Last Week the FBI executed a search warrant at the Fulton County Election Office. About 700 boxes of ballots were seized along with voter rolls, voting machine tapes, absentee ballot envelopes, and other documents and evidence from the 2020 Presidential election.
I wondered just what kind of evidence of what kind of crime the FBI had in mind when they searched the facilities. I thought a Goggle search would easily show the search warrant but I was wrong.
The search warrant was mentioned in many news reports but I could not find a copy of the search warrant itself. Finally I found a copy of the search warrant on Facebook posted by Mark Davis on January 29. I have attached a copy of the warrant at the end of this article.
Apparently the affidavit and the warrant were sealed. Fulton County filed action in federal court to order the return of the items and had to enter the search warrant itself as evidence which effectively unsealed the warrant. The affidavit which gave justification for the search to the judge signing the warrant is still under seal.
Attachment B lists the items for which the FBI was searching. It includes:
* All physical ballots from the 2020 General Election in Fulton County; including, but not limited to: absentee ballots to include envelopes; advanced voting ballots, provisional ballots; in-person election day ballots; emergency ballots; damaged or destroyed ballots; duplicated ballots; or any other ballot that was used to cast a vote;
* All tabulator tapes for every voting machine used in Fulton County; including but not limited to; zero tapes, opening tapes, closing tapes and any other tabulator tape printed from a voting machine utilized during the 2020 General Election in Fulton County;
* All ballot images produced during the original ballot count beginning on November 3, 2020, the recount, and any other ballot images that were created from ballot scanning from the 2020 General Election in Fulton County;
* All voter rolls from the 2020 General Election in Fulton County from absentee, early voting, in person, and any other voter roll that indicates voters: to whom an absentee ballot was issued, from whom an absentee ballot was received, or who participated in advance voting or election day voting.
This is an extensive list. I can understand the reports of 700 boxes carted out to the awaiting vehicles.
Democrats exploded with rage over the search warrant. Secretary of State Raffensperger continues with his mantra that Georgia has the most secure elections in the country and that there were three recounts that proved Joe Biden won.
My issue with the recounts is that all they were doing was counting the same ballots over and over. The count wasn’t the problem.
My question points more toward the reconciliation of votes cast to the absentee ballot envelopes and voter sign-in sheets. In other words, were the ballot boxes “stuffed” with fraudulent ballots. In a mere recount, a fraudulent ballot would be counted the same as a valid ballot.
I remember that Suzi Voyles, one of the recount observers, raised an issue over seeing multiple ballots in unfolded, pristine condition, with the ballot marking appearing to be the same image on every ballot. The process should have been halted then and there to have a closer examination of the ballots to determine if they were original ballots or not. That did not happen so now those questioned ballots are somewhere in one of those 700 boxes of ballots.
The issue of Fulton County handling of the 2020 election was put under the spotlight last December when the Georgia Elections Board finally considered a complaint that was originally filed with the Secretary of State in 2022. One can only imagine why Secretary Raffensperger’s office took nearly three years to bring the complaint before the State Elections Board.
In this case, Fulton County admitted to certifying 315,000 early vote ballots without signatures on the machine tapes. The response from Raffensperger’s office was the same claim that Georgia has the most secure elections in the country. He brushed off the unsigned tapes as a clerical error.
Irregularities such as the ones reported shout for a thorough, trusted, impartial review. Based on the items secured, the FBI search will be looking at all aspects of the 2020 ballot handling to include the proper documentation of ballot handling. They rightly should make a thorough accounting and reconciliation.
I look forward to learning the results of the search. Hopefully it won’t be another five years.
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