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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Georgia State Election Board (SEB) can investigate county election administration, adopt and enforce rules, hold proceedings on petitions and waivers, and refer suspected statutory violations to p...