Who remembers 2020 election night? I recall that it was unsettled for a few days until Senator Harris called VP Biden and said, “We did it, Joe.”

We know now that Georgia was a mess. This is the latest:

Earlier this month, Fulton County admitted that approximately 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election were illegally certified but were nonetheless still included in the final results of that election.

The admission came during a Dec. 9 hearing before the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) stemming from a challenge filed by David Cross, a local election integrity activist. Cross filed a challenge with the SEB in March 2022. Cross alleged that Fulton County violated Georgia statute in the handling of advanced voting ahead of the November 2020 election, counting hundreds of thousands of votes even though polling workers failed to sign off on the vote tabulation “tapes” critical to the certification process.

And Fulton County admitted to it.

Ann Brumbaugh, attorney for the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, told the SEB in the hearing that while she has “not seen the tapes” herself, the county does “not dispute that the tapes were not signed.” Brumbaugh continued, “It was a violation of the rule. We, since 2020, again, we have new leadership and a new building and a new board and a new standard operating procedures. And since then the training has been enhanced. … But … we don’t dispute the allegation from the 2020 election.”

Georgia’s Secretary of State Office investigated the alleged failure to sign tabluation tapes and “substantiated” the findings that Fulton County “violated Official Election Record Document Processes when it was discovered that thirty-six (36) out of thirty-seven (37) Advanced Voting Precincts in Fulton County, Georgia failed to sign the Tabulation Tapes as required [by statute],” according to a 2024 investigation summary. In addition to probing the unsigned tabulation tapes, the investigation also found that officials at 32 polling sites failed to verify their zero tapes.

There are always going to be some mistakes when millions vote. However, were these “clerical errors” or “catastrophic breaks in chain of custody and certification?”

So, the elections stand, but 315,000 votes may be a problem? What if these 315,000 votes incorrectly gave VP Biden the state’s electoral votes and put two Democrats in the US Senate?

What can we do about it? Probably nothing, and President Trump is back in the White House anyway.

The biggest problem may be the status of Democrat Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. They very likely got into office in 2020 because of these questionable votes. Senator Ossoff is running in 2026, and I hope Georgia voters remind him of the disaster of 2020.

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