T. Belman. This article is very unclear so read, Georgia governor calls for audit after state certifies election results
BY November 20, 2020
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Friday urged the state’s top election official to conduct an audit of the signatures on ballot envelopes.
Gwinnett County election workers handle ballots as part of the recount for the 2020 presidential election at the Beauty P. Baldwin Voter Registrations and Elections Building in Lawrenceville, Ga., on Nov. 16, 2020. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)
Kemp, a Republican, made the remarks during a press conference during which he signaled that he would sign off on the certification of the election results after the Peach State conducted a risk-limiting audit of the presidential election which showed Democratic nominee Joe Biden ahead of President Donald Trump by 12,284 votes.
“It’s important to note that this audit only looked at ballots, not the signatures of the absentee applications or the signatures on the ballot envelopes,” Kemp said, adding that he would encourage Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to address concerns about the signatures.
“It seems simple enough to conduct a sample audit of signatures on the absentee ballot envelopes and compare those to the signatures on applications and on file at the secretary of state’s office.”
The risk-limiting audit, which has been referred to as a hand recount, turned up thousands of uncounted votes in four counties. More than a dozen witnesses of the recount signed sworn affidavits attesting to errors and potential fraud, including Trump votes which were counted for Biden and suspicious batches of pristine, uncreased, and uniformly filled absentee ballots.
Both mail-in ballots and provisional ballots voted in person are folded before being placed into a privacy envelope, making the absence of any creases odd. The odd batches were overwhelmingly for Biden. On one occasion, more auditors counted more than 500 of the pristine ballots in a row for the former vice president.
Trump and his campaign have repeatedly complained that the risk-limiting audit was meaningless without an examination of the signatures on the ballot envelopes.
“The Governor of Georgia, and Secretary of State, refuse to let us look at signatures which would expose hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots, and give the Republican Party and me, David Perdue, and perhaps Kelly Loeffler, a BIG VICTORY,” the president wrote on Twitter on Nov. 20. “Why won’t they do it, and why are they so fast to certify a meaningless tally?”
During the brief announcement on Friday, Kemp said that the certification of the election results opens new paths for the Trump campaign, including a recount.
A day prior to Kemp’s announcement, a Georgia federal judge denied a motion to block the certification, which was brought as part of a lawsuit by Lin Wood, an attorney with the Trump campaign. Rudy Giuliani, the head of Trump’s post-election legal effort, said on Thursday that the Trump campaign planned to file a lawsuit in Georgia on Friday.
Raffensperger’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
The risk-limiting audit shrunk Biden’s lead in the Peach State by 496 votes. Three of the four batches of uncounted votes discovered during the audit contained more votes for Trump than Biden.
@ Edgar G.:
I lived through two 7.0 earthquakes, while your case was being litigated — meaning, perhaps, that the earth’s tectonic plates move faster than the courts.
Moore’s Law says computers essentially double in sophistication ever two years — or 8X every US Presidential Election cycle. If the system is essentially out of control in 2020, imagine what it will be like in 2024.
These lawyers would have nothing to gain and their very considerable reputations to lose by falsely claiming they have proof of these allegations . These allegations are significant but are only civil, and not criminal, charges. The charges, therefore, need only be proven “by a preponderance of evidence” as opposed to the level of “beyond a reasonable doubt” that would be required in a criminal case. They are not law enforcement agents, so criminal charges should be handled elsewhere by the respective parties. They only need to show that the charges are credible and likely to have occurred. From what I have seen and heard so far, I think they will be successful in this. I am very surprised by Gov. Kemp’s lack of involvement thus far in his own state. The fact that he has decided to investigate the situation after the Secretary of State and he both certified the election results is very disturbing. There are significant and shocking allegations that would undermine the certification, if true. I think the time to investigate should be a priority, kind of like horse followed by cart rather than cart followed by horse as someone stated elsewhere.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/11/21/trump-lawyers-pennsylvania-lawsuit-dismissal-moves-us-closer-to-supreme-court/
@ Michael S:
Yes Michael you are correct. There were also some which were filed merely to keep the matter in play, to give the major hitters more time to assemble their REAL evidence. The legal formalities are stupid to us, and time wasting as well, I concluded a case a few years ago that began in 1977…it lasted over 30 years-an Irish record I think.. Another “Tichbourne” case except that I wasn’t a missing heir.. This was mostly because I was in Canada and the case occurred in Ireland, and was crawling through the Irish courts…..with lots of pit stops for liquid refreshment (on my money) no doubt.
The most recent developments can be seen on youtube, although a swarm of suddenly appearing “bootleg” sites, all supposed “experts”, but mostly parroting what Giuliani and Powell have been detailing. Giuliani has also begun which I saw for the first time this morning. a show called “Rudy-Commonsense”. VERY informative. He’s a great actor no doubt, regardless of the fact that what he says is hard evidence sufficient for court.
What surprised me was that he was also advertising products on it, like a certain cigar, for instance. Maybe raising money for the lawyers. I think this is silly, I mean “cigars” when the top high profile talk-host Rush Limbaugh, who used to luxuriate in his addiction for cigars, and would discourse learnedly about competing brands, and the one(s) he favoured, is now struggling with very serious lung cancer, poor fellow.
@ Bear Klein:
It is about winning the WAR and not battles!
Why now?
@ Bear Klein:
Bear, I think the lawsuit and appeal process hasn’t even begun. Those suits before federal courts were formalities — judges were Democrat, elected officials controlled by the party machines. The president’s people had to go to them first, before appealing to higher, more fair courts.
I had a friend, who was suing on behalf of his mother who had been cheated. The suit dragged on for years, but he finally got justice. Following court cases is much, much slower than anything I can think of. Maybe waiting for earthquakes is in the same category.
Let us see what happens because in-spite of Trumps people telling of the horror shows of the election process so far they have lost every contested situation whether in courts or state counts. Yes, it is not over until it is over, I also read Yogi Berra.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/georgia-lawsuit-jordan-sekulow-constitution/2020/11/21/id/998154/