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Fulton County officials acknowledged at a December 9 Georgia State Election Board hearing that they “do not dispute” that tabulation tapes for advanced (early) voting were not signed, and auditors and...
The Federalist headline — that “Fulton County: ‘We Don’t Dispute’ 315,000 Votes Lacking Poll Workers’ Signatures Were Counted In 2020” — conflates a state finding about missing tabulation-tape signatu...
Georgia law requires tabulating machines to print and have their returns certified and posted, and state election rules have long required poll tapes and zero tapes to be produced and witnessed — a pr...
Fulton County officials acknowledged at a December 9, 2025 hearing that roughly 315,000 early-vote tabulator tapes from the 2020 general election lacked the required poll-worker signatures yet were ne...
The Georgia State Election Board’s 2024 review concluded Fulton County’s 2020 presidential recount used improper procedures — chiefly duplicative ballot images and batch tally errors — but found the p...
Allegations tied to voter‑registration practices connected to the Project — an organization on whose board served — prompted a formal investigation by Georgia election officials and referrals to prose...
Georgia law and administrative rules require poll workers to print and sign tabulation (results and zero) tapes as part of the recordkeeping and certification process (Rule 183‑1‑12‑.12; Ga. Code §21‑...
Fulton County ballots are produced as precinct- and district-specific paper sample ballots (and a composite sample that represents all possible districts) that list federal, state and local contests a...
Zero tapes are the pre-voting printouts that show a scanner’s starting count and are meant to establish a verifiable “zero” baseline for each machine; their role is to help create chain-of-custody and...
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division filed a federal lawsuit seeking Fulton County’s 2020 election materials, alleging county officials failed to comply with a state subpoena and a subsequen...
The available public records and official investigations show only a tiny, documented number of potentially illegal ballots tied to ’s — a handful of cases referred for prosecution (four felons, four ...
Yes — state and federal actors have pursued the same 2020 election records in ways that line up, but the public record shows parallel and sequential actions rather than clear evidence of a coordinated...
Federal litigation and probes that followed the Georgia State Election Board’s 2024 findings about Fulton County have centered less on a new criminal case and more on compelled document production and...
Georgia courts have generally resisted post‑hoc attempts to unsettle certified results based solely on procedural chain‑of‑custody defects, blocking new rules that would change certification and hand‑...
The Georgia State Election Board (SEB) has historically used administrative, supervisory and referral remedies — not unilateral decertification — when counties violate procedural rules for tabulator t...
Available reporting shows no evidence in these sources that routine local election workers in Georgia were criminally charged or formally disciplined for chain‑of‑custody problems after the 2020 count...
A state investigation concluded used improper procedures during the recount, finding thousands of duplicate ballot images and managerial and documentation lapses, but it did not establish intentional ...
Limited, mostly isolated instances of and procedural misconduct in have been identified and referred for prosecution, but there is no authoritative public finding that widespread fraud altered certifi...
officials acknowledge procedural failures around unsigned tabulator tapes from the and say they have updated procedures and expanded training to prevent recurrences, including explicit instruction tha...
State Election Board referred —some tied to the —to the attorney general or local district attorneys for potential criminal prosecution, including , misplaced ballots and questionable canvasser activi...