Fulton County Elections Did Not Destroy Mail-In Ballots for Trump

I spoke earlier today with the Fulton County Board of Commissioners chairman, Robb PItts. We talked to him right as these documents were coming out. And he said that they, the Fulton County Board of Elections, complied with everything that the FBI was asking for.

The investigation was initiated by a referral from attorney Kurt Olsen, who now serves as President Trump's "director of election security and integrity," overseeing the attempt to investigate Mr. Trump's loss. The document lists multiple possible "deficiencies or defects" in the Fulton County vote count, including the county's admission that it does not have scanned images of all the ballots counted during the original count or the recount.

The U.S. Justice Department is suing Fulton County officials in an attempt to obtain sensitive voter records from the 2020 presidential election. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Atlanta, accuses the Fulton County Board of Registration ...

The investigation was initiated by a referral from attorney Kurt Olsen, who now serves as President Trump's "director of election security and integrity" overseeing the attempt to investigate Mr. Trump's loss. The document lists multiple possible "deficiencies or defects" in the Fulton County vote count, including the county's admission that it does not have scanned images of all the ballots counted during the original count or the recount.

The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against a Georgia county seeking access to 2020 voting records, as Donald Trump continues to assert the presidential election was stolen from him.

These differences are well within the expected variances in a computer count vs. a hand count and further support the overall conclusion of the hand audit — that the initial reported result in the presidential contest in Georgia was correct." Investigators with the Georgia secretary of state's office wrote that "these allegations, like so many, are well intentioned. That said, in nearly all of our investigations we are seeing the expected and normal degree of issues that occur due to human error in nearly every election." Fulton County officials entered into a 2023 consent order with the State Election Board as a result of that case, in which the county promised to improve its audit process and both the state and county acknowledged there was no intentional misconduct and that errors did not affect the 2020 election result.

While it’s true that certain aspects of Fulton County’s election administration were not perfect – and officials have acknowledged as such – there has been no proof offered of widespread fraud.

Without providing evidence, President Donald Trump has long complained that fraud led to his loss in Georgia in 2020. In a phone call shortly after the election, he famously but unsuccessfully implored state officials to “find” about 11,800 ...

"Every audit, every recount, every court ruling has confirmed what we the people of Fulton County already knew: Our elections were fair and accurate and every legal vote was counted," Robb Pitts, the chairman of the Fulton County Board of ...