Georgia\u2019s Fulton County has acknowledged breaking vote certification rules, suggesting over 300,000 ballots were not properly counted<\/p>\n
Election officials in the US state of Georgia have admitted to major violations of vote certification procedures during the 2020 presidential race. US President Donald Trump, who lost to Joe Biden, has repeatedly claimed that the election was \u201cstolen\u201d and marred by widespread fraud and irregularities.\u00a0
\nThe admission, made earlier this month, emerged from a complaint filed by election integrity activist David Cross, who accused Fulton County, Georgia\u2019s most populous county, of illegally certifying at least 315,000 ballots in 2020.
\nBiden beat Trump in Georgia \u2013 which has 16 electoral votes \u2013 by fewer than 12,000 votes, before going on to win the Electoral College 306\u2013232.
\nThe dispute centers on tabulator tapes produced by voting machines during early voting. Under state rules, each tabulator must generate closing tapes signed by poll workers to certify the recorded vote totals.
\nAfter filing an open records request with Fulton County, Cross found at least 134 tabulator tapes with no signatures, meaning that the associated ballots could not have been legally certified.
\nCross also raised allegations of missing \u201czero tapes\u201d meant to confirm that machines began counting from zero at the start of polling, along with discrepancies involving scanner serial numbers and unusually late poll closing times.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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During a recent State Election Board hearing, Ann Brumbaugh, an attorney for the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, said the county \u201cdoes not dispute the allegations,\u201d acknowledging the failure as a violation of election board rules.
\nMembers of the state board described the findings as \u201cvery troubling\u201d and referred the case to the Georgia Attorney General, seeking potential civil penalties of $5,000 per unsigned tape and other enforcement action.
\nThe Georgia result has remained a focal point of Trump\u2019s broader complaints about the 2020 election, which have been rejected by Democrats and formed the basis of multiple legal cases against him.
\nSince returning to office, Trump has vowed to overhaul the US voting system, pledging stricter voter identification requirements, limits on mail-in voting, and a shift toward paper ballots, arguing that these changes are necessary to restore confidence in elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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