Five years after the fact, Georgia election officials have admitted that 315,000 votes in the 2020 presidential election lacked the necessary signature from poll workers and should not have been counted. President Donald Trump was unjustly indicted for alleging just such a violation of election security.
A bombshell report out last week in The Federalist from journalist Brianna Lyman provides all the details on what should be considered one of the biggest election-related scandals in American history. As she relays, election officials in Fulton County, Georgia, the most populous in the state, admitted to failing “to sign off on the vote tabulation ‘tapes’ critical to the certification process.”
The revelation came thanks to the tireless efforts of David Cross, a local election integrity activist who filed a lawsuit against the Georgia State Election Board in 2022.
In the 2020 election, Georgia state law required two basic steps to ensure ballots were counted fairly and accurately. First, at the beginning of each day of voting, poll workers must print and sign a “zero tape,” which shows that every voting machine is starting at zero votes. Second, poll workers must print three “closing tapes” at the end of each day and either sign them or provide a reason for refusal.
But according to Cross’s investigation, an astonishing 36 out of 37 early voting locations in Fulton County failed to sign the closing tapes. Thirty-two polling sites also failed to sign their zero tapes.
As Lyman explains:
“If there is no record of whether the tabulator was set at zero at the start of polling, there is no way of telling whether ballots from a previous election (or ballots from a test run) were left on the memory card and might later be counted. Notably, this happened in Montana, where officials discovered more votes than were cast and believe the votes were leftover sample data that had not been cleared.”
In some cases, the tapes also showed “additional irregularities,” such as polling locations open as late as 2 a.m. and “duplicated scanner serial numbers, where memory devices were removed from one scanner and printed on an alternate scanner.”
In total, at least 315,000 early votes in Fulton County did not have poll worker signatures attached to them and were thus uncertified. “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 told Lyman. “And [Georgia Secretary of State] 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.”
This jaw-dropping failure on the part of election officials should raise serious concerns about what other such “irregularities” have occurred – and perhaps still are occurring – in Georgia and elsewhere. But it is also a vindication of President Donald Trump and every other “election conspiracy theorist” who has alleged precisely this sort of misconduct from 2020 onward.
When Trump was indicted in Georgia in 2023 (along with 18 other co-defendants), the charges centered on his supposed efforts to “pressure” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to investigate precisely these sorts of irregularities and violations of the law. At the time, media and Democrats hailed Raffensperger as a hero for insisting that everything was on the up-and-up. Now, it looks like Trump and the “conspiracy theorists” were right – again.
It’s worth remembering the hysteria with which the liberal establishment defended the election procedures in Georgia and Fulton County that we now know to be riddled with errors and inconsistencies. For years, anyone who remotely questioned how early voting was conducted in Georgia was castigated as a “threat to democracy.” Democrat prosecutors were literally trying to throw a former (and, as it turns out, future) president in prison for questioning the legitimacy of the results.
Meanwhile, the co-defendants in the case had to come up with hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. Many of them were financially ruined. Where is their restitution? Where is their apology from the liberal media hounds that destroyed their reputations and their lives?
Critics will counter that the state performed a recount where every ballot was counted by hand, ensuring the results were accurate. But if we can’t even trust Georgia poll workers and election officials to properly sign closing and zero tapes, how can we trust them to conduct an accurate recount? Moreover, the fact remains that the tapes were not signed. According to the letter of the law in Georgia, they should not have been counted.
Joe Biden was declared the victor in Georgia by 11,779 votes. It’s not a certainty, but it seems a strong likelihood that the outcome would have been changed had those votes been correctly declared invalid. Perhaps they were all legitimate votes cast by lawful voters. But there is now no denying that they were handled improperly – election officials openly admitted as much.
Finally getting to the bottom of what happened in Georgia five years ago is about more than just one election. It’s about demanding that elected officials enforce the law as written and respect the public’s right to seek accountability when that standard is not met. Demanding accessible and secure elections is not a threat to democracy; it is the very mechanism that protects democracy from corruption, complacency, and abuse.
Shane Harris is the Editor in Chief of AMAC Newsline. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
Who will be going to prison for this violation? Don’t hold your breath for any prosecution to happen as things continue to be muddied by the opposition. MSM will continue to send out deception and confusion to mislead the populace.
“Finally getting to the bottom”, that’s all we hear! When are we going to see and hear accountability?
Thank you for this article. It is very hard to believe that Joe Biden won the Georgia election or the national election without debates and press appearances. Our government can no longer be trusted. Many of our citizens can no longer be trusted. If one cannot be honest and do the right thing, the country is in serious trouble. How many other elections have been altered by dishonest officials in our nation’s history? It is coming to the point that people will realize that voting has no value since the Democrats will cheat to win at any cost. To stop this from occurring in the future, Democrats and other officials need to be fired and put into jail. However, this will not happen because the Democrats have a get out of jail card for free. Even some Republicans, like Liz Chaney, have the same protection from justice. The United States is coming to an end because of the vast dishonesty of our politicians.
So looking forward to the day Jesus Christ, King of kings and Lord of all, Creator of the world, will focus His blazing eyes that sees all onto those who refuse to tell the truth. They will not be able to deny their lies when they stand before Him. All will be revealed and their destiny will be complete, their eternal damnation will begin and never end. Come Lord Jesus.
Great. Good start.
Now do Pennsylvania.
so many crimes committed by so many but those are still in power sabotaging what ever they touch but had this been s republican or a Trump supporter those involved would have been arrested speedy trial and jailed for decades and stripped of everything they own but if the democrats commit crimes fraud etc nothing is done and if anyone tries to even bring up laws democrats are breaking they right away pull out the race card and threaten to go after them the next time they steal an election , meanwhile everyone else’s pockets are drained with excessive taxes high prices high cost of living and all caused by corruption !
This information is great. Many of us knew it was all election and voter frauds blatantly going on at the time.
But, until the perpetrators are arrested, indicted, convicted and placed into a prison facility….this includes going after George Soros and his son, this will unfortunately just continue on and on ad nauseum each election cycle.
Nothing will positively change enough until the heat gets turned up on those who are responsible for this.
So they made a mess of the election in Georgia, who has been held accountable?
Well, everyone with a working brain already knew this but it’s nice that it has been exposed. It wasn’t just Georgia which had “irregularities.” PA, WI, AZ, etc. were just as crooked!
Someone or some group in GA should face prosecution for this serious crime. This, in effect created much damage to our country in many ways during the four illegemite years of the crooked Biden presidency.
Wasn’t it Georgia that claimed a water leak, got rid of all the republican poll watchers, then proceeded to pull suitcases of votes out from under tables, counting and recounting the same fake ballots, all of which was captured on video?
Was anyone ever prosecuted or even questioned about this?
it seems to me that it is not only the voting process in some states that is fraudulent, but also the legal system.
Does anyone have any information about this issue?
IF/WHEN the investigations/results PROVE the DECEPTION; Can we AT LEAST expect anything ‘done’ during the BIDEN REIGN will be REVOKED? Any & all ‘APPOINTED JUDGES’ to be REMOVED FROM POSITIONS AND ANY JUDGEMENTS MADE WHILE THEY WERE SEATED – BE REMOVED (thus negated/reversed) to the previous status? THAT would be a GREAT THING FOR THE HONEST AMERICAN CITIZENS! ALSO; CUT OFF any possible PENSIONS and/or other monetary gains without recourse?!
By now anyone with half a brain knows that the Democrats constantly lie. Anything they label as a conspiracy theory is true. I don’t know how anyone can claim to identify with that group of pathological liars. Every decision they have ever made is a bad one everything they touch is a disaster, they spend every day running around with fire extinguishers trying to put out fires and blame somebody else. The Democrat party is the party of losers and victims. They should be required to have a giant capital L tattooed on their foreheads so everybody knows that they are Democrats. If you see or hear anything that says Democrats say… Stop listening right there or reading what follows is nothing but a pack of lies
There is a woman in prison because she was suspicious and wanted to double check the ballots. She was a supervisor. She was blocked from counting and prosecuted by the state. Pres. Trump has given her a pardon, but it only qualifies for federal charges. Will the state release her now? She should get a lawyer willing to sue the pants off everyone involved with her prosecution.
What this also shows the democrats lie and the MSM enforced those lies. Fake news as president Trump calls it. Every indictment they brought against president Trump and others was fake, a hoax like Jan 6 like the impeachments and the FBI raid on Mar A Largo. That was done because one little federal employee working as an archivist saw boxes taken out of the White House. Not knowing what was in it. But the democrats in power started the lie they were classified papers. They were not. President Trump had a right to take those papers home and were safely secured in a locked safe at Mar A Largo. Biden had his papers in an open garage where many people had access to, plus in a office where anyone had access to. Including Chinese officials. They ruined Mayor Giuliani with this fake voting results in 2020. And many others. General Flynn suffered reputation loss with fake accusations. President Trump was indicted on fake charges and convicted because of the lies the democrats threw out there and MSM propagandized to the max. Not investigate. No they would never. They hitched their wagon to the globalists. President Trump knew what was coming. He knew fraud was rampant in the 2020 election but the voters had been brainwashed for the 4 years he was in office that he was evil and accused him of doing what they were doing themselves. President Trump has saved this country twice. From the globalists and the communists who want to destroy this country at every turn. We said when ole Joe was sleeping in the White House that the 2020 election was fraudulent. And that in time the truth would come out. Here it is, proof. Only will the MSM air this? I don’t think so. And they will word it in such a way that Trump is still the conspiracy theorist. The democrats are evil. They are destroying religion as we see everywhere in this country this Christmas season. The hatred for those on the right by the left is so large. My feeling is it will never be mended. The division the democrats created has become a canyon so large nothing can bridge this.
It is hard to imagine where we could be right now as a nation, if the ridiculous Harris/Walz ticket had prevailed. It is so scary! But I want to see much more from Bondi. MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more.
Look at the people who were ruined by these lies. Rudy Guiliano comes to mind immediately. Raffensberger will never get my vote as I think he was complicit with all of this. As a Georgia citizen, I was disgusted with the “2 AM disruption” in Atlanta when all of the sudden, Trump lost. And of course, it is alwys Atlanta where problems occur.
Whoever was in charge needs to go to be prosecuted in federal court and sent to Fort Leavenworth prison. They knew this was the case and let those votes be counted anyway. Oh, and let me guess-all for Sleepy Joe, right?
NY has the same problem (illegals voting)
The Biden margin of “victory” in the 2020 election in Georgia was less than 13,000 votes. Given the 315,000 illegal votes, as stated above, Trump actually won Georgia by more than 300,000 votes. But anyone with half a brain already knew that.
Still, Fani Willis had the audacity to charge Trump with a crime, for pointing out the truth! This whole mess is a travesty of monumental proportions. And, as Colonel Jeff Cooper once stated, the proper response to a travesty is rage. Mr. Raffensperger are you listening?
RESTITUTION, to those co-defendants, many of which were lawyers, just doing jobs and questioning the obvious problems, we all recall the midnight work, the plumbing issue in Ga. I say Jail is too good for these officials who participated in this malfunction, and they need to be sued to restore these co-defendants. I am so tired of feeding and sheltering crooks. Where it counts is their money.
Of course Ga was not the only state, imo, there was Pa. Mi. and I think Az.
Fines and/or prison time for falsifying election results would be nice to see. But I ain’t holding my breath.
And that’s just ONE state.
I have no reason to doubt that TRUMP won 2020!!!
i cannot unsee the boxes of ballots from under the desks after they sent everyone home i say again dems have a history of cheating
I have always believed there was fraud in the 2020 election, everything from this to ballot box stuffing.
If everyone recalls, at the close of the polls on election night 2020 trump was very comfortably ahead in all seven swing states! We considered the election over with an easy Trump win! Then, we woke up the following morning to what many stunned Americans considered an impossibility! This fraud was amazingly obvious right from the very beginning!
Georgia US Senate seats should be vacated and a new election held.
Fulton County is a Black majority county in Georgia, so what do you expect from this minority group that is known for crime, corruption, etc. Just look at Minnesota right now.
In Georgia’s defense… they never said that they didn’t cheat… just that there was no proof..
I have never heard further results for Arizona, in 2020 where i am positive the cheat, was in. Biden won Arizona … I don’t think he got out of his basement and even visited the state … as local contests were similarly skewed. In what world do go to the polls, or even vote via a mail in ballot, and only vote for one office? 2024 got the Presidential vote correct, and yet there was a split in allegiance? Republican President, Democrat Senator? Of course, why wouldn’t you want to unanimously pick a democrat for senate, to work against your republican choice for President. Arizona has had corrupt voting for at least two presidential cycles.
Forget “the failure should raise serious concerns”. I want to see the guilty folks go to jail!
The lack of operational discipline on important matters like this….not just this state but every state…is more-than-astonishing….it’s criminally-shameful and people should be held accountable. And the “system” needs to be sevrely shored-up…why it takes 5 years to find this out is even more criminally-shameful
They weren’t signed because the poll workers knew they were fraudulent and didn’t want to be held accountable for certifying them so they just pushed them through illegally.
Nobody involved is going to get punished at all. You can count on it. They’re politicians, every one of them. If you or I pulled any of the crap they do, we’d be hung out to dry in a minute. This business of never having to pay for what you’ve done is one of the reasons for the formation of the vigilantism in the old west. While I’m certainly not promoting the recreation of groups involved in vigilantism, it could very well happen when the public reaches its breaking point.
So, I only have one question. When will those responsible be indicted? When?
Those involved election officials and full chain of command down to the poll workers directly involved are to never hold a public office again in their lifetime – at any level. They were involved in interfering and influencing the outcome of a federal election. Doesn’t require a court hearing and demonstrates some level of understanding by leadership that these people did wrong and under similar circumstances will too likely do the biased wrong thing again.
Election integrity will never improve until we have a nation wide process that is not “gerrymandered” to suit those wishing to spoil the process. Voting process for Federal elections is one area that needs to rise above the state, set by a bipartisan group of voting security experts, then put into place nation wide.
States can argue over their own elections but the Federal elections impact all of us. One state cheating impacts every other state. Just as for interstate commerce the Federal elections should be taken to the next level for the sake of all states.
Until prosecution and sentencing is done, it is as it always is. Honor amongst thieves!
Georgia is a corrupt, fraudulent State through and through! Biden never won the Presidency! That Election was rigged! Election Integrity is paramount if all voices are to be heard at the Ballot Box! Democrats are the ones who cry the loudest when you try to verify Voters by ID! This is proof Democrats have something to hide! President Trump needs to move in and F O R C E all States to comply without exception! ID verification is used in States already so why not Voting! Federal Government needs to FORCE it into existence, period!
each improperly charged defendant should be able to sue – AND WIN – restitution for all their costs, plus punitive damages for the stress – from FULTON COUNTY.
If all Biden had to do was hide in his basement rather than campaigning, “Because the election was taken care of……” it should have been obvious what was going on. It’s nice to know I am not a “conspiracy theorist”, however, you can call me what you will….I also knew the election was rigged.
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the only way we’re going to have honest elections is to have armed conservatives at the polls that have orders to terminate the cheaters & their lawyers on the spot.
This is not a surprise to anyone. Democrats cheat. They have always cheated, and they will always cheat. The real surprise will be if anyone is ever held accountable for their cheating. Or for their corrupt use of our money, for that matter.
Call me when someone goest to jail.
No surprise…Trump was right again. 100%
So, if this proves out across the country and I don’t doubt that it will, and it is proved that Joe Biden’s presidency was rigged, making it therefore illegitimate, wouldn’t that make all of his actions illegitimate as well resulting in the cancellation of all the presidential orders issued by him as null and void?
I really hope Rudy G. gets his money back..