally votes and delay certification of the state's election results.
This is especially funny, because the regime media is constantly putting out pieces advising us not to expect a winner on election night. Even more specifically, we are being advised not to believe our lying eyes if Trump has a big lead on election night. What they are hinting at is that election night will reveal how many more Kamala ballots must be tabulated after election night. Here is just one recent example from the NY Times:
“Harris or Trump? Once Again, Election Results Could Take Awhile”
For the second straight presidential election, it is becoming increasingly likely that there will be no clear and immediate winner on election night and that early returns could give a false impression of who will ultimately prevail.
But waiting an hour or so to prevent the double-counting of ballots in Georgia is an unacceptable delay to these same people.
Just how common is the double counting of ballots in Georgia. It’s hard to know, because ballot fraud that is not caught is never documented. But there were indisputable examples of ballots being scanned more than once in the 2020 election, for which Fulton County election workers were reprimanded.
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.
This is where Democrats and the media tend to fall back on the term “not widespread” to refer to any ballot fraud that is uncovered, but if at least 3,000 ballots were scanned multiple times, and Biden won the state by less than 12,000 votes, I am not OK with this level of ballot fraud being tolerated, just because it is “not widespread.” And I assume there was much, much more ballot fraud that was not caught.
In fact, there were another 20,713 ballots cast for which there was no paper trail at all. And – big surprise - this was also in Fulton County.
“Missing 2020 poll tallies in Georgia don’t prove 20,713 votes never existed” [AP – 12/20/2023]
This story was brought to light by some conspiracy-theorist, election-deniers who were troubled that there were missing paper poll tapes from good ol’ Fulton County. The poll tapes are the only paper trail for these voting machines if the paper ballots are not hand counted. The Associated Press decided to do some “fact checking” on this claim, so they contacted – you guessed it - Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office.
CLAIM: A public records request revealed that 20,713 votes that were included in the 2020 election night tally in Fulton County, Georgia, do not exist.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. A complaint submitted to the Georgia State Election Board in July 2022 includes an email from Fulton County stating that ballot tabulator results, or poll tapes, printed on Election Day “do not exist” for 10 machines.
Oh. That seems noteworthy.
But poll tapes are just one part of the paper trail that documents the vote, which is also recorded on memory cards and in official statements released by Georgia counties.
In other words, there is NOT a paper trail, just digital results, along with the “official statements” of the unquestionably honest Georgia county officials. (By the way, should I even be surprised that a journalist writing about “paper trails” doesn’t know what the term means?)
The more I read about Brad Raffensperger, the more I realize this man couldn’t be trusted to competently administer the petty cash drawer at a small church, much less run a statewide election, and his cavalier indifference toward ballot integrity is an actual threat to democracy. Listen to these nuggets of wisdom from Raffensperger’s spokesman Mike Hassinger regarding the missing paper trail for these 20,000 votes:
• “Poll tapes are not supposed to go missing, but precincts are managed by human beings who sometimes make mistakes.”
• “If you lose your receipt, it doesn’t mean you didn’t get groceries. “ • “I would find it a little suspicious if every poll tape were exactly where it was supposed to be. That would be too good to be true.”That fraud-friendly attitude from Raffensperger’s office is exactly why the new ballot-counting control measure is so desperately needed. By the way, even this AP “fact check” notes that there were double-counted ballots in 2020.
A 2023 state review of Fulton County’s 2020 audit found errors and inconsistencies in the vote count, including some double counting of ballots. But the errors weren’t enough to alter the election results, the AP has reported.
Unlike Democrats, the media, and Brad Raffensperger, I am not OK with Democrat ballot fraud so long as it isn’t “enough to alter election results.” One fraudulent ballot is enough to steal an election.
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