Fulton County REPRIMANDED for double counting thousands of ballots during 2020 election

Nearly four years later and Fulton County is being reprimanded for double counting thousands of votes during the 2020 election, which likely contributed to Joe Biden’s ‘win’.

To be clear the reprimand is for ‘scanning’ the ballots twice, but we all know that means ‘counting’.

Here’s more from AJC:

The State Election Board reprimanded Fulton County and ordered an independent election monitor Tuesday, finding that the county likely scanned over 3,000 ballots twice during the recount of the 2020 presidential election.

The decision, on a 2-1 vote, resolves one of the last remaining investigations of the 2020 election, drawing jeers from a crowd of Republican voters who wanted more severe punishment against the Democratic county.

The case exposed errors in Fulton’s 2020 recount but didn’t indicate any fraud in the election, which Democrat Joe Biden won by a 11,779-vote margin in Georgia over Republican Donald Trump. Three vote counts — two by machine and one by hand — each showed similar results.

Election investigators said they were unable to confirm that the double-scanned ballots were actually counted twice in the recount, which was the official result of the election. During the recount, Trump gained 939 net votes against Biden in Fulton County, where Biden received 73% support, according to the results.

The Houston County voter who brought the complaint, Joe Rossi, said the investigation shows that the 2020 election was flawed, both during the recount and the hand audit of all 5 million votes cast. The State Election Board last year found that thousands of votes were double-counted or misallocated during an audit in Fulton.

“It has now been factually proven that both the hand audit, which is really, really important, and the certified machine count, have both been found to be in violation of Georgia election law,” Rossi told the board. “I’ll close with one word: vindicated.”

But state election officials said the election was accurate and all votes were counted.

“As long as we have the paper ballot, we have the paper trail that accurately reports the voter’s choice,” said Charlene McGowan, general counsel for the secretary of state’s office. “Fulton County used improper procedures during the recount of the presidential contest of 2020. The investigation shows there are some duplicative ballot images in the ballot images that Fulton County provided, but what cannot be confirmed conclusively is if those ballots were included in the count.”

In the video below the State Election Board asks about over 380k ballots that they didn’t have access to from Fulton County. The answer was that they weren’t subpoenaed because only those affected by the ‘recount’ were requested:

This is exactly why the state can’t conclusively confirm that the duplicative ballots weren’t counted. But the reverse is also true, that they can’t confirm that these ballots WEREN’T counted.

As I said, we all know they were counted and there were likely many more that were duplicated and counted as well.

https://therightscoop.com/fulton-county-reprimanded-for-double-counting-thousands-of-ballots-during-2020-election/