2020 US Election: Georgia vote admitted to be illegal, Trump was right to question it. By Brianna Lyman at The Federalist.
Earlier this month, Fulton County [in Georgia] admitted that approximately 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election were illegally certified but were nonetheless still included in the final results of that election.
Biden won Georgia by about 11,000 votes.
Citizen challenger:
The admission came during a Dec. 9 hearing before the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) stemming from a challenge filed by David Cross, a local election integrity activist. …
Cross stated that he obtained 77 megabytes of election records from Fulton County through an open records request that cost $15,800. According to Cross, these included 134 tabulator tapes, representing 315,000 votes. Each signature block on these tapes was blank, Cross said. …
And Fulton County admitted to it. Ann Brumbaugh, attorney for the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, told the SEB in the hearing that while she has “not seen the tapes” herself, the county does “not dispute that the tapes were not signed.” Brumbaugh continued, “It was a violation of the rule. We, since 2020, again, we have new leadership and a new building and a new board and a new standard operating procedures. And since then the training has been enhanced. … But … we don’t dispute the allegation from the 2020 election.” …
Georgia election rules require that election officials have each ballot scanner print three closing tapes at the end of each voting day. Poll workers must sign these tapes or include a documented reason for refusal. …
“These signed tapes are the sole legal certification that the reported totals are authentic,” Cross told the SEB at the Dec. 9 hearing. “Fulton County produced zero signed tabulator tapes in early voting.” …
“Because no tape was ever legally certified, Fulton County had no lawful authority to certify its advanced voting results to the secretary of state. Yet it did,” Cross said.
“And Secretary Raffensperger accepted and folded those uncertified numbers into Georgia’s official total without questioning them. This is not partisan. This is statutory. This is the law. When the law demands three signatures on tabulator tapes and the county fails to follow the rules, those 315,000 votes are, by definition, uncertified.” …
More:
Cross also highlighted additional irregularities, such as polling locations being open at “impossibly late hours, like 2:09 a.m.” Cross also said that he found “duplicated scanner serial numbers, where the memory devices were removed from one scanner and printed on an alternate scanner.”
“These are not clerical errors. They are catastrophic breaks in chain of custody and certification,” Cross said.
How surprising! All the best people assured us it was the fairest election ever.
Not only did Democrats (and their fellow travelers in the Republican establishment) prevent public discussion of the results of the 2020 race — completely pillorying a fundamental right under the First Amendment — but they went a hundred steps further and began prosecuting — persecuting, with not only steep civil but criminal penalties — anyone who would so dare raise the question in public conversation.
Therefore, the story of the last four years was not just one of electoral incompetence of the highest magnitude, but a complete stampeding of the First Amendment and Due Process of Law.
The President and his legal team got on the phone with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger et al. [in 2020] to inquire about exactly what had been uncovered and admitted to, five years later, by Fulton County. …
That is a perfectly reasonable inquiry in any election, but especially one in which the results were so close, and many unprecedented changes were made — rules were openly flouted … — under the pretext of “covid” and (in more radical corners) “racial justice” (the devastating results of critical race theory put into practice).
It was because of all those procedural changes (of dubious constitutional legitimacy) that Joe Biden, who was an invalid while in office, somehow garnered more popular votes — despite being the least popular president since the advent of the Gallup Poll — in American history.
Stampeded by the establishment (never again!):
But because Georgia, at the time, was feeling massive public pressure to kowtow to Democratic-supported interest groups, including Big Tech companies and Deep State actors, who wanted to expeditiously hand the proverbial baton over to Biden, at which point the thousand year Woke Reich might commence for good, expurgating MAGA from history for all time (that indeed, without exaggeration, was the plan), Brian Kemp, Brad Raffensperger, and crew, in an ersatz and slipshod manner, wound up sweeping the systematic fraud under the rug, democratic accountability be damned. …
Anyone who would so dare raise gentle inquiries about what happened — honest election workers like Tina Peters, demonstrators like those who objected peacefully at the Capitol on January 6th, even the President of the United States — were slapped with the full fury of the law.
And that fury came not only in the form of just civil penalties, which itself would have been an historically anomalous, radically disproportionate response to the so-called “crime” — but criminal prosecutions!
In the state of Georgia alone, Trump and his 18 “co-conspirators” were charged, incredulously, under a Racketeering statute –- RICO, the same instrument used to combat organized crime –- to have their reputations smeared as dangerous criminals, simply for doing the bold and courageous thing of standing by the president by probing whether 2020 was or was not conducted fairly –- as history would prove it certainly was not.
Justice delayed is justice denied.