Fulton, GA SOS Terminating Election Whistleblowers but take no Action on Illegal Ballot Scanning

[GARLAND FAVORITO]

 

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December 21, 2020                                                                                               garl...@VoterGA.net 

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Fulton Co., GA SOS Terminating Election Whistleblowers but  

Take No Action against Those Who Illegally Scanned Ballots 

 

ATLANTA GA – A Fulton County election official sent termination notices to whistleblowers Susan Voyles and Bridget Thorne on Thursday after they raised concerns about potential November 3^rd election fraud at General Assembly hearings earlier this month. The same Fulton official wrote to Thorne asking her to train poll workers in August of this year. Other poll workers said recently they are being asked to work a 12-hour shift because of the poll worker shortage. 

 

Thorne testified that she participated in pre-election ballot testing conducted at the on live ballot stock which was not properly secured after the tests were run at the World Congress Center (WCC). Voyles testified that she noticed potentially fraudulent mail-in ballots as an auditor during the full hand count Fulton conducted on November 14^th and 15^th at the WCC. The ballots were not creased from mailing, were not marked with a pen or pencil and were on abnormal ballot stock. 

 

Secretary of State (SOS) Brad Raffensperger condemned the “political firing” as “retribution against whistleblowers” that “poses a threat to the continued strength and vibrancy of our democracy”. But the SOS also sought to achieve a political firing earlier this month. On December 1^st, he called for the resignation of Spalding County Elections Director Marcia Ridley after she explained to media there was an Election Eve poll book update that caused Election Day delays. 

 

Attention focused on Spalding County when poll books malfunctioned on Election Day causing nearly a two-hour delay in voting. Morgan County reported a similar poll book problem on Election Day but was able to get around it with emergency procedures. SOS Manager Gabriel Sterling inadvertently admitted the poll books did not record an audit log entry for the poll book update that Ridley experienced. VoterGA has called for a forensic report of Spalding County voting equipment. 

 

Ironically, Fulton County has taken no known action to hold county election workers and supervisors responsible for illegally scanning thousands of ballots after telling monitors and media representatives that scanning would stop at 10:30 on Election Night. Just over a half hour after workers scanned the potentially fraudulent ballots, an election line feed showed a 100,000+ vote spike for Joe Biden that turned the Georgia Presidential election in his favor. 

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[Jennifer Tanner]

GEORGIA VOTERS: Go the extra mile to protect election integrity and transparency for January 5. Write to Georgia election officials!

Only Georgia voters Please!! if you are not a Georgia voter do not send and overwhelm the offices with comments they don’t care about. 

State election officials don’t read form letters, so we have supplied you all the information you need, to create your OWN letter and who to send it to.Please make it your own, not a copy, or it will not be read.  They have told us this!!

1.Put these 5 email addresses in the To: line at the top 

State Election Board Br...@sos.GA.gov

Brad Raffensperger <Br...@sos.GA.gov>  

David Worley <Da...@ewLawllc.com>  

Ahn Le  <a...@leLawllc.com>  

T Matthew Mashburn <mmas...@georgia-elections.com>  

Rebecca Sullivan <Rebecca....@doas.ga.gov>  

and please put this email address in the bcc: line in...@ValidateTheVoteUSA.org

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Increase confidence in runoff results via hand count

      Direct counties now to increase faith in the January 5 election

      Hand counting, canvassing, and poll tapes to calm Runoff controversies

      Act now for a credible runoff election

 

2. Talking points for letter:

Dear Georgia Election Officials:

 Refer to yourself as a Georgia voter. 

I am a voter in  ………. County, Georgia.so

Add your own first paragraph of why you care about the credibility of the January election, such as: With control of the US Senate dependent on the accuracy and security of our January runoffs, your actions in the next few days are critical. Georgia voters, and the nation, are watching. We need your actions as summarized below:  

1. Immediately announce a discretionary manual recount for all three races prior to certification. To reduce controversy after Election Day and to increase confidence in the outcome, robust testing of the tabulations must be conducted in a transparent manner. The Secretary (and county boards of elections) can make unilateral decisions prior to their respective certifications to conduct a discretionary recount.  Request a  court order to conduct the discretionary recount by hand count under clear statutory procedures. Please plan for such a recount and announce it prior to any votes being counted. 

2. Require basic canvassing and ballot accounting. Basic canvassing procedures reconciling the number of voters to the ballots cast and counted should be required in each county prior to their certification of the election. The thousands of ballots not counted in November’s original certification and then located in the post-election audit demonstrated that such basic controls are lacking.  Such controls are necessary to build confidence in the accuracy of the January runoffs. The SEB should issue such orders now. 

3. Remind counties to post poll tapes properly.  Voters, campaigns, parties, and press rely on poll tapes being posted to the exterior door of the polling place on Election Night as required by statute. The poll tapes have  frequently been difficult or impossible to read, undermining the transparency of the election. Given the public interest in the election and the need for the verifiability of the results, instruct  the counties to post precinct poll tapes to make them fully readable from the outside of the building. 

Add a summation such as: Thank you for your immediate consideration of these three  measures  to greatly improve the January 5 Runoffs. 

Thank you, (or some other ending) 

Your name and address

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Send as quickly as you can (Jan 5 is just days away) and please forward to your Georgia friends to also send. Only forward to Georgia voters Please!! if you are not a Georgia voter do not send and overwhelm the offices with comments they don’t care about. 

Thanks!

 

Jennifer Tanner 

ValidateTheVoteUSA.org 

[Jennifer Tanner]

add this admin person to the Board email addresses. Jasmine Shannon jsha...@sos.ga.gov

She will have it for the record.

Sorry I forgot this 

Jennifer