When Fulton County, Ga., poll manager Suzi Voyles sorted through a large stack of mail-in ballots last November, she noticed an alarmingly odd pattern of uniformity in the markings for Joseph R. Biden. One after another, the absentee votes contained perfectly filled-in ovals for Biden — except that each of the darkened bubbles featured an identical white void inside them in the shape of a tiny crescent, indicating they’d been marked with toner ink instead of a pen or pencil.
Brian Amero: The judge, a donor to Democrats, ordered ballots unsealed for inspection after poll workers swore under oath Biden votes looked fake.
Adding to suspicions, she noticed that all of the ballots were printed on different stock paper than the others she handled as part of a statewide hand recount of the razor-thin Nov. 3 presidential election. And none was folded or creased, as she typically observed in mail-in ballots that had been removed from envelopes.
In short, the Biden votes looked like they’d been duplicated by a copying machine.
“All of them were strangely pristine," said Voyles, who said she’d never seen anything like it in her 20 years monitoring elections in Fulton County, which includes much of Atlanta.
She wasn’t alone. At least three other poll workers observed the same thing in stacks of absentee ballots for Biden processed by the county, and they have joined Voyles in swearing under penalty of perjury that they looked fake.
Now election watchdogs have used their affidavits to help convince a state judge to unseal all of the 147,000 mail-in ballots counted in Fulton and allow a closer inspection of the suspicious Biden ballots for evidence of counterfeiting. They argue that potentially tens of thousands may have been manufactured in a race that Biden won by just 12,000 votes thanks to a late surge of mail-in ballots counted after election monitors were shooed from State Farm Arena in Atlanta.
The Star News’ email to Fulton County can be read here:
Dear Fulton County,
We are in receipt of a thumb drive which we picked up in person from your office on May 3, 2021 that contains scans of documents responsive to our Open Records Request Reference No: R002457-040821 for chain of custody ballot transfer forms for absentee ballots deposited in drop boxes in Fulton County for the November 3 election.
We have reviewed those documents, and it appears that you provided documentation for about 59,000 ballots. The accompanying spreadsheet you provided – a file named “Copy of Absentee Ballot Drop Box – Daily Count – November 3 2020.xlsx” – said there were about 78,000 ballots cast in the November 3, 2020 election.
Please:
(1) Provide us with the “missing” documentation on these 19,000 ballots
(2) Explain the discrepancy
“We never should have had any drop boxes. We wouldn’t have had chain-of-custody problems and the other problems with absentee ballots if they hadn’t put in those drop boxes,” Voyles added. "It was negligence.”
And then some.
After several Fulton County, Ga., poll monitors testified last year that boxes of mail-in ballots for Joe Biden looked liked they’d been run through a photocopy machine, state investigators quietly broke the seal on one suspicious box and inspected the hundreds of votes it contained for signs of fraud, RealClearInvestigations has learned exclusively.
State officials also neglected to inform the judge hearing the lawsuit that they were conducting such an inspection, even though the judge had issued a protective order over the ballots in January.
Frances Watson, chief investigator for the secretary of state’s office, confirmed in a statement to RCI that she sent investigators to Fulton County earlier this year to inspect the batches of sealed ballots. Poll monitors involved in last November’s hand recount had described the mail-in ballots in sworn affidavits as devoid of creases and folds and featuring identically bubbled-in marks for Biden. But the state said it could not find any ballots matching that description.
but
“If the secretary of state’s office did that, they tampered with the ballots and violated Georgia state law,” which restricts the handling of ballots to authorized elections officials involved in the tabulation and care of the ballots, Favorito said. He also noted that Judge Amero had placed the ballots under a protective order in January. “They would have had to ask for a court order to unseal and inspect those ballots and they never did that.”
Raffensperger’s office did not respond to questions about why it did not inform the court about its probe, although it acknowledged that this is the first time its inspection of the ballots – which began in early January – has been publicly disclosed. Judge Amero did not respond to requests for comment.
Yeah, so I think that’s enough to stop the whole “nothing to see here” nonsense.
Pennsylvania State Senator, Chairman of the PA Intergovernmental Operations Committee, Doug Mastriano has announced the intent of the legislative committee to conduct a forensic audit of three counties. Tioga and York and Philadelphia.
A full forensic investigation is critically necessary for our Commonwealth for the sake of transparency and accountability. There is nothing to fear if there is nothing to hide. Those who have concerns about the integrity of the 2020 and 2021 election will have those concerns investigated and hopefully addressed. Those who think that there was zero voter fraud, no irregularities, and that the elections were conducted perfectly will have the chance to be vindicated.
Seems reasonable, although Im sure an army of lawyers will be arguing it is entirely unreasonable to let the unwashed masses check receipts for their own elections.
Two days after the audit is proposed Biden is on his way to PA.
How about that, think he will be helping to set up an audit so he can rub the noses of the conspiracy theorist Trump supporters and reminded them all of his record breaking, 11 million more than Obama ever got, 81 million victory, I sure would if I believed that was what happened.
Interesting. But who is this, where did these ballots supposedly come from, and what are those batch numbers? Also how did this guy come up on these 2 ballots, out of 500,000 cast?
Georgia had two recounts, 1 a rescan, and 1 a full hand recount. The audit teams that did the counting had to agree on the vote on the ballot, otherwise it went to a vote review panel made up of a democrat, a republican, and a designee of the election director. The teams were overseen by by monitors from both parties. The net gain in the hand recount for Trump in Fulton was +345 - but both candidates gained votes in the hand count btw, as the auditors were able to agree on votes that the scanners couldn’t process, so the evidence supports that the scans undercounted, rather than were scanned multiple times.
The team’s analysis revealed that 923 of 1539 mail-in ballot batch files contained votes incorrectly reported in Fulton’s official November 3rd 2020 results. These inaccuracies are due to discrepancies in votes for Donald Trump, Joe Biden and total votes cast compared to their reported audit totals for respective batches. Thus, the error reporting rate in Fulton’s hand count audit is a whopping 60%.
One type of error discovered involved duplicate results reporting for batches of ballots. The team found at least 36 batches of mail-in ballots with 4,255 total extra votes were redundantly added into Fulton Co. audit results for the November election. These illicit votes include 3,390 extra votes for Joe Biden, 865 extra votes for Donald Trump and 43 extra votes for Jo Jorgenson.
But it is not simply a case of errors. The VoterGA team found 7 falsified audit tally sheets containing fabricated vote totals for their respective batches. For example, a batch containing 59 actual ballot images for Joe Biden, 42 for Donald Trump and 0 for Jo Jorgenson was reported as 100 for Biden and 0 for Trump. The seven batches of ballot images with 554 votes for Joe Biden, 140 votes for Donald Trump and 11 votes for Jo Jorgenson had tally sheets in the audit falsified to show 850 votes for Biden, 0 votes for Trump and 0 votes for Jorgenson
Tucker who remined quiet for 9 months after the election and perhaps wisely so as they showed Lou Dobbs the door for reporting on alleged irregularities seems like he might begin reporting on irregularities after all.
There has been a total black out on all MSM regarding voter fraud, if it was going to start being reported it was always going to start on Fox. So, interesting, a hiccup maybe or more to follow, we will see.
I was replying to @Poundsand in giving the context of what seems to be quite recent news, as far as I can tell. I don’t recall it being reported before, but may have missed it.
OK, there were errors. There always are - we all know this, right? - that’s why there are provisions for recounts. Georgia conducted 2 - 1 with a rescan, and 1 with a hand recount. So the takeaway from this is… what, exactly, besides there were errors? Is there enough to have made a difference? Error or fraud?
Edit: btw, this appears to finally be something resembling issues with facts to support it, unlike all the kraken nonsense (maybe… I haven’t looked at the actual files yet - they’re big ass downloads, but raffenaberger referenced 200 (according to the other article, iirc) duplicates, so I lean towards believing at least that). Now, let’s see if they can put it together into a cohesive story to show it’s an issue.
No obviously, but sometimes crumbs are enough to try to create illusion. North Korea, for example, only needs some paper, paint and glue to make dingy, run down buildings into an epic city skyline.
Falsified tally sheets where “59 actual ballot images for Joe Biden, 42 for Donald Trump and 0 for Jo Jorgenson was reported as 100 for Biden and 0 for Trump” are not errors, if that happened.
But overall they are small numbers. I do believe elections are by the people and therefore the people have a right to verify the results.
I am open to having a discussion on the possibilities, another poster had opined they would be open to such a discussion and I asked if they found this trend in bellwether counties strange.
They replied they did not, of course it is a little strange, had they allowed I would have gone on to say, something being strange doesn’t mean it can’t be explained. FiveThirtyEight do just that, See here Needless to say they found the phenomena curious enough to write a piece on it.
So I didn’t proceed with that discussion, maybe they are not a curious person, but if we want to look at the election curiosity is a requirement, at this stage.
If it happened, and these guys understand the tally sheet (witness the Maricopa county response to the cyber ninja report slip “issues”)
you think it’s of course strange because… why, exactly? Did you consider demographics? Voter registrations? Just a plain ol’ statistical anomaly? There’s over 3000 counties in the u.s., that .5% of them leaned 1 way in a whopping 9 elections, then the other in the 10th doesn’t really seem all that newsworthy. How many voted wrong in the last 10 elections? 20? Does it matter? ;D
Or enough people were talking about it and it made them feel the need. And of course they’re writing about 19 that voted for the winner every time, vs the 17 that in your article that didn’t even vote for the winner every time. wow, that means, uh… that there’s a lot of counties i think. ;D maybe it means something else. or not. hard to say looking at such a small subset that already has the results you want to talk about…
edit: and if the bellweathers voted with the winners so much, it should be noted that since bush 1, they’ve had not a great record of voting with the person who got the most popular votes!
My point is a reasonable person will say something looks weird but a reasonable person will not bang their head on the wall about it if a reasonable explanation is offered. Which it seems FiveThirtyEight did.
If we are so rigid in our thinking that when genuinely curious phenomena occur, then we can’t have a decent conversation about what is going on because everything that goes against a predetermined outcome is already decided and everything that might be curious is rejected.
