Election fraud proven in fulton county

Digital ballot images made public under Georgia’s new voting law show nearly 200 ballots — including one for West — that election officials initially scanned two times last fall before a recount. There’s no indication any vote for president was counted more than once in official results.

The discovery of identical ballots provides evidence to back up allegations of problems in the presidential election, but on a relatively small scale that had no bearing on the final certified count.  A group of voters seeking to prove the election was fraudulent say double-counting is just the beginning of what they hope to find.

Supporters of Republican Donald Trump have been searching for signs of fraud since his 12,000-vote loss to Democrat Joe Biden in Georgia. But two recounts confirmed Biden’s victory, and the courts have rejected lawsuits that sought to overturn the results.

Double-counted ballots were discovered by voters suing Fulton in an effort to persuade a judge to allow them to conduct an in-depth inspection of 147,000 absentee ballots. The judge ruled against the plaintiffs last month, but the case survived with new claims filed against the county’s five election board members.

“If we’re finding this in Fulton County, we’re probably going to find it throughout the state. The question is, why did it happen?” said David Cross, an investment manager working with the plaintiffs. “The simple fact that it happened and we found it here means that it probably occurred elsewhere.”

Election observers and organizations say it’s unlikely that double-counting occurred often or in large numbers.

The ballots counted twice would have given Biden 31 extra votes. After a recount, official results reflected that Trump gained a total of 121 absentee votes in Fulton. Biden won the county with 73% of 524,000 votes cast.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution also verified the duplicate ballots in ballot images obtained under the Georgia Open Records Act and posted online.

The overall number of ballots counted in Georgia generally matched the number of voters who checked in at polling places or returned absentee ballots.   Manual and machine recounts found similar totals for each candidate.

“It’s Fulton failing to follow proper election protocols again,” said Carter Jones, an independent monitor of Fulton’s elections who found sloppy practices but no fraud. “Fulton is so poor at managing the actual process that if they had actually tried to rig the election, they would have bungled it and we would have found out.”

Jones said it’s possible that an election worker lost track of which absentee ballots had already been scanned in the initial count and then ran them through the machine again.

Jones, hired by the State Election Board to observe Fulton’s elections after last year’s primary, recommended that the county change absentee ballot processing during the recount and runoff, boxing up absentee ballots for storage as soon as they were scanned. The county followed his advice, reducing the chance that ballots would be counted twice.

The most obvious example of duplicates in the initial count occurred in a batch of 99 ballots first scanned the morning of Oct. 28, then scanned again about an hour later, with the second batch tallied in exact reverse order from the first. Those batches had 58 votes for Biden, 39 for Trump, one for Libertarian Jo Jorgensen and one for West.

Part or all of another batch of 98 ballots appeared to be scanned a second time within minutes on election night. Biden received 55 votes in the first of those batches and 56 in the second batch. Many of the ballots appeared to be identical.

“It’s something that should never happen,” said Mark Lindeman, acting co-director for Verified Voting, an election integrity organization focused on voting technology. “I’m not trying to make excuses for a blunder, but under really difficult circumstances, people do things that are inexplicable, and that seems to be the case here.”

Lindeman said he couldn’t recall another example of ballots being scanned twice anywhere in the country. He suggested stronger ballot tracking practices, with ballots divided into batches with unique identifying labels and cover sheets. Some jurisdictions imprint serial numbers on absentee ballots as they’re scanned for use during audits.

Fulton election officials declined to comment while the court case seeking a ballot inspection is pending.

County Commission Chairman Robb Pitts said allegations of widespread fraud are based on the “big lie” that the presidential election was illegitimate.

“Allegations of intentional wrongdoing or fraud remain untrue and baseless,” Pitts said. “The big lie is a dangerous conspiracy theory falsely claiming that tens of thousands of votes in Fulton County — and millions nationwide — were fraudulent, not that there’s the possibility of small-scale human error.”

The secretary of state’s office has been investigating Fulton’s elections management and could eventually bring a case for consideration before the State Election Board, which has the power to issue fines or refer allegations to the attorney general’s office.

Georgia’s voting law, Senate Bill 202, also gives the state board authority to replace county election boards and install an appointed administrator.

Other Georgia counties made larger vote-counting errors than Fulton’s during the initial tally.

Election workers in three counties discovered a total of more than 3,300 new votes stored on memory cards that hadn’t been loaded into election computers. A different issue in Floyd County led to 2,600 ballots going unscanned. Those ballots were included in the recount and in Georgia’s official certified results.

What’s next

Election skeptics plan to continue scrutinizing ballot images outside of court, looking for irregularities in Fulton County and other jurisdictions where a majority of voters supported Joe Biden. They’ll also continue pressing their case in court in an attempt to obtain higher-resolution images and an in-person inspection.

Attorneys for Fulton have said the case is meritless and will ask for its dismissal.

Democrats have stated that there is no way any inaccuracies in the election happened.

Yet it is open knowledge Fulton county establishment double counted Biden votes.

Jonathan Meade West, Sr., of Hayes, was charged with a felony for attempting to cast two ballots in the 2020 general election. West first voted absentee at the Gloucester County Voter Register's office. He then returned four days later and tried to cast a second ballot. He was stopped from casting a second ballot when the election worker checked his information using a back-up to the VERIS (Virginia Election Registration Information System) system since it was not working that day. He was convicted of an amended misdemeanor charge of obtaining services under false pretense after attempting to vote twice. West, a self-described "unabashed conservative," was sentenced to a suspended sentence of 12 months, fined $500, and ordered to pay $96 in court costs.

CRIPPLE CREEK • Jan Wilson of Woodland Park was found guilty in Teller County Combined Court Wednesday of voting twice in the April primary election.

In the State of Colorado vs. Janis M. Cummer, Teller County Clerk & Recorder Krystal Brown cited Wilson with the misdemeanor offense in May after discovering that she had submitted two ballots. Wilson was arraigned in July and the case went to court Feb. 10.

Wilson, 74, also known by her married name of Janis Cummer, was cited with the misdemeanor offense in May after Teller County Clerk & Recorder Krystal Brown discovered she had submitted two ballots. She pleaded not guilty in July, records show.

During a one-day bench trial Feb. 10 in Cripple Creek, Teller County Court Judge Theresa Kilgore found Wilson guilty of voting twice and fined her $500 plus court costs.

In Colorado’s all-mail ballot election, Wilson received a first ballot but then changed her party affiliation and received a second ballot. “She voted twice, and turned them both in,” Brown said, in a report to the Teller County Board of Commissioners at its Feb. 11 meeting. “The woman felt she had done nothing wrong, that it was a mistake to turn in two ballots.”

Brown caught the double vote the night of the election. “The Duo machine captures the signatures,” Brown said, adding that she halted the vote count to correct the error. “It was time-consuming for the staff.”

In her report, Brown highlighted the divisive nature of the 2020 election. “I think it’s important to talk about this in this place and time,” she said. “We don’t take this lightly, just so everyone knows. Last year the vote was extremely important so we want to make sure people vote only once.”

After the meeting, Brown said she felt the law should be stronger when it comes to handing out fines, or other repercussions such as voter fraud.

Teller County uses the Dominion Voting Systems, which have been targeted by some supporters of former President Donald Trump in his claims of voter fraud around the nation.

Since the election of Joe Biden to the presidency in November, Trump’s supporters, including Republican politicians, have questioned the results, claiming Dominion Voting Systems were fraudulent.

“We used Dominion machines in 2016 when Trump won,” Brown said, implying that there were no questions about the results at the time. “It’s sad.”

Since the November election, Dominion has sued Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, seeking $1.3 billion in damages due to his false claims of voter fraud.

In the case in Teller County, Wilson is a Woodland Park citizen who serves a member of the Downtown Development Authority and Keep Woodland Park Beautiful. She is well-known for her volunteer work around the city.

“The case is ridiculous,” Wilson told The Courier. “You can’t vote two ballots because the second one doesn’t count. It was just a mistake.”

Wilson acknowledges that she did change her party affiliation. “I did it for one reason, so I could support Erik (Stone) and Dan (Williams) for county commissioner,” she said, referring to the Republican candidates for Teller County commissioner, who each won a seat on the board. “It was a mistake to submit two ballots, and I didn’t even give it a thought.”

Wilson added, “If they want to make a big deal out of it, OK,” she said of her conviction.

Wilson was not represented by an attorney and said she does not plan to appeal the judgement.

“Do you think I’m going to pay an attorney $5,000 for a mistake?” she said.

PORTER TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WCMH) — A Porter Township trustee has admitted to voting twice — once as himself and once as his deceased father — in last November’s election.

According to a plea agreement, Edward D. Snodgrass is scheduled to enter a guilty plea next month to a charge of Falsification, for which he will spend three days in county jail and pay a $500 fine and court costs.

Snodgrass, a Republican, admitted to signing his father’s name, H. Edward Snodgrass, to his absentee ballot and sending it in, then later voting himself.

Snodgrass told NBC News that he made an error while trying to take care of his dying father, who he said requested the ballot, saying his father was suffering from advanced Parkinson’s disease and a broken arm at the time the ballot arrived. He added he had already been “signing for him.”

“It was there with a pile of other paperwork,” Snodgrass told NBC News. “I was sleep-deprived and not thinking clearly. But I’m not going to run away from it.”

He added he was trying to “execute a dying man’s wishes.”

Snodgrass was initially charged with Illegal Voting.

As of Tuesday, June 22, Snodgrass’ name remains listed on the Porter Township website as a township trustee.

@Wylted

They got away with it cause of Mail In Ballots

and RINOS stationed across the nation.

Won’t be happening in 2024

“The newspaper reviewed the available digital images independently and concluded that hundreds of ballots were improperly duplicated. So what does this look like exactly? Well here’s what it looks like, at a press conference yesterday…

Digital ballot images made public under Georgia’s new voting law show nearly 200 ballots — including one for West — that election officials initially scanned two times last fall before a recount. There’s no indication any vote for president was counted more than once in official results. Link

Oromagi

Election frayd never happened. It is impossible for elections to be wrong

Also oromagi

Here are several examples of election fraud. 

They got away with it cause of Mail In Ballots and RINOS stationed across the nation.

They got away with it

@oromagi

Oromagi

Election frayd never happened. It is impossible for elections to be wrong

Which of course cant be proved because all the evidence has already been destroyed

People's votes don't count anyway in a legitimate system. Laws are written and passed by lobbyists, not voters.

-->@oromagi

Yes yes yes "the law" Since when did the rule of law mean anything? The law says you cant enter the country illegally , yet there are over 20 million people who entered this country illegally living here. The law is as worthless as two tits on a hog. The law is what ever asshole who can ignore , manipulate or not enforce the law says it is. 

Why are politicians blocking access to requested documents and info why are politicians refusing to even allow an audit?

Since when did wasting millions of tax dollars ever become an issue? 

The whole election integrity narrative is simply controlled opposition from both parties to give the public an alternative theory as to why their vote doesn't matter to the elite oligarchs that run DC.