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| Georgia oversight panel ruminates on 2020 election hiccups as 2024 showdowns loom |
| 2024-05-09 |
| [Georgia Recorder] The Georgia Election Board voted Tuesday to reprimand Fulton County and appoint an independent monitor for the 2024 election for violating state law while conducting a recount of the 2020 presidential election. In a 2-1 vote on the panel that oversees how counties conduct elections, members agreed to admonish Fulton County and order a monitor for this year’s campaigns. That allows the county to avoid paying a fine or having the attorney general investigate the double-counting of 3,075 ballots and other allegations of irregularities during the 2020 presidential recount. Georgia election officials determined mistakes in 2020 by county election workers would not have changed the outcome. Georgia Secretary of State investigators said they are unable to determine how many of the invalid ballots were included in the results used to certify the 2020 election. Democrat Joe Biden narrowly defeated GOP nominee Donald Trump by nearly 12,000 votes. State officials reported that there were 3,075 duplicate ballot images, but they were unable to determine how many of the ones cast were tabulated in the recount. The court case revolves around apparent discrepancies between the initial recount totals in November 2020 and the corrected totals released a day later by Fulton County. According to Fulton’s initial results, Trump received 137,240 votes out of 524,659, while Biden received 381,144. Following a recount requested by Trump’s lawyers, the final results led to the former president gaining seven additional votes and Biden losing 932. In January 2021, Fulton officials acknowledged failures to properly back up data to servers during the recount. A Fulton election official told the state election officials that the discrepancy likely resulted from the mishandling of ballot batches and that changes have since been made to separate ballots once they’re scanned. Election board member Ed Lindsey Jr. offered a motion Tuesday to reprimand Fulton and appoint an independent monitor who could be in place prior to the November general election. If the state election and Fulton officials fail to agree on who to hire as the election monitor, he said, then he would recommend in July that the board ask the state attorney general to take the case. "My purpose here is not to let it ride but to move this matter forward so that we can have some assurance regarding the 2024 election," said Lindsey, a Republican and former lawmaker who was appointed to the state election board by the Georgia House of Representatives in January 2022. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 #2: But they will "know" beyond the shadow of a doubt what happened in Fulton County. |
| Posted by: Tom 2024-05-09 14:44 |
| #3 It we get cheated the same way twice - shame on us. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-05-09 12:18 |
| #2 Everyone except the people who watch CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, etc., etc. Oh, don't forget the people who read WaPo or the New York Times. They'll never know what happened in Fulton County. |
| Posted by: Uleating Theger5049 2024-05-09 11:56 |
| #1 As I have said previously, Trump did NOT lose Georgia. Everyone knows what happened in Fulton County. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-05-09 07:45 |