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2021-04-05 Government Corruption
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Files Legal Brief to Weaken Fulton County Ballot Audit
[BIGLEAGUEPOLITICS] Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has filed a legal brief to weaken an upcoming audit of suspect ballots in his latest peculiar move to stand in the way of electoral transparency.Activists with VoterGA have pushed to subject ballots in Fulton County, GA to a forensic audit. A judge has acquiesced to their demands, but Raffensperger is fighting to keep the ballots from being properly inspected. The amicus brief filed by Raffensperger’s office can be seen here.
Say what you want. At least he stays bought
"The Secretary respectfully requests that the Court permit Petitioners to inspect ballot images only, and deny Petitioners’ request to inspect and scan ballots," the brief states.

"Petitioners have submitted to the Court a proposed order granting their Motion to Unseal, which would grant Petitioners sweeping and unprecedented access to all ballots," the brief adds.

VoterGA claims that Raffensperger misrepresented their position in his amicus brief. They are also weary of Raffensperger’s request to provide the activists with only "ballot images" that are curated by the Secretary of State’s office, rather than the actual ballot itself.

"Ballots are then scanned through optical voting scanners selected and furnished by the State of Georgia pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 21-2-300. Once scanned, an electronic ballot image is created and stored on a memory card," the amicus brief explains.

Using ballot images rather than the ballots themselves, Raffensperger and his goons could potentially alter the ballot information and undermine the entire audit. Considering Raffensperger’s string of dishonorable and disreputable behavior since last year’s election, vote fraud whistleblowers are certainly wise for having these concerns.

Raffensperger believes that the common people must be kept in the dark with regards to these ballots, and only government babus bureaucrats — who tend to investigate themselves and find they have done nothing wrong — are qualified to inspect ballots and ensure their integrity.

"The Elections Code is furthermore clear that it is only authorized elections officials who are legally permitted to verify and tabulate ballots in an election," the amicus brief states.

"Moreover, the scanning and tabulation of ballots is only permitted under Georgia law to be conducted on the equipment selected and furnished by the State of Georgia," the brief continues.
Posted by Fred 2021-04-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ]  Top

#1 In the end, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona will be held up as "worst practices" in election mechanics.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-05 01:10||   2021-04-05 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, and, PeeAye, of course...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-05 01:14||   2021-04-05 01:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Nobody will bother pointing to New York or California, they’ll just leave.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-05 01:44||   2021-04-05 01:44|| Front Page Top

#4 The ballots were likely been destroyed long ago.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-05 01:49||   2021-04-05 01:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Clearly Kemp is in on it. Along with the national and local GOP. No recall but a wink and nod.

Our nation is completely gone.
Posted by Woodrow 2021-04-05 07:58||   2021-04-05 07:58|| Front Page Top

#6 I hope the forensic audit includes the signatures on the envelopes because I suspect that is the main place you'll find fraud.

Of course if they did have a Dominion software cheat that might show up in paper ballots that didn't exist (which might be part of Raffensperger's gambit to have them look at images that could easily be duplicated to match the necessary numbers).
Posted by rjschwarz 2021-04-05 10:18||   2021-04-05 10:18|| Front Page Top

#7 This is how you know that Raffensperger has something to hide. Maybe he's afraid he'll end up in jail.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-04-05 13:08||   2021-04-05 13:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Jay Valentine has been writing at American Thinker about fraud detection methods and tells in the private sector, and how that would apply to the past election. His back list can be explored here.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-05 13:50||   2021-04-05 13:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Why would Raffensperger want to undermine the audit process unless he is ear-deep in corruption and trying to cover it up?
Posted by JohnQC 2021-04-05 15:04||   2021-04-05 15:04|| Front Page Top

#10 

Quoting:
"The paper ballots have been sealed, and recent updates to the Georgia Open Records Act allow for the public disclosure for ballot images only (not ballots). In fact, we worked with the Georgia legislature to make sure ballot images could be made available for review."


I would say it was very convenient to have all those "RECENT" changes restricting access to the ACTUAL vote on a Paper Voted Ballot.

Look I worked in ITSEC and IT Forensics for many years. Images can be screwed with, adjusted, created, and etc.

eg.
AI GENERATED PEOPLE


Note: any Electronically printed and E-filled in Ballot is a hell of a lot easier to fake than a human face.

I have feeling he will be a 1 term GA. SOS and well rewarded in engineering contracts on leaving political office.
Posted by NN2N1  2021-04-05 15:08||   2021-04-05 15:08|| Front Page Top

#11 I have feeling he will be a 1 term GA. SOS and well rewarded in engineering contracts on leaving political office.
He'll be Abrams' Lt. Governor next election.
Posted by Glenmore 2021-04-05 20:01||   2021-04-05 20:01|| Front Page Top

#12 #6I hope the forensic audit includes the signatures

Sorry, never going to happen.
Posted by Woodrow 2021-04-05 20:51||   2021-04-05 20:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Ask a professional fraud detector -- a forensic accountant, an insurance expert, an computer scientist for PayPal or one of the eCommerce giants -- what he thinks of the likelihood the Democrats are enabling fraud on a mass scale.

Bet you $10k he tells you the chances of fraud happening with the "reforms" are close to 100%
Posted by Jiggs Thetle9406 2021-04-05 22:59||   2021-04-05 22:59|| Front Page Top

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