Last month, The Gateway Pundit reported that Judge Robert McBurney had ruled that the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections (BRE) was required to comply with a subpoena from the Georgia State Election Board that seeks access to physical records from the 2020 election.
In the ruling, Judge McBurney required the BRE to submit a proposal outlining costs to process the documents requested by the subpoena.
On January 7th, the Director of Registrations Nadine Williams filed the proposal. It notes that the Director of Registrations and Elections (DRE) would have to search through “700+ boxes of 2020 election materials.” Those records would include “copies of the opening and closing scanner tapes for each ballot scanner used.”
It would also seek:
- Poll pad recap sheets for each precinct
- Absentee ballot recap sheets
- Numbered list of voters and return sheets
- Chain of Custody forms and related reconciliation reports
- documents reflecting the security seals required for storage and transportation
- daily recap sheets prepared at the end of each day for advance in-person-polling place scanners
- Digitized copies of the absentee ballot oath envelopes
The proposal estimates it would take 15 weeks of work with one supervisor and 15 “temporary DRE workers” working 40-hour weeks, costing $281,800 among other costs such as $43,500 to copy absentee ballot envelopes.
In total, DRE Director Nadine Williams estimates it will cost $435,510.
The Georgia State Election Board has supervisory authority over elections throughout the state. This includes ensuring uniformity, legality, and integrity in the election practices. But only if they pay $435,510 to the county apparently, despite the numerous failures and violations of code that have already been discovered through open records, SEB complaints, and litigation in Fulton County’s administration of the 2020 election.
You can read the affidavit outlining the costs here:
Problems Fulton County Could Face
Some of the documents Fulton County has included in its estimate could raise a problem. Some of them reportedly don’t exist.
The Gateway Pundit reported previously that former BRE member Mark Wingate testified under oath in the disbarment hearing of President Trump’s former Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Clark that many of these documents don’t exist.
For example, Wingate testified that Fulton County did not perform signature verification because the county’s brand-new BlueCrest Sorter machines were not functional. Had the machines been functioning properly, the absentee ballot envelopes would have already been imaged. Because these machines were not functional, this is also why signature verification was allegedly not performed.
THERE IT IS.
Testimony today, under oath, from Fulton County Registrations and Elections Board Member Mark Wingate.
Fani Willis now KNOWS that NO signature verification was done in Fulton. That 147,000 ballots that, BY LAW, are invalid.
This influence NOT JUST THE… pic.twitter.com/4J8KwAVi8V
— CannCon (@CannConActual) April 2, 2024
Further, Wingate also testified that he was denied “even a sampling…anything at all…with regards to chain of custody documents” prior to him certifying the 2020 election.
Fulton Co not only wouldn’t provide chain of custody documents to citizens for transparency, but they WOULDNT PROVIDE IT TO THEIR OWN CERTIFYING BOARD.
Like I said months ago: Fani is ABSOLUTELY prosecuting the wrong people on the wrong side of this.
Fulton County was flat… https://t.co/fCmeYSNw42 pic.twitter.com/EKrniYB5f8
— CannCon (@CannConActual) April 2, 2024
Another hurdle Fulton County will have to overcome is providing “copies of the opening and closing scanner tapes.”
The Gateway Pundit reported last month that, in addition to the signatures missing on poll tapes accounting for 315,000 advance in-person ballots, the poll opening and closing tapes are either non-existent or “completely faded.”
Of the 148 poll opening tapes requested, only 9 out of 148 were provided, despite follow-ups requesting the remaining documents.
Regarding the poll closing tapes, almost all were provided in a previous records request, however, they were created on just 16 tabulators at a central count location, rather than on the 148 tabulators the ballots were scanned on, as required by Georgia election code.
There is still the matter of the 10 remaining closing tapes from tabulators that Fulton County cannot prove exist. That is subject to the ongoing SEB Complaint 2023-025.
Georgia election code requires that the poll closing tapes be printed on the tabulator used to scan the ballots. This is not what Fulton County did. Instead, they removed the memory cards from the precinct tabulators and closed the polls on just 16 tabulators at the warehouse that employed more than 10 Dominion contractors during that period.
As you may recall, those poll closing tapes did not have any of the three required signatures from the poll manager and two witnesses. Despite that discovery, the individual who requested those documents, David Cross, was charged $15,000 to obtain records that demonstrated Fulton County’s noncompliance.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars, perhaps millions, have been exhausted attempting to gain access to these records, mainly the physical paper ballots that we are always told are the definitive validation that the election was run accurately. These legal challenges includes VoterGa.org’s lawsuit from 2021 that went all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court to validate whether the plaintiff had standing. Since its success in the State’s highest court, it has been almost 1,100 days without a hearing.
It also includes decisions to retain outside counsel to challenge the State Election Board’s subpoenas, as well as actions involving Dr. Jan Johnston, a member of the Board. That decision was made exclusively by the Chairwoman of the BRE and Director of the DRE without a vote from the Board.
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