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Dec 21, 2025
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What did the Georgia Secretary of State's 2024 investigation into Fulton County actually conclude, and where can the full report be read?

The Georgia Secretary of State’s 2024 inquiry into Fulton County concluded there was no evidence of widespread fraud in the specific “ballot suitcase” and poll-worker allegations it examined, but it i...

Dec 20, 2025
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What specific documents and records did the Georgia Secretary of State and State Election Board examine regarding Fulton’s 2020 tabulation tapes?

The Georgia Secretary of State’s office and the State Election Board (SEB) focused their review of Fulton County’s 2020 tabulation tapes on both the physical tape receipts from tabulators and a broad ...

Nov 15, 2025
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What specific ballot chain-of-custody incidents were investigated in Georgia in 2020 and 2021?

Investigations in Georgia after the 2020 election focused on several discrete chain-of-custody and ballot-handling incidents, most prominently a Fulton County “ballot suitcase” allegation, misplaced m...

Dec 20, 2025

What exactly is printed on Georgia tabulator 'zero tapes' and how are they supposed to be used in certification?

Zero tapes are paper printouts produced by electronic ballot tabulators before voting begins that display the machine’s internal vote registers as zero and serve as a verifiable record that no votes a...

Dec 20, 2025

What are the legal remedies and precedents in Georgia for certified results where procedural chain‑of‑custody violations are later found?

When a certified Georgia election later shows procedural chain‑of‑custody lapses, the available remedies are primarily administrative objection, civil litigation seeking injunctive relief or decertifi...

Dec 20, 2025

What did Georgia’s official audits and recounts find about Fulton County’s 2020 totals?

Georgia’s official post‑2020 tallies — the initial machine tabulation, a hand‑count risk‑limiting audit (RLA), and a machine recount — produced highly similar totals for Fulton County and for the stat...

Nov 20, 2025

What were the findings of the Georgia Secretary of State and Fulton County investigations into ballot handling?

Investigations by Georgia’s Secretary of State and by Fulton County into ballot handling have repeatedly found no evidence of widespread ballot-stuffing or illegal coordinated ballot harvesting; a Sta...

Dec 21, 2025

What specific procedural errors were documented in Fulton County’s 2020 election audits and how were they addressed?

The 2020 Fulton County election audits were found to contain multiple procedural mistakes — chiefly unsigned and unverified tabulation “zero” tapes during early voting and human-data-entry errors that...

Jan 14, 2026

What legal standards govern the preservation and production of ballots, tabulation tapes and audit materials in Georgia post‑election?

Georgia law sets specific statutory duties for the safekeeping, storage, scanning and limited disclosure of absentee ballots and related materials after an election, most notably within O.C.G.A. §21-2...

Dec 21, 2025

What audits, recounts, or court rulings followed challenges to Fulton County's 2020 results and what did they find?

Three formal tallies — the initial machine tabulation, a hand-conducted risk-limiting audit, and a machine recount — all produced similar results that affirmed Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in Fulton Count...

Dec 21, 2025

What did the DOJ’s complaint in the Fulton County records lawsuit specifically request and cite as legal authority?

The Department of Justice’s civil complaint against Fulton County seeks physical and digital ballot materials from the 2020 general election — specifically “all used and void ballots, stubs of all bal...