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By Field Searcy
July 14, 2024

At the July 9th Georgia State Election Board meeting in Atlanta, election integrity proponents celebrated a notable triumph. The primary room, CAP 341, reached full occupancy, prompting the need for two extra overflow rooms to house people coming from all over Georgia including Savannah and Cairo. More than 50 participants registered to speak during the half-hour public comment period, which the chairman kindly extended to give each person an opportunity to talk.

Dr. Jan Johnston initiated the meeting with a proposal to revisit SEB2023-025, the Rossi/Moncla case, entailing over 140 electoral law breaches in Fulton County during the 2020 election, following an inquiry by the Secretary of State’s office.

During the last SEB meeting in May, the SOS Investigative team suggested sending the case for a criminal investigation to the Attorney General. Dr. Johnston’s proposal to change the voting record for 41,691 ballots that lacked images, tabulator tapes, or were counted twice and send the case to the Attorney General did not receive support. A rebuttal by the complainants was not allowed –– a standard practice for the board in previous cases.  Former board member Ed Lindsey’s later proposal to reprimand Fulton County and set up an independent observer for the November 2024 election was adopted.

Chairman Fervier ruled Dr. Johnston’s motion to reconsider out of order, resulting in a tense exchange. Subsequently, the board entered an Executive Session for potential litigation issues and resumed after half an hour. Upon reconvening, Dr. Johnston managed to pass a motion granting 30 minutes to complainants or their proxies for rebuttals during the public commentary. 

VoterGA’s Garland Favorito and complainants’ attorney Harry McDougal countered, detailing the case and having experts discuss Fulton County’s 2020 election issues with missing ballots, custody processes, and technical errors. Despite board member Sara Ghazal’s diversions, new member Janelle King made relevant inquiries. The board deferred a decision until the August SEB meeting, allowing time to assess the legalities of reopening the case.  A monitoring agreement for Fulton County has not been reached.

Additionally, the board considered two rule making petitions related to bolstering the integrity of elections. The first petition clarified existing rules to ensure uniformity across all 159 counties in releasing election documentation necessary for certifying results, which was approved with a 3-2 vote. The second petition aimed to reinstate the counting of paper ballots from tabulators at precincts on election night, ensuring they tally with the voter count, and this was unanimously passed 4-0.

UPDATE: An emergency meeting was convened late last Friday by the Georgia State Election Board. This came about because the board’s Tuesday’s meeting went into recess without being formally adjourned, creating a risk that actions taken that day might be invalidated. Most matters have been deferred to the August SEB meeting. However, two minor rule modifications were passed to enhance transparency and ensure the uniform application of rules across all counties. These include allowing more poll watchers in central tabulation centers and mandating that all counties publicly display their daily total of voters, for both walk-in and absentee voting, either at the election office entrance or on the county website—a practice many counties already adhere to. The new regulation insists on this course of action for all counties to guarantee uniformity.

Field Searcy is co-founder of GeorgiansForTruth.org, a grassroots volunteer effort to bring election integrity to Georgia. Visit for video from both sessions.

Last week, the Democracy Defense Project, a group of former Georgia governors and officials, launched a media campaign to assure Georgia voters that our election system is safe and secure. They claim voting machines are reliable and verifiable. However, they are either misinformed or misleading the public. Georgia has an election system that is “tore up from the floor up”. Let’s review the facts and the evidence.

Ongoing Court Case on Unsecure Electronic Voting

Georgians are waiting for a decision from Judge Amy Totenberg on the case Curling vs. Raffensperger. This case, which started seven years ago, called for the removal of the old Diebold voting machines and now includes the newer Dominion machines. During the trial, an expert witness hacked an election machine in front of the judge using just a pen. The Secretary of State’s (SOS) office admitted they have outsourced cybersecurity. Judge Totenberg has previously ruled that the voting system is unverifiable and breaks two Georgia laws. Despite warnings from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies, no updates have been made in four years. We’re still using the same machines, and even Governor Kemp admitted “you give anyone a voting machine and they can hack it”.

Election Law Violations

Recently, the Georgia State Election Board reviewed case #SEB2023-025, which found over 140 violations of Georgia Election Code by Fulton County in the 2020 election. They recommended a criminal investigation. Board member Dr. Janice Johnston said the election should not have been certified. The best the board could do was reprimand Fulton County and appoint a monitor. The Georgia GOP State Committee also reprimanded the board and demanded action from the Attorney General. It’s unclear if the board will reopen the case.

SOS Malfeasance and Voter Roll Manipulation

In the Lovell/Tullos et al vs. Raffensperger case, plaintiffs argued that Georgia election officials failed to follow laws and duties regarding elections. Two amicus briefs were filed as evidence. The Coovert brief showed that the SOS never conducted a 2020 machine audit as claimed. The Brooks/Strahl brief found evidence of massive synthetic identity theft and voter roll manipulation over the past ten years. This manipulation continued in 2022 and is happening now in 2024, involving tens of thousands of fraudulent voter roll changes summarized in this fraud report.

What Can Citizens Do?

There is a lot of evidence showing problems with Georgia’s election system, but not all court cases have been tried, and not all legal arguments have been heard. Georgia voters are still being injured and rights are being violated by this flawed system. Our judicial, executive, and legislative systems seem compromised as they have failed to address these issues. What can citizens do? Get informed, get the facts, and get engaged. We must hold accountable the officials who have violated the law and the public trust. This is the only way to restore election integrity and confidence in Georgia. Change will only happen if YOU get involved.

Field Searcy is co-founder of GeorgiansForTruth.org, a grassroots volunteer effort to bring election integrity to Georgia elections.

UPDATE 6.29.2024 – Official email from Georgia GOP below in PDF format.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Cairo, GA (June 6, 2024) – At the Georgia Republican Party State Committee meeting preceding the state convention held on May 18th, a resolution introduced by Sam Carnline, co-founder of GeorgiansForTruth.org and Georgia GOP State Committeeman, was passed unanimously by the committee members. The resolution expresses grave concerns over irregularities in the 2020 presidential election in Fulton County that were outlined in case #SEB2023-025 discussed by the Georgia State Election Board on May 7, 2024. Over 140 violations of Georgia Election Code were cited in the case. As detailed by State Election Board Member Dr. Jan Johnston, the irregularities included:

• 17,852 certified votes lacking ballot images or unidentified sources
• 20,713 votes with no identifiable source tabulator
• Failure to properly amend election records and audit totals

Notably, the margin of victory in the 2020 Georgia presidential election was just over 11,000 votes. Dr. Johnston stated that the Fulton County election results should not have been certified and motioned for the State Election Board to take the following actions:

• Amend all election records and Risk Limiting Audit totals to reflect the correct totals
• Request the Secretary of State to invalidate 17,852 certified votes that have no ballot images or identify and authenticate the source of the ballots for those votes
• Request the Secretary of State to expunge the 20,713 votes that have no source tabulator or to authenticate where the votes originated
• Refer the evidence to the Attorney General for investigation and prosecution
• Recommend a monitor team to oversee the 2024 election in Fulton County

However, the State Election Board failed to enforce election laws and address these irregularities except with a mere reprimand. The resolution passed by the Georgia GOP State Committee:

• Expresses grave concerns over the 2020 Fulton County election irregularities
• Supports Dr. Johnston’s motions to address these violations
• Calls for reprimand of the State Election Board for failure to uphold laws
• Demands the Georgia Attorney General investigate these matters
• Recommends stringent 2024 election monitoring in Fulton County

“With a razor-thin margin of just over 11,000 votes deciding the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, the irregularities in Fulton County simply cannot be ignored,” said Carnline. “The Georgia Republican Party will not stand by while evidence of election violations is disregarded by the very authorities meant to uphold election integrity.” The resolution will be distributed as a press release to all media outlets in Georgia, with copies provided to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, and members of the Georgia General Assembly.

About GeorgiansForTruth.org
GeorgiansForTruth.org is a non-partisan organization dedicated to ensuring free, fair, and transparent elections in Georgia through advocacy and public education.

Resolution on 2020 Election Irregularities in Fulton County

WHEREAS, the Georgia State Election Board discussed case #SEB2023-025 on May 7, 2024, outlining over 140 violations of the Georgia Election Code by Fulton County in the November 2020 election; and

WHEREAS, State Election Board Member Dr. Jan Johnston detailed:

• 17,852 certified votes lacking ballot images or unidentified sources
• 20,713 votes with no identifiable source tabulator
• Failure to properly amend election records and audit totals

WHEREAS, Dr. Johnston motioned to amend records, invalidate or authenticate problematic votes, refer evidence for investigation, and recommend monitors for 2024 Fulton elections; and

WHEREAS, the State Election Board failed to enforce election laws and address these irregularities;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Georgia Republican Party:

1. Expresses grave concerns over the 2020 Fulton County election irregularities
2. Supports Dr. Johnston’s motions to address these violations
3. Calls for reprimand of the State Election Board for failure to uphold laws
4. Demands the Georgia Attorney General investigate these matters
5. Recommends stringent 2024 election monitoring in Fulton County

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED to distribute this resolution as a press release to all media, and provide copies to Georgia’s Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, and General Assembly members.

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Georgia State Election Board Member Dr. Jan Johnston outlining the 140 + violations of Georgia Election Code by Fulton County in the November 2020 election. Her original motions were to:

• Amend all election records and Risk Limiting Audit totals to reflect the correct totals;
• Request the SOS to invalidate 17,852 certified votes that have no ballot images or identify and authenticate the source of the ballots for those votes;
• Request the SOS to expunge the 20,713 votes that have no source tabulator or to authenticate where the votes originated;
• Refer the evidence to the Attorney General for investigation and prosecution;
• Recommend a monitor team to oversee the Fulton Co 2024 election.

The motion was not seconded. A subsequent motion to “reprimand” Fulton County was passed. We’ve been to SEB hearings where minor infractions of a single statute are referred to the Attorney General for further action. Here, there were over 140 violations of statutes and only a reprimand is approved.

February 1st marked the end of the Curling vs Raffensperger 4 week bench trial conducted by District Federal Court Judge Amy Totenberg. This long running case was started in 2018 to challenge Georgia’s previous electronic voting system provided by Diebold. In an earlier court order, Georgia was required to discontinue the use of the Diebold direct recording equipment which consisted of a touch screen but no verifiable paper audit trail. Since then, Georgia invested $107 million in a new system from Dominion Election Systems which has brought its own controversies with an unreadable proprietary QR code that is utilized to tabulate a voters selections. In fact, Judge Totenberg ruled in an earlier opinion that the system is unverifiable to the voter and violates 2 Georgia statutes. The Federalist has provided a downloadable PDF from each days proceedings which can be found here. So far this Georgia General Assembly Session, there no movement to ditch the Dominion system. The Curling case represents a new hope in relief for Georgians.

Some of the key takeaways from this trial were:

• Dr. Alex J. Halderman flipped votes in a Ballot Marking Device (BMD) with a ball point pen. This is the 2nd time this has occurred in the presence of Judge Totenberg. The first time was 3 years ago and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has not made any attempts to upgrade the software suite even after 4 other Election Assistance Commission (EAC) approved updates have been available.
• Testimony from SOS office staff indicates that no one in the SOS office is in charge of cybersecurity of Georgia’s election system and that this has been outsourced to Dominion.

The following video is from a press conference conducted on February 8, 2024, by Garland Favorito of VoterGA. Ricardo Davis, a co-founder of VoterGA, was also a co-plaintiff in the case and this press conference highlights the key evidence put on the record by his attorney, David Oles. Opening statement, evidence summary and closing presentation slides can be found here on the VoterGA site.

What is Georgia “leadership” afraid of?  At a recent GOP Fish Fry in Perry, Georgia, election integrity apparel and vendors were banned.  See the revealing actions of political censorship and admissions from Governor Kemp that “if you give anybody a voting computer, they can hack it”.  

All we’re seeking is elections that we can trust.  We need hand marked paper ballots, publicly hand counted at the precinct on the day of election.  

Election integrity activists packed the room again at the December 19, 2023 Georgia State Election Board meeting. Of important note for this meeting, Joe Rossi originally had two cases that were to be discussed before the board. Case #SEB2023-025 which had been investigated and placed in the category “Recommended for Referral to the Attorney General’s Office”. This case involved 17,852 missing ballot images and 4,081 double counted batches in Fulton County for the 2nd machine count in the 2020 General Election. On the Friday before the SEB meeting, this case was continued (pulled) from the agenda. A second case SEBBI2023-001 was a board inquiry case also brought forward by Joe Rossi calling for the Georgia State Election Board to investigate SOS Brad Raffensperger for violations of Georgia’s Election Code. For details on both of these cases see Rossi video on Voice of Rural America with BKP.

After the resignation of Judge Duffy as SEB Chairman, there were only 4 remaining board members. In a surprising move, interim Chairman Matt Mashburn voted to create a tie (2-2) on the decision to investigate SOS Raffensperger in the SEBBI2023-001 case. It all seemed pre-planned as the meeting was opened by Mashburn with a discussion about the SEB not formally adopting Robert’s Rules of Order (RRO) for their proceedings only to use them as a guide. RRO allows for the chairman to vote to break a tie. In this case, it was used to create a tie so the measure failed. A second motion was passed to refer this matter the Georgia Legislature.

Again, with a packed room, activists filled all the public comments speaking spots in the Part 1 video below. Go to 02:36:00 for the public comments.

During the 12.19.23 State Election Board, election integrity activists held a press conference admonishing the SEB on the removal of Joe Rossi’s case #SEB2023-025, which had been investigated and placed in the category of “Recommend referral to the Attorney General for criminal prosecution”. In addition, at the urging of Rossi, a new type of case had been created case #SEBBI2023-01 for a board inquiry on whether the SEB could investigate the Secretary of State for violating Georgia election laws. See separate post for video of the SEB meeting.

On November 28th in Perry, Georgia, election integrity activists met to hear from Dr. Doug Frank for a presentation on “Follow the Data – Election Fraud in Georgia”

Thanks for Ted Metz for recording.