Revisiting Georgia, November 2020
The left has tried to bury the controversy, but it’s reared up again.
The Fulton County Report of Investigation into the 2020 General Election outlines numerous allegations of election irregularities, including the unauthorized ordering of over one million absentee ballots, failure to perform mandatory signature verification, and discrepancies in ballot counts. It details how Fulton County’s election processes violated Georgia law, leading to potential fraud and manipulation of election results. The report raises serious concerns about the integrity of the election, citing missing records, unauthorized access to election systems, and the counting of ballots without proper verification.
It’s long; I haven’t read it. But that summary is disturbing. And here’s a tweet that claims to show a Grok summary of the document’s ten main points:
1. Systems reprogrammed before election, causing failures.
2. Untested systems used for advance voting.
3. Over 1M extra absentee ballots ordered without stubs.
4. Absentee signature verification neglected.
5. 35 tabulator memory cards unlawfully swapped.
6. Security seals cut, fraudulent returns printed.
7. 20,713 unaccounted ballots from advance tabulators.
8. Election records destroyed or not preserved.
9. Absentee ballot image files removed.
10. Qualified write-in votes discarded.
Are these allegations verified, and by whom? It’s hard to get the facts, and the MSM is concerned mainly with the FBI seizure of related documents.
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.
I don’t know whether anything will come of this. I do know that without election security that people can trust, there will always be significant doubt. And I also know that the legal system is inadequate to address allegations of election fraud after the fact, which gives extra motivation to those who would commit such fraud.
neo states, “I do know that without election security that people can trust, there will always be significant doubt.”
I do know that without election security that people can trust, there will be another civil war. Not because any sane person wants it but because the woke, culturally Marxist left will force it upon us.
Trust? Maybe if there had been some serious arrests and convictions. But investigation after investigation, on and on forever? You’re a nobody if you’re not being investigated. Seems the only purpose of investigations is to provide something to fill pundit space. I no longer even trust “elections” where my side wins. Box 4 will open soon.
I’m still waiting to see interviews with the plumbers. You know, the ones that worked on the water leak that shut down the counting “temporarily”.
Unless, and until, there are very public arrests followed by well publicized convictions based on incontrovertible evidence – in Georgia and elsewhere – coupled with substantial changes to the registration and voting processes, my calendar tells me we are diurnally closer to that civil war everyone is talking about.
It isn’t just the Right who will benefit from an undeniably accurate registration and voting process; without it the Left will always have a “stolen election” rallying point around which they can rabble-rouse.
Not that the Left will not always rabble-rouse about something – that’s their default setting because they have nothing else – but when the electoral process is sufficiently bulletproof accurate and valid and the entire process conducted in such a manner as to be absolutely, completely transparent regarding accuracy and validity it will not be possible to move beyond that issue to others of greater relevance.
That the complete electoral process, from nomination to induction, has become so valuable is an obvious fault of allowing government – at all levels – to increase in size, cost and impact to the point where control of it is increasingly important. First, fix the voting, then very substantially reduce the power of those elected by it.
A simple addition problem made complicated by a company system to allow vote fraud.
A program to put these controversies to bed would be quite simple to design and not all that complicated to implement. Georgia just has to look what other states have been doing over the last century.
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When Trump’s enemies, and by that for this case I mean people I know who voted against him, can deny when looking it square in the face is puzzling,
Are they lying to me and they know there was cheating (or whatever else the issue is)? Do they know better but force themselves to “believe” on some other mental level?
Are they incapable of putting two and two together, of seeing what’s right in front of them if the logical conclusion threatens their views?
Do they prefer the cheating because they know republicans aren’t going to do it and chasing the dems’ cheating is a losing game?
Couple of elections back, a woman tracked down some registered voters in an are of East Lansing, MI. Some were middle-aged women supposedly living at a fraternity house which had been closed due to Covid. Some were supposedly in an apartment complex which had been torn down years ago. Some were in homes along a street with no homes. My dem friends’ reactions were generally a shrug,
IMO, they can’t claim to not believe it. Nobody’s that stupid. Even on purpose.
Aw Richard, but Trump is Hitler doncha’ know…
QED (forever and ever…)
@Richard Aubrey:Are they lying to me and they know there was cheating (or whatever else the issue is)? Do they know better but force themselves to “believe” on some other mental level?
Are they incapable of putting two and two together, of seeing what’s right in front of them if the logical conclusion threatens their views?
Do they prefer the cheating because they know republicans aren’t going to do it and chasing the dems’ cheating is a losing game?
It’s all of the above. All they care about is they got the outcome they wanted.
Just before the 2024 election a few of my lefty coworkers announced in a meeting they were planning to vote multiple ballots using their multiple registrations. Room got quiet, a combination of cognitive dissonance for some who were convinced such things don’t happen (but if they do are only done by bad guys) and “don’t say the quiet part loud” from others.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my life it’s that if there is the chance of fraud or theft in a system there WILL be fraud or theft.
was it ring lardner’s who said don’t get in the way of a belief, that your salary depends on,
the lack of chain of custody, and other evidence of a legitimate balloting was rather astounding but all the proper people certified it, (and not a few commenters here, bought it wholesale)
the fact that persons were deplatformed bankrupted some times jailed like tina peters or threatened with same like sidney powell, was the proof of the fraud
why didn’t this happen, because officials like kemp had entered into consent decrees had bought insecure balloting machinery,