On Monday, a Fulton County election official admitted that “a few forms were missing” and that “some procedural paperwork may have been misplaced.” This was in reference to “chain of custody” documents in connection with absentee ballots that were placed in “drop boxes.” As it turns out according to a Georgia Star News report, 385 transfer forms out of approximately 1585 forms are missing. This seems to be more than a few.
The Star News notes:
This is the first time that any election official at either the state or county level from a key battleground state has made an admission of significant error in election procedures for the November 3, 2020 election.
The admission of missing chain of custody documents by a Fulton County official is important for several reasons that cut to the very core of public confidence in the outcome of the 2020 presidential election:
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President Biden was certified as the winner of Georgia’s 16 Electoral College votes in the 2020 election by the narrow margin of less than 12,000 votes over former President Donald Trump out of a total of 5 million votes cast statewide.
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The total number of absentee ballots whose chain of custody was purportedly documented in these 385 missing Fulton County absentee ballot transfer forms was 18,901, more than 6,000 votes greater than the less than 12,000 vote margin of Biden’s certified victory in the state.
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has taken no action in 156 of Georgia’s 159 counties to secure copies of any absentee ballot drop box transfer forms and review them for accuracy and consistency with reported absentee ballot vote counts. In April his office announced investigations into three small counties that “failed to do their absentee ballot transfer forms” in the November 2020 election in compliance with rules and regulations.
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More than seven months after the November 3 election, 28 Georgia counties have failed to respond at all to The Star News Open Records Requests to produce absentee ballot drop box transfer forms. To date, The Star Newshas obtained absentee ballot drop box forms from 59 counties that provide chain of custody documentation for 266,492 absentee ballots deposited in drop boxes during the November 3, 2020 election, which means that no chain of custody documentation has been produced for about 333,000 absentee ballots deposited in drop boxes out of an estimated 600,000 absentee ballots deposited in drop boxes during that election.
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As The Star News reported on Sunday, “These absentee ballots are at the center of a lawsuit filed by Garland Favorito and eight other Georgia residents, who have sued Fulton County to produce these ballots for a forensic audit. Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero ruled in May that this audit could proceed, but allowed the plaintiffs to review only the digital images of these 145,000 absentee ballots. . . An estimated 145,000 absentee ballots – between 75,000 and 78,000 of which were originally deposited in drop boxes and between 67,000 and 70,000 of which were sent via the United States Postal Service – were transferred from the centralized counting facility at the State Farm Arena in downtown Atlanta to the EPC [the Election Preparation Center warehouse located at 1365 English St. NW, Atlanta] at some point after the counting of votes for the November 3 election was completed. . . Fulton County subsequently filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, and Judge Amero put the audit on hold. Judge Amero has scheduled a hearing later this month to consider Fulton County’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit and stop the audit.”
This has nothing to do with photocopied ballots that have been reported in Georgia. That is also part of this audit. Fulton County officials finessed the audit when they provided digital images that were not of sufficient resolution. All of this points to a conclusion that these officials will continue to fight tooth and nail to prevent the audit from going forward.
Why? I believe that anyone with an objective look at what has been going on realizes that most likely massive fraud is being covered up. If this is proven, what happens next?
I think the picture of dominoes falling is apt here.
Proof of fraud in Arizona and Georgia will inevitably lead to more pressure for other states to perform full audits. Keep in mind that incontrovertible evidence must show the fraud. Once enough states are shown to have certified fraudulent results, then basic principles of common law come into play.
Fraud vitiates anything that flows from the fraud. This is uncharted waters when it comes to a national election. Courts have overturned and thrown out elections in our history. But it is uncommon, and certainly not at the national level that I am aware of. It would require litigation at SCOTUS. I have no confidence that SCOTUS would hear the case, let alone rule on it according to the law. I hope I am wrong.