Now Georgia county admits its 2020 election results were corrupted

President Donald Trump long has charged that the Fulton County, Georgia, 2020 presidential election results were corrupted.

He has been smashed, bashed and criticized, even charged with a crime, for talking to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger at the time and asking him to “find” 11,780 votes, which would give Trump a victory over Joe Biden in the state.

That phone call was part of the “evidence” in local prosecutor Fani Willis’ failed organized crime case against Trump and others.

Now, it turns out, Trump was right.

A report at the Federalist explains that county officials have admitted that about 315,000 early ballots cast in the race “were unlawfully certified yet were nonetheless included in Georgia’s final, official results.”

That race was “won” by Biden by just 11,779 votes.

“The admission arose from a challenge filed by David Cross, an election integrity activist, who alleged that Fulton County violated Georgia election law in its handling of early voting. Under state statute, each ballot scanner is required to produce tabulation tapes at the close of voting, and poll workers must sign those tapes to certify the reported totals. These signed tapes are not merely an administrative safeguard. They are central to determining whether the vote count itself is legitimate,” the Federalist explained.

The tapes confirm that each machine began its total starting at zero, without nothing left over from a prior election, or from a test run.

“Without signed tabulation tapes, there is no verifiable starting point and no verifiable endpoint. In legal terms, there is no verified election result,” the report confirmed.

Those hundreds of thousands of votes never were certified, yet counted toward Biden’s victory.

Raffensperger, the report said, “had a duty to ensure the results were properly certified and above board. Yet his office accepted Fulton County’s numbers on trust and included them in Georgia’s official results without verifying that the required procedures had been followed,” the Federalist said.

Trump protested in the aftermath of the 2020 election, which also was under two undue influence factors: the first being Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to hand out hundreds of millions of dollars to local elections officials who often used it to recruit voters in Democrat districts.

The second was the FBI’s decision to interfere in the election by delivering a message to American voters that the scandals found in a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden were a Russian disinformation scheme, even though officials at the bureau knew the details were factual.

Trump had told Raffensperger at the time that there were estimates of 250,000 to 300,000 ballots that were dropped “mysteriously” into the count. He specifically said Fulton County’s results never had been “checked.”

“In light of what has now been formally admitted, those claims read less like hyperbole and more like an uncannily accurate description of what actually occurred,” the Federalist reported.

Raffensperger at the time insisted the count was accurate.

Further, the report charged, Raffensperger’s aide, Jordan Fuchs, illegally recorded the telephone conversation and released it to the media where it was framed as Trump expressing a desire to “manufacture” votes instead of identifying the unlawful votes.

Democrats jumped and even to this day claim that Trump was trying to criminally overturn their election victory.

“Trump was not inventing problems out of thin air. He was pointing, imperfectly but insistently, to a fundamental failure to follow even the most basic rules of how elections are conducted,” the report said. “But even as the man accused of attacking democracy for questioning the process has now been vindicated on a central factual point, the people and institutions that failed to follow the law have faced no consequences.”

The report said Cross has asked the State Election Board to decertify Fulton County’s 2020 advanced voting results for the historical record.

The report said nothing can undo Joe Biden’s years in the White House. “But an official acknowledgment that Fulton County’s vote certification, and by extension the Georgia outcome, was invalid would place a permanent mark on the deliberate misconduct of those responsible and the institutional failure that enabled it, while reinforcing the principle that election law is not optional.”