Election Integrity Group Says Ballot Image Analysis in Fulton County Shows ‘Provable Fraud’ in Audit

July 17, 2021

Are we approaching the day when former President Donald Trump will be vindicated for his claims that the election that robbed him of a second term was stolen?

That has yet to be seen. But he sure thinks the time is nearing, and — if an explosive report by a group that sued for access to dozens of batches of mail-in ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, is correct — Trump may at the very least be proven right about how messy the general election was in the Peach State’s largest county.

According to the group Voters Organized for Trusted Election Results in Georgia (VoterGA), one of the entities listed on a lawsuit challenging the results of the 2020 election in Fulton County, a hand audit from last year which has oft been pointed to as having “proven” now-President Joe Biden’s victory in the state, was “riddled with massive errors and provable fraud.”

The ballots the analysts reportedly examined were made public after the petitioners in the lawsuit won a court order on April 13 and VoterGA successfully petitioned the Georgia General Assembly to make images of the ballots public under an Open Records Request which began on March 25, according to the group’s news release.

The group reported its analysts found that “923 of 1539 mail-in ballot batch files contained votes incorrectly reported in Fulton’s official November 3rd 2020 results.”

“These inaccuracies are due to discrepancies in votes for Donald Trump, Joe Biden and total votes cast compared to their reported audit totals for respective batches. Thus, the error reporting rate in Fulton’s hand count audit is a whopping 60%,” the group stated in the news release (emphasis theirs).

The team said that out of the 36 batches of mail-in ballots, 4,255 extra votes were added to Fulton’s November audit results, including 3,390 extra for Biden, 865 for Trump, and 43 for Libertarian Party candidate Jo Jorgensen.

“But it is not simply a case of errors,” the release continued. “The VoterGA team found 7 falsified audit tally sheets containing fabricated vote totals for their respective batches. For example, a batch containing 60 ballot images for Joe Biden, 50 for Donald Trump was reported as 100 for Biden and 0 for Trump.”

“The 7 batches of ballot images with 554 votes for Joe Biden, 140 votes for Donald Trump and 11 votes for Jo [Jorgensen] had tally sheets in the audit falsified to show 850 votes for Biden, 0 votes for Trump and 0 votes for [Jorgensen],” the group stated of its reported findings.

VoterGA accused Fulton County of neglecting to include 100,000 tally sheets, over 50,000 of which were from mail-in ballots in the published results of the full hand recount of the Nov. 3, 2020, election, which was conducted by the Georgia Secretary of State’s office. These tally sheets were not produced by county officials until late February, VoterGA said.

In what has now become a familiar accusation against Fulton County officials, the group also said that dropbox transfer forms were conspicuously missing until produced following an Open Records Request, and that “missing forms are still needed to provide chain of custody proof for about 5,000 ballots.”

“The VoterGA data team also found over 200 Fulton County mail-in ballot images containing votes not included in the hand count audit results for the November election,” the group also noted.

Its reported findings have been added to the lawsuit against Fulton County as “additional counts of how the Equal Protection and Due Process Constitutional rights of Georgia voters were violated.”

VoterGA’s reporting has not been independently verified by The Western Journal. However, if true, this data comes amid a circular firing squad in Georgia politics over the Fulton County recount and sundry allegations of fishiness.

On Thursday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger called for Fulton County election officials to be fired, following a report from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that alleged 200 Fulton County ballots were double scanned before last year’s recount.

Meanwhile, Republican state Sen. Burt Jones called for Raffensperger to be investigated and to be made to testify before the Senate Government Oversight Committee.

Raffensperger and others still adamantly deny that anything that happened in Fulton County that would have influenced the outcome of the general election.

One thing is clear: Voters of all political persuasions would have good reason to doubt the integrity of Fulton County elections. Carter Jones, an independent monitor of the county’s elections, told The Journal-Constitution that its election officials are “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.”

This may certainly be the case, but also doesn’t discount that perhaps this notorious county’s elections are such a dumpster fire that if there was indeed deliberate fraud, how could anyone even tell? Citing sheer incompetence is a rather flimsy argument to dismiss the potential for fraud or outcome-influencing irregularities outright.

The news of VoterGA’s reported findings was celebrated by Trump, who declared the Fulton County recount to be “total fraud” and announced that the group’s analysis confirmed claims he has been making since last year.

“The news coming out of Georgia is beyond incredible. The hand recount in Fulton County was a total fraud! They stuffed the ballot box — and got caught. We will lose our Country if this is allowed to stand,” he wrote in a statement.

“Are we now in a Third World country? What else will they find once the full Forensic Audit takes place?” he asked.

Indeed, what else will they find if a forensic audit takes place? Is it possible that with this much smoke, there was really no fire?

Perhaps Biden won Fulton County, the whole state of Georgia and all his 306 Electoral College votes fair and square.

But at this point, at least in Fulton County, how are we even to know that this was the case? Are you comfortable writing the whole thing off as incompetence, or would you like to find out once and for all who really won in Fulton County — and the rest of the country, for that matter?

The American people deserve the transparent truth, whatever it may be.

Court Rules Against University that Targeted Christian Group

July 17, 2021

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled against the University of Iowa calling its decision to deregister a Christian student group as one of the most obvious examples of discrimination that it has ever seen.

In a ruling issued on Friday, the court unanimously sided with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a national faith-based group that organizes local chapters at colleges and universities around the country, putting on Bible studies and worship gatherings.

In 2018, the University of Iowa decided to deregister InterVarsity — along with other student religious groups on campus — over its commonsense practice of requiring leaders to agree with its statement of faith.

In targeting religious groups, the university cited its Human Rights Policy, which mandates that student groups not differentiate on the basis of race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and a range of other categories — religion included.

Besides the school’s obvious trampling on students’ freedom of religion, lawyers for the Christian group argued that the school also enforced its policy discriminatorily. The 8th Circuit Court agreed.

In the ruling, the court told school administrators it was “hard-pressed to find a clearer example of viewpoint discrimination” than the actions they took against the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.

“What the University did here was clearly unconstitutional,” the court stated. “It targeted religious groups for differential treatment under the Human Rights Policy — while carving out exemptions and ignoring other violative groups with missions [the University] presumably supported. The University and individual defendants turned a blind eye to decades of First Amendment jurisprudence or they proceeded full speed ahead knowing they were violating the law.”

The court also warned that school officials who “make calculated choices about enacting or enforcing [such] unconstitutional policies” are not entitled to qualified immunity but rather should be held personally responsible for their actions.

Lawyers representing InterVarsity touted the ruling as a victory for students’ First Amendment rights.

“Schools are supposed to be a place of free inquiry and open thought, but the school officials here punished opinions they didn’t like and promoted ones they did—all while using taxpayer dollars to do it,” said Daniel Blomberg, senior counsel at Becket, in a statement. “The good news is that they’ve been held accountable, and school officials nationwide are on notice. We are optimistic that in the future, colleges will pursue policies of accommodation, not discrimination, when it comes to religious exercise on campus.”

Friday’s victory followed two earlier victories for Becket and religious student group clients fighting discrimination at Iowa universities. Those cases included InterVarsity v. Wayne State and BLinC v. University of Iowa.

Texas House Speaker Demands Dems Return Home, Requests They Refuse Pay For Time In D.C.

July 17, 2021

Nearly 11,000 Deaths After COVID Vaccines Reported to CDC, as FDA Adds New Warning to J&J Vaccine

July 17, 2021

VAERS data released today by the CDC showed a total of 463,457 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 10,991 deaths and 48,385 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and July 9, 2021.

Data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) included 463,457 reports of injuries and deaths, across all age groups, following COVID vaccines — an increase of more than 25,000 compared with the previous week.

The data comes directly from reports submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S.

Every Friday, VAERS makes public all vaccine injury reports received as of a specified date, usually about a week prior to the release date. Reports submitted to VAERS require further investigation before a causal relationship can be confirmed.

Data released today show that between Dec. 14, 2020 and July 9, 2021, a total of 463,457 total adverse events were reported to VAERS, including 10,991 deaths— an increase of 1,943 over the previous week. There were 48,385 serious injuries reported during the same time period — up 7,370 compared with the previous week.

In the U.S., 333 million COVID vaccine doses had been administered as of July 9. This includes: 135 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine, 184 million doses of Pfizer and 13 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID vaccine.

Of the 10,991 deaths reported as of July 9, 22% occurred within 48 hours of vaccination, 15% occurred within 24 hours and 37% occurred in people who became ill within 48 hours of being vaccinated.

This week’s data for 12- to 17-year-olds show:

14,003 total adverse events, including 866 rated as serious and 14 reported deaths. Two of the nine deaths were suicides.
The most recent reported death includes a 13-year-old boy (VAERS I.D. 1431289) with a previous history of COVID who suffered cardiac arrest and died 17 days after vaccination with Pfizer.

Other reports include two 13-year-old boys (VAERS I.D. 1406840 and 1429457) who died two days after receiving a Pfizer vaccine, three 15-year-olds (VAERS I.D. 1187918, 1382906 and 1242573), three 16-year-olds (VAERS I.D. 1420630, 1225942 and 1386841) and three 17-year-olds (VAERS I.D. 1199455, 1388042 and 1420762).

2,040 reports of anaphylaxis among 12- to 17-year-olds with 99% of cases.
attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine, 1.1% to Moderna and 0.2% (or four cases) to J&J.
377 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation) with 373attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.
65 reports of blood clotting disorders, with 64 attributed to Pfizer and 1 attributed to Moderna.

This week’s total VAERS data, from Dec. 14, 2020 to July 9, 2021, for all age groups combined show:

23% of deaths were related to cardiac disorders.
50% of those who died were male, 45% were female and the remaining death reports did not include gender of the deceased.
The average age of death was 75.
As of July 9, 2,857 pregnant women reported adverse events related to COVID vaccines, including 1072 reports of miscarriage or premature birth.
Of the 5,049 cases of Bell’s Palsy reported, 63% were attributed to Pfizer vaccinations, 35% to Moderna vaccine and 5% to J&J.
445 reports of Guillain-Barré Syndrome, with 51% of cases attributed to Pfizer, 37% to Moderna and 17% to J&J.
127,421 reports of anaphylaxis with 48% of cases attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine, 45% to Moderna and 7% to J&J.
9,471 reports of blood clotting disorders. Of those, 4,998 reports were attributed to Pfizer, 2,845 reports to Moderna and 1,582 reports to J&J.
1,991 cases of myocarditis and pericarditis with 1,336 cases attributed to Pfizer, 599 cases to Moderna and 52 cases to J&J’s COVID vaccine.

Experts warn of ‘huge risk’ as Moderna launches COVID vaccine trials for pregnant women

Moderna will study its COVID vaccine in pregnant women, according to a posting on ClinicalTrials.gov. The observational study, expected to begin July 22, will enroll about 1,000 females over age 18 who will be studied over a 21-month period.

Women who received a Moderna vaccine during the 28 days prior to their last menstrual period, or at any time during pregnancy, are eligible.

The brief summary of the trial states the main goal is “to evaluate the outcomes of pregnancy in females exposed to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273) during pregnancy.”

Currently, the CDC says pregnant women can get a COVID vaccine. But the agency also acknowledges there is limited data available about the safety of COVID vaccines for people who are pregnant.

“Pregnant women are taking what may be a huge risk with the COVID vaccine,” said Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., author of “Your Baby, Your Way.” Margulis said in an email to The Defender, there is no evidence COVID vaccines are safe, but ample evidence suggesting it is dangerous to expose pregnant women and unborn babies to drugs and interventions that can disrupt immunity.

Lyn Redwood, RN, MSN and president emerita of Children’s Health Defense, said it’s “bass-ackwards to release the vaccine to pregnant women before doing a clinical trial or proper animal studies.”

FDA added warning to J&J vaccine of ‘serious but rare’ autoimmune disorder

On July 13, the FDA added a new warning on J&J’s (Janssen) COVID vaccine to include information pertaining to an observed increased risk of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) following vaccination.

According to an FDA news release, GBS is a neurological disorder in which the body’s immune system damages nerve cells, causing muscle weakness or, in the most severe cases, paralysis.

Based on an analysis of VAERS data, there have been 100 preliminary reports of GBS following vaccination with J&J’s vaccine. Of these reports, 95 were serious and required hospitalization. There was one reported death.

While the cause of GBS is not fully known, it often follows infection with a virus and has been linked to other vaccines. The FDA concluded the benefits of the vaccine outweigh any danger, but included the proviso in fact sheets about the drug for providers and patients.

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is expected to discuss the GBS cases during an upcoming meeting, the CDC said.

Coroner says vaccine not to blame for man’s death after Pfizer— wife not convinced

A healthcare worker who died four days after his second dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine was killed by heart disease, according to the Orange County, California coroner.

As The Defender reported this week, Tim Zook, an x-ray technologist at South Coast Global Medical Center in Santa Ana, was hospitalized Jan. 5 — just hours after being vaccinated. Zook’s wife, Rochelle, told the Orange County Registerher husband’s health rapidly deteriorated after receiving his second dose of Pfizer’s vaccine. He died Jan. 9.

An autopsy report released Wednesday found Zook’s heart was severely enlarged, thicker than normal and dilated. “There is a focus of severe coronary artery disease,” according to the report, which also said Zook’s heart valves showed mild-to-moderate calcium deposits.

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Schumer pressures Dems to wrap up infrastructure, reconciliation before August recess

July 17, 2021

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer is pressing Democrats and Republicans to wrap up negotiations on a conventional infrastructure bill and a “human infrastructure” bill ahead of the August recess.

Mr. Schumer, New York Democrat, said Thursday that he was setting a hard deadline of next week for both deals so they could be presented to the Senate for consideration.

“All parties involved in the bipartisan infrastructure bill talks must now finalize their agreement so that the Senate can begin considering that legislation next week,” he said. “I am setting the same deadline next Wednesday for the entire Senate Democratic Caucus to agree to move forward on the budget resolution with reconciliation. … The time has come to make progress, and we will.”

The deadline adds pressure to senators haggling over the $1.2 bipartisan infrastructure deal and the Democrat’s go-it-alone $3.5 trillion package of health care, child care and anti-poverty spending that the administration dubbed “human infrastructure.”

President Biden said he is confident that Congress will get the job done and that Republicans will provide the necessary support to pass the package of traditional infrastructure projects.

“I’ve watched and listened [as] the press declared my initiative dead at least 10 times so far,” Mr. Biden said at a White House press conference. “I don’t think it’s dead; I think it’s still alive. I still have confidence we’re going to be able to get what I proposed and what I’ve agreed to in a bipartisan agreement on infrastructure.”

Last month, Mr. Biden and a bipartisan group of 11 lawmakers agreed to a tentative framework of the deal to spend $1.2 trillion over the next eight years on upgrading the nation’s roads, bridges, airports and seaports.

Of the sum, more than $550 billion comes from revenue streams that have yet to be made public. The exact nature of that funding is behind the holdup.

Democrats and Republicans say the package’s main selling point is that it does not raise taxes. Sticking to that promise, however, and coming up with the funding is proving difficult.

Working out an initial proposal to fund the deal by bolstering the Internal Revenue Service’s ability to crack down on tax cheats is proving particularly difficult.

“There’s got to be a product that has gone through the proper vetting and that we get it right. … It includes not just complications on the pay-for side, which we’re talking about right now, but also on the spending side,” said Sen. Rob Portman, Ohio Republican and one of the crafters of the bipartisan deal. “So there’s a lot of work to be done, and we’re working through it.”

Senate Democrats also have to figure out the full context of their $3.5 trillion package of social welfare programs. All 11 Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee set an outline for the proposal this week.

Although details remain sparse, many Democrats champion the deal as a “bold and robust” expansion of the social safety net.

“I think we are making progress in moving forward with the most consequential piece of legislation passed for working people since the 1930s,” said Mr. Sanders, an avowed socialist. “And it is legislation which is finally going to ask the wealthy and large corporations to start paying their fair share.”

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Ghislaine Maxwell took two previously undisclosed trips with Bill Clinton to ‘escape’ from Jeffrey Epstein

July 17, 2021

Two previously unknown trips shared by Ghislaine Maxwell and Bill Clinton have been revealed, and journalist Vicky Ward has described the relationship between the two as an “escape” from the late Jeffrey Epstein.

On the ‘Chasing Ghislaine’ podcast, Ward alleged this week that Maxwell joined Clinton on two foreign trips in the early 2000s and was considered “just as important” to his staff as Epstein.

Clinton reportedly used Epstein’s infamous Lolita Express plane – which was said to jet some people for sexual encounters with underage women – to visit Japan, Taiwan, and China in 2005. He also flew by private jet to India in 2003. Maxwell joined him on both trips and was treated as a member of the former president’s team.

It had previously been revealed that Clinton took trips on Epstein’s Lolita Express in the early 2000s, a period when authorities would later claim Epstein was running a sex-trafficking ring.

Citing sources close to Clinton, Ward, who has covered Epstein for decades, said it was not just Epstein and Clinton getting close in the early 2000s, but also the former president and Maxwell. Maxwell, Ward claims, used her tips with Clinton during this time as an “escape” from her unusual relationship and “sick partnership” with Epstein.

“Remember, Clinton’s post-presidency was an exciting, very attractive place to be. He and an entourage went on fascinating trips to Europe, to Asia, to Africa and he met with extremely interesting people,” Ward said.

Clinton was traveling at the time, promoting schemes to make AIDS and HIV medicine more readily available and affordable.

“She was very excited by what she was about to do. And she told me that she was off to see Bill Clinton, and that-that seemed to be a leitlight motif in her conversation for quite a long time,” journalist and Maxwell associate Christopher Mason told the ‘Chasing Ghislaine’ podcast, released through Audible Originals.

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Prosecutor hid investigation of Hunter Biden during campaign

July 17, 2021

Delayed subpoenas so matter would remain secret while Joe Biden ran for office.

Psaki Says Americans Who Post “Misinformation” Should be Banned From All Platforms

July 17, 2021

VIDEO: Students Shocked By Cuban Protesters Flying ‘Controversial’ American Flag

July 16, 2021

A video released by the group Campus Reform on Thursday shows young people, many of them ironically standing in front of the nation’s Capitol, being asked what the American flag means to them.

The reporter, Ophelie Jacobson, then shows them pictures of the recent protests in Cuba, and other places around the world like Hong Kong and Venezuela, and asks those being interviewed why people in other nations would be flying American flags.

The answers were not only a chilling display of the massive failure of the America education system, but how America’s young people are being taught to hate America.

Art prof claims enforcing rules at public schools is racist https://t.co/sqkskErvsm @CampusReform
— All American Girl (@AIIAmericanGirI) July 15, 2021

America Not That Great

The young people that Jacobson interviewed came from a wide range of demographics, so you might expect a wide range of answers. That is not what we got.

What we got is a generation that is being taught that is America is not an exceptional place, that it is a place full of racism and hate, and should not be held up as an example.

When asked what the American flag means to them, one woman said, “Shame, I felt like if I had the American flag and was associated with the American identity, I would be associated with a lot of bigotry, racism and sexism.”

Another student, a young African-American woman, said of the flag, “It’s a symbol of hurt.” When asked if the American flag is a symbol of freedom and liberty, most of the students said no.

One person – just one – said he thought the American flag symbolized “peace, prosperity, and freedom.”

As if that isn’t frightening enough, Ophelie Jacobson then showed the students pictures of the ongoing protests in Cuba, in Hong Kong in 2019, and Venezuela. It was obvious they had no clue why these people would be flying American flags.

One student remarked, “I mean we don’t represent a socialist government…so I don’t know why they would wave the flag. I’m not sure honestly.”

Another student said, “That’s a good question. It’s interesting to see them all decked out in American flags and everything.”

Interesting, like some oddity standing next to the 8 foot tall man and the bearded lady at the roadside carnival. Insert mandatory eye roll here.

Penn State student, Velezuean emigre calls on school to remove prominently displayed Fidel Castro quote https://t.co/Ed3vFUcmKl @CampusReform
— All American Girl (@AIIAmericanGirI) July 16, 2021

They Just Don’t Know What’s Really Going On

While a few of the students ventured a guess that it could be that Cubans were flying American flags because it is a symbol of freedom, another student said that, “the stigma is that you come to America, you get everything you want, but then you come here and it is actually a lot different. You have to work for your stuff.”

Wow.

This girl said she was from Ukraine. Come to America and get everything you want? Let’s hope Hunter Biden is not the poster child for immigration to the U.S. in Ukraine.

The idea being, these people waving American flags are just naive and don’t really know what’s going on in America.

One young man even said that, of course it is “our demographic, it’s college age people who have a firm understanding of what’s going on and all the inequities in America.” Our African-American young lady friend said no country should be put on a pedestal.

Ok. Your humble correspondent here likes to think I remember what it was like to be young.

You are smart, with it, on the ball, you have all the answers. This may be where I officially turn into my parents, but newsflash, snot-nose.

No, it is NOT your demographic that has a firm understanding of what’s going on.

Your demographic eats Tide pods and is not sure which bathroom to use. The reason Cubans flying American flags is a mystery to you? Call the MENSA people.

"Princeton course offers what it presents as solutions to combat the ‘racial biases built in tech’" such as soap dispensers and facial recognition.

reports @SergeiKelley for @campusreform #Princeton https://t.co/lNpyCDHXwB
— Leadership Institute (@LeadershipInst) July 12, 2021

Liberal Enclave Washington D.C.

In all fairness to these idealistic young people, they live in a hugely liberal city. Citizens of Washington D.C. voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020 by overwhelming margins.

Literally overwhelming. Both Hillary and Biden cleared 90+% of the vote.

And they are listening to a media that studies show is increasingly liberal as well. Combine this with what we know about the ratio of liberal to conservative professors on college campuses, and it’s no wonder.

These young people have no idea of the misery, extreme poverty, and terror that six decades of socialism and communism have wrought on the Cuban people.

These people apparently have no knowledge of refugees being crammed into rickety boats and life rafts, making the 90 mile journey through shark infested waters to America because they are so desperate for freedom.

One of the young women interviewed had this assessment of the flag those making the trip referenced above see as a symbol of freedom and liberty: “No, I don’t think America is as free as people think it is. It is just a piece of cloth at the end of the day.”

But everyone else is naive.

Watch the full video here.

Georgia Secretary Of State Explains Why He’s Just Now Discovering More Than 10,000 Illegal Votes Cast In 2020

July 16, 2021

The tangled web of voter reform laws, the Trump voter fraud accusations, and the Secretary of State Office’s findings show why we need more digging on what happened in Georgia.

During a detailed discussion with The Federalist on Wednesday, representatives from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office provided their perspective on new evidence suggesting more than 10,300 Georgian voters illegally cast ballots in the November 2020 general election.

Last week, The Federalist reported on recently obtained data indicating tens of thousands of Georgia voters had violated Section 21-2-218 of the state’s election code, which requires residents vote in the county in which they reside, unless they had changed their residence within 30 days of the election.

Shortly after the November 2020 election, Mark Davis, the president of Data Productions Inc. and an expert in voter data analytics and residency issues, determined from National Change of Address records that nearly 35,000 Georgia voters who indicated they had moved from one Georgia county to another voted in the 2020 general election in the county from which they had moved.

Kurt Hilbert, one of President Trump’s lead attorneys in the Georgia case, told The Federalist that this category of potentially illegal votes served as one of the 33 categories of voting irregularities underlying the president’s challenge to the Georgia election results. Specifically, in his 64-page complaint accompanied by thousands of pages of sworn affidavits and expert reports filed against the Georgia Secretary of State in early December last year, Trump alleged the state violated 21-2-218 by allowing “at least 40,279 individuals to vote who had moved across county lines at least 30 days prior to Election Day and who had failed to properly re-register to vote in their new county after moving.” The complaint further alleged that the state “improperly counted these illegal votes in the Contested Election.”

Trump’s claims of violations of Section 21-2-218, as well as the numerous other challenges, however, were never heard, Hilbert told The Federalist, because the chief judge of Fulton County, Chris Brasher, failed to appoint a legally eligible judge to hear the case until a month after the lawsuit was filed, making a trial on the president’s election challenge impossible. Then, after a judge was finally appointed late on December 31, the trial was scheduled for January 8 — two days after Congress would open and certify the Electoral College votes. Given the timing of the hearing, which effectively mooted the case, and the Secretary of State’s Office’s promise to meet with his legal team, Trump dropped his lawsuit challenging Georgia’s election.

That Investigation Continues

As The Federalist reported last week, Davis still continued to research the issue. In May, Davis obtained an updated voter database from the Secretary of State’s Office and “found that, of the approximately 35,000 Georgians who indicated they had moved from one county to another county more than 30 days before the November general election, as of May, more than 10,300 had updated their voter registration information, providing the Secretary of State the exact address they had previously provided to the USPS.” Further, “those same 10,000-plus individuals all also cast ballots in the county in which they had previously lived.”

In May, Davis shared this data with the Secretary of State’s Office, which agreed to launch an investigation into potential violations of Georgia’s election laws. Davis is convinced that the total number of residents who confirm their move was permanent — as opposed to merely students or military members who temporarily relocated — will eventually meet and then exceed President Biden’s margin of victory in Georgia, showing that Trump could have won a challenge to the Georgia election results had a court heard his case.

After the Federalist article ran, the Secretary of State’s Office, which had failed to provide responses to multiple questions posed by The Federalist by publication time, arranged for several staffers to provide background information, as well as providing access to the head investigator Frances Watson.

‘According to the Law’ Is Pretty Clear

The Secretary of State’s Office confirmed that the investigation into the approximately 35,000 residents who moved from one county to another more than 30 days before the election remains ongoing. However, when pushed to confirm the preliminary point — that voters who moved from one county to another county more than 30 days before the November election, but voted in their prior county, had voted illegally under 21-2-218 — an attorney with the Secretary of State’s Office stated the question was not that simple.

Section 21-2-218 must be read in light of 21-2-224, the Georgia officials stressed, and that latter provision, according to the Secretary of State’s Office, requires a clerk to allow electors named on the voter list to deposit their votes in the ballot box. However, Section 21-2-224 on which the Secretary of State’s Office relies, only requires electors be allowed “to deposit their ballots according to the law,” and it is difficult to fathom how that provision could alter the clear mandate of Section 21-2-218 for voters to vote in their county of residence.

It is not for the Secretary of State’s Office to say whether such votes constitute illegal votes, the lawyer stressed, noting in the office’s view that is a question for a Georgia court. The Secretary of State’s Office acknowledged, however, that a court could declare an election void if a candidate established that voters representing the total margin of victory had not been legal voters, although adding that Georgia courts have said that being on a National Change of Address list is not in itself enough to challenge a voter.

On the specifics of the investigation, the Secretary of State’s Office would only say that of the 10,300 voters Davis had identified who later updated their voter registrations, 86 percent identified as having moved counties but then voting in the prior county in person, with only 14 percent casting an absentee ballot. Of those who voted by absentee ballot, about 360 had the absentee ballot sent to their prior address.

Is the State ‘Investigation’ Serious?

Watson, however, would not say what further steps the office was taking to investigate. She also refused to state whether the office would send questionnaires to the more than 10,300 individuals who later updated their voting registration, as the Secretary of State’s Office had done for in its investigation of individuals who moved out of state prior to the November 2020 general election. But following completion of the investigation, the Secretary of State’s Office will present its findings to the state election board, which will determine the appropriate remedy and next steps, including whether prosecution is warranted.

The Secretary of State’s Office also refused to answer whether it had undertaken any investigation into the validity of these votes prior to certifying the election results, telling The Federalist that is not the right question and stressing that the Secretary of State’s Office focuses on rooting out fraud and that its role is not to contest elections.

However, two of President Trump’s attorneys in the Georgia election lawsuit told The Federalist that both before and after the election contest was filed, the Secretary of State’s Office refused all efforts to address this and other illegal categories of voting identified by the president’s legal team and hindered their attempts to contest the election and resolve serious concerns regarding illegal votes cast and counted on November 3, 2020.

Cleta Mitchell, now a senior legal fellow for election integrity at Conservative Partnership Institute, helped lead the Georgia challenge. She told me “the Georgia secretary of state completely stonewalled every allegation of illegal votes.” “He just kept saying, ‘We have information that disputes these claims,’” Mitchell added, referring to the Secretary of State’s Office, “but he never made that information available.”

The Secretary of State’s Office, however, maintained that the information Trump’s legal team sought was confidential voter information which they were prohibited by law from sharing. In response to Trump’s request to sit down and review the data, the Secretary of State’s Office said it would not sit down with the legal team to show why their data was wrong while the lawsuit was ongoing. Hilbert told me the “Secretary of State’s office stated repeatedly that ‘their data’ (super-secret data) is correct, and the president’s data is incorrect (without showing why or how — and never producing any data comparison).”

“Of course, that conclusion is now proving to be false as new data is vindicating what was alleged,” Hilbert told The Federalist, in reference to Davis’s May 2021 analysis confirming more than 10,300 of the voters updated their voter registrations indicating their move was permanent.

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