{"id":62717,"date":"2026-02-05T09:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62717"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:07:37","slug":"missing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62717","title":{"rendered":"Missing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, The Federalist<\/a> posted an article about a recent problem with the voter fraud investigation in Fulton County, Georgia.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

A 2020 election scandal in Fulton County, Georgia\u2019s most populous county, continues to grow with new details revealed in a State Election Board (SEB) meeting last Wednesday \u2014 and now, a week later, with an FBI raid seeking election documents from the county.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fulton County was notoriously plagued with issues like long lines and voting machine malfunctions in the 2020 primary election, problems The New York Times described<\/a> as \u201ca full-scale meltdown.\u201d The problems continued through November\u2019s Election Day and beyond, prompting concerns<\/a> about votes being counted without proper supervision, among other things. The county\u2019s repeated failures in 2020 so degraded trust in Fulton County\u2019s ability to administer elections that the election director was forced to resign<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, members of the State Election Board have raised new concerns about the county\u2019s administration of the 2020 election, revealing in last week\u2019s meeting that the \u201ctapes\u201d used to verify that ballot counters started their counts at zero may be missing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When a ballot scanner is used to count ballots, election officials\u00a0must<\/a>\u00a0start the process by\u00a0printing and signing<\/a>\u00a0a \u201czero tape,\u201d which confirms the count started at zero.\u00a0After counting ballots on the ballot scanner, officials must print and sign a closing tape, which confirms the final vote tally from that machine.\u00a0In December, an attorney for Fulton County\u00a0admitted<\/a>\u00a0that the county failed to sign off on more than 100 \u201ctabulator tapes\u201d \u2014\u00a0equivalent to\u00a0about 315,000 votes \u2014 from early voting in the 2020 election. That admission was prompted by a complaint that was investigated by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger\u2019s office.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

State law<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0only requires the secretary of state to retain election documents for 24 months past the election, and local governments only retain \u201crecords related to the process of computing, tallying, and canvassing the vote\u201d for two years,\u00a0according<\/a>\u00a0to the Georgia Archives.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But, as Johnston noted in last week\u2019s meeting, the\u00a0complaint was submitted in early 2022,\u00a0\u201cwell within the 24-month period.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Wednesday, a week after the SEB meeting, the FBI executed a search warrant at the Fulton County election office. According to election attorney\u00a0Cleta Mitchell<\/a>, the search warrant included \u201czero tapes\u201d from the 2020 general election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the board is left\u00a0with few answers. It\u2019s unclear whether the tapes ever made it out of Fulton County, if they were signed, or even if they exist at all. If they do exist, they may have been handled properly but thrown away in the years since 2020. They could even still be filed away somewhere, where investigators have been unable to track them down. No one seems able to provide a paper trail.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The people responsible for the fraud probably figured that time would run out before their activities were discovered. Obviously, that is not the case. Hopefully, there will be enough trials and convictions to discourage anyone else from attempting to steal an election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, The Federalist posted an article about a recent problem with the voter fraud investigation in Fulton County, Georgia. The article reports: A 2020 election scandal in Fulton County, Georgia\u2019s most populous county, continues to grow with new details … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13302,19114,13272,12864,19116,19113,11815,19115],"class_list":["post-62717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2020-election-fraud","tag-ballot-counters","tag-fulton-county-georgia","tag-georgia-secretary-of-state-brad-raffensperger","tag-missing-tapes","tag-state-election-board-seb","tag-the-federalist","tag-zero-tape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62718,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62717\/revisions\/62718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}