Georgia SoS Raffensperger Finally Discovers 10,300 Illegal Votes from 2020 Election

Well, what changed, Brad?

Just a few months ago, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger assured us that there was absolutely “no” fraud in Georgia.

He called the 2020 election “perfect.”

That’s his word.

Yet…

In the span of just one week, Raffensperger has appeared to flip flop not one time, but two times!

First Raffensperger came out publicly and said that the election officials from Fulton County should be fired!

Why?

Because they allowed “election failures” to happen.

But wait?!

If the election was “perfect” and if there was “no” fraud, then what election failures is Raffensperger talking about?

Well, he has just now discovered 10,300 illegal and illegitimate ballots!

(We have a suspicion that the number of fraudulent ballots is actually much higher than that, but that’s a topic for another article).

More details below:

https://twitter.com/USNewsBlock/status/1413554676658749442

https://twitter.com/JamesHa77433215/status/1413911621228023811

10,300 Illegal Votes Discovered in Georgia:
GA, updated voter database: As of May, more than 10,300 people have updated their voter registration and provided GA SOS the exact address they gave the USPS last year. These were Change of Address forms completed before Oct 3rd 2020.

— 🇺🇸Robert.N🇺🇸 (@Rob_Noorollah) July 10, 2021

Keep in mind it’s July 2021.

It’s been OVER half a year since the 2020 presidential election.

And Raffensperger is JUST NOW finding these illegal ballots?!

Keep in mind, he found them exactly where we said he WOULD find them!

The Federalist confirms the ongoing investigation:

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.”

To us, it looks like Raffensperger is attempting to CYA.

After seeing what happened in Maricopa County…

After hearing that an audit will likely be coming to Georgia…

We think Raffensperger wants to get ahead of the train before it begins coming for him.

We also know that @GaSecofState Brad Raffensperger's office took $5 million from the Zuckerberg political operation for the 2020 election. Again: collaboration between Dems and GOP establishment at every level.https://t.co/Dc8FAUS711

— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) July 13, 2021

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger demanded the firing of two high-profile election officials in Fulton County, Georgia, on Thursday after it was revealed a number of ballots were double-counted during the 2020 presidential election.https://t.co/7VTljMo9ih

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) July 17, 2021

NEW!

President Donald J. Trump:

"The Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, together with Brad Raffensperger, allowed this Election in Georgia to be Rigged and Stolen. Why they ever agreed to Stacey Abram’s Consent Decree nobody will ever know… pic.twitter.com/yUe3XJGiu5

— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) July 16, 2021

Is it too little, too late?

Or is it better late than never?

Raffensperger doesn’t appear to be putting on a show.

He called for the firing of the election board in Fulton County.

Insiders say that they believe he is serious.

According to Fox 5 Atlanta:

Georgia’s Secretary of State is calling for a major shake-up in the Fulton County Elections Office. Brad Raffensperger has tweeted that he thinks the elections director should be fired immediately.

Raffensperger sent out several tweets in a matter of hours saying Fulton County has failed voters for far too long. He said Election Director Rick Barron and the county’s Registration Chief Ralph Jones need to be fired immediately.

In February the Fulton County Elections Board voted to terminate Barron. A month later, the County Board of Commissioners rejected that decision.

Fulton County drew national attention in 2020. The June presidential primary saw technical difficulties and voters waiting in lines for hours. In November, then-President Donald Trump claimed there were illegal votes counted in Fulton County.

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Last month, Raffensperger held a news conference surrounded by newspaper headlines about problems with the election. Raffensperger said something needs to change.

“Fulton deserves and Fulton voters deserve to have an election that works. Every two years we all see the issues, some new, some repeated,” said Raffensperger.

So what do you think?

Have Raffensperger discovered the truth?

Or is he simply attempting to CYA?

Let us know in the comments below!