“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,” President Trump said.
QUICK FACTS:
- President Donald Trump released a statement on Wednesday condemning the 2020 presidential election vote recount in Fulton County, Georgia.
- He emphasized the fact that the Fulton County hand recount was off by 60%, as confirmed by VoterGA.
- But he also mentioned “illegal votes” found in Georgia as well as “obsolete voter registrations and “dead people” who had apparently voted.
- President Trump called out “corruption at the highest level” and warned that “Our Nation is at stake!”
WHAT TRUMP SAID:
- “[T]he hand recount was wrong by 60%,” Trump said.
- “100,000 tally sheets for ballots were missing.”
- “[T]hey duplicated thousands of extra votes for Joe Biden.”
- There were “fabricated vote counts of 100–0 counts for Biden.”
- “Ballot batch sheets fraudulently showed multiple unanimous 100–0 counts for Biden, as well as 150–0, and 200–0.”
- “This is on top of the 35,000 illegal votes recently found in Georgia, and the over 100,000 obsolete voter registrations, plus thousands of dead people, deleted AFTER the election,” he added.
WHAT VOTERGA HAS SAID:
- VoterGA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, all-volunteer, dues-free “coalition of citizens founded to restore election integrity in Georgia,” according to its website. “We advocate verifiable auditable recount capable and transparent elections.”
- On July 13, the organization reported that “Fulton County’s hand count audit of the November 3rd 2020 election was riddled with massive errors and provable fraud.”
- The VoterGA team “found 7 falsified audit tally sheets containing fabricated vote totals for their respective batches. For example, a batch containing 59 actual ballot images for Joe Biden, 42 for Donald Trump and 0 for Jo Jorgenson was reported as 100 for Biden and 0 for Trump. The seven batches of ballot images with 554 votes for Joe Biden, 140 votes for Donald Trump and 11 votes for Jo Jorgenson had tally sheets in the audit falsified to show 850 votes for Biden, 0 votes for Trump and 0 votes for Jorgenson.”
- VoterGA’s press release also stated that Fulton County “failed to include over 100,000 tally sheets, including more than 50,000 from mail-in ballots, when the results were originally published for the full hand count audit conducted by the office of the Secretary of State for the November 3rd 2020 election. Those tally sheets remained missing until late February when the county supplemented their original audit results.”
- “Petitioners contend that Fulton County did not provide drop box transfer forms for at least three pickup days when obligated to do so via an Open Records Request. Those missing forms are still needed to provide chain of custody proof for about 5,000 ballots,” also according to the press release.
WHY IT MATTERS:
- VoterGA concludes that “all these anomalies,” now included in the Fulton County ballot inspection lawsuit, prove “additional counts of how the Equal Protection and Due Process Constitutional rights of Georgia voters were violated.”
WHAT ABOUT THE ARIZONA AUDIT?:
- Arizona Senate President Karen Fann—who’s leading the GOP’s 2020 election audit effort in Maricopa County—told the radio station KTAR-FM on Tuesday that “the number of votes certified by the county and the number of ballots counted in the audit do not match,” according to reports.
- “They haven’t released a number yet, if you will, however we do know that those numbers do not match with Maricopa County at this point”, Fann said.
AND PENNSYLVANIA?
- Pennsylvania Republicans toured the Arizona audit and indicated in early July they’re intentions to conduct a similar audit which will be privately funded.
- Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano (R)—chair of the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee—leads the effort.
- Mastriano announced last week that he’s already sent letters to Philadelphia, York, and Tioga counties asking them to turn over election materials by the end of July.
- The Philadelphia Inquirer reports those materials include ballots, voting machines, vote-counting equipment, mail-in ballot envelopes, and mail-in ballot applications.
- Sen. Mastriano could resort to issuing subpoenas to force counties to comply if they refuse to provide the materials.
Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith.
