Board Refuses To Have Fulton County Investigated For Double-Scanning 3,000 Ballots In 2020 Recount

[rebelmouse-proxy-image https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-09-at-5.28.23 PM-1200x675.png crop_info="%7B%22image%22%3A%20%22https%3A//thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-09-at-5.28.23%5Cu202fPM-1200x675.png%22%7D" expand=1]The Georgia Election Board chided Fulton County for breaking the law in 2020 but stopped short of referring the case for more investigation.

In Georgia And Elsewhere, Officials Sow Distrust In Elections By Dismissing Voters’ Integrity Concerns

Curling v. Raffensperger points to a growing lack of confidence in elections that stretches beyond Georgia and party lines.

Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood — who helped lead the accusations of massive voter fraud in the 2020 election — is under investigation for voter fraud



Attorney Lin Wood is under investigation by Georgia officials for potential voter fraud, according to a Tuesday night report from NBC News.

Wood was one of former President Donald Trump's biggest advocates in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election based on accusations of massive voter fraud.

The embattled attorney recently said that he has been living in South Carolina for the last several months.

What are the details?

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office confirmed the investigation in a statement to the network.

"The question is whether [Wood] was a legal resident when he voted in November in light of an email he sent to [WSB-TV reporter] Justin Gray saying he has been domiciled in South Carolina for several months," the statement explained. "The investigation is ongoing."

The secretary of state's office added that "if a person removes to another state with the intention of making it such person's residence, such person shall be considered to have lost such person's residence in this state" — which would have made Wood ineligible to vote in Georgia if he were living in South Carolina during early voting.

On Tuesday night, Wood responded to the news and in a statement of his own announced, "I was domiciled in Atlanta in October of 2020 and was a resident of Georgia at that time. I have been a resident of Georgia since 1955."

"I own properties in Georgia and South Carolina," Wood's statement added. "I changed my resident to South Carolina on February 1, 2021."

What else?

On Wednesday, NPR reported that Wood took to the social media site Telegram on Monday, revealing that he was leaving Georgia and changing his permanent residency to South Carolina after insisting Georgia "falsely accused me and shunned me."

"After news of the investigation broke, Wood wrote that he only became a South Carolina resident as of Feb. 1 and called Raffensperger a 'loser' who 'is going to jail,'" NPR's Stephen Fowler reported.

"Now, his posts on Telegram are under scrutiny as officials seek to determine if one of the loudest voices alleging election fraud committed a crime himself," Fowler added. "Georgia state code 21-2-217 (a) (5) says that if a person moves to another state 'with the intention of remaining there an indefinite time and making such state the person's place of residence' then they are no longer considered eligible to vote in Georgia."

State investigators will now determine if Wood lived in South Carolina or in Georgia when he voted early in person for the November presidential election

Georgia secretary of state announces signature match audit of ballots in Cobb County after claims of voter fraud



Georgia's secretary of state announced an audit of signature matching for ballots in Cobb County after claims of voter fraud.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a media briefing Monday that he ordered the audit in order to restore Georgians' faith in the election.

"As a conservative Constitutional Republican, I believe the best place to land is when judgements are made based on the Constitution. My goal is to make our elections accurate and secure, and believed by the voters," Raffensperger said.

He added that his office has alerted counties since January that the election processes have been open to public review, but that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans "availed themselves of this legal viewing of our election processes."

Raffensperger said that there had been no evidence of fraud in the signature matching system.

"And now that the signature matching has been attacked again and again, with no evidence, I feel we need to take steps to restore confidence in our elections," he continued.

He went on to say that he would be working on a "third party signature match statewide audit study" developed with a credited university.

He also tweeted about the decision from his official social media account.

Our office will be partnering with @GBI_GA to conduct a signature match audit in Cobb County following specific rep… https://t.co/nAZ5ieAYYR
— GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (@GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger)1607983181.0

"Our office will be partnering with [the Georgia Bureau of Investigation] to conduct a signature match audit in Cobb County following specific reports that the county failed to adequately conduct signature matching. This audit will take around two weeks but will not change the outcome of the November elections," he tweeted.

"We will also be working with an accredited university on a third-party signature match statewide audit study. Together, we will restore faith." he added in a second tweet.

New: Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says the state will conduct a limited signature match audit in Cobb Coun… https://t.co/D7FzcuF0Vn
— Greg Bluestein (@Greg Bluestein)1607973831.0

In November, Raffensperger said that he had been calling out officials who were making false accusations of voter fraud, and he specifically explained how he had strengthened signature match for the election.

"On signature match, we've actually strengthened signature match. Many people don't realize that it requires you to do your signature twice, once for the application, we signature match then, and a second time when your ballot comes back in, then we'll signature match that," he said during an interview on MSNBC.

Electors of the Electoral College voted to confirm Joe Biden's presidential victory on Monday, but President Donald Trump was still challenging those results through legal action.

Here's the announcement from Raffensperger:

Georgia secretary of state announces Cobb County signature auditwww.youtube.com

Georgia secretary of state announces 250 investigations into ‘credible’ claims of fraud connected to the ​2020 election



Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced during a press conference Monday that his office is currently investigating more than 250 claims of fraud related to the 2020 election.

"As we move forward in the process, we will, as we always have been, we will continue to investigate credible claims of illegal voting and violation of state election law," the secretary of state told reporters at the state capitol building. "There are currently over 250 open cases from 2020 and we have 23 investigators to follow up on that. Some of these include, a charge Gwinnett County that absentee ballots outnumber absentee envelopes. This is the kind of specific charge that our office can investigate and ascertain the truth."

"We have multiple investigations underway surrounding absentee ballots in Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb, and many others. We continue our investigations into potential dead, double voters, and non-resident voters," he continued. "As we move to the December 1 election, which is tomorrow, and the January 5 federal runoffs, we have to remain vigilant."

Even as the secretary of state announced the investigations, he again defended the security of the election, complaining that "dishonest actors" have been spreading "massive amounts of misinformation."

In what appeared to be an indirect reference to President Trump's legal team, Raffensperger noted, "There are those who are exploiting the emotions of many Trump supporters with fantastic claims, half truths, misinformation, and frankly, they are misleading the president as well."

The secretary of state's office in Georgia has maintained that there has been no evidence of widespread election fraud in the state. Georgia's statewide voting implementation manager, Gabriel Sterling, said Tuesday that officials do not expect any of the investigations will result in the overturning of the election.

Democratic nominee Joe Biden currently leads Trump by just under 13,000 votes in the state, and last week Raffensperger officially certified the election results, declaring Biden the winner of the state's 16 Electoral College votes.

The Trump campaign has not conceded the state, however, but instead requested that another recount be conducted. That recount is currently under way and is expected to be completed by Wednesday.

During another press conference Tuesday, a frustrated Raffensperger informed reporters that Fulton County, home to Atlanta, is to blame for delays in the recounting process. He said election workers in the county continue to make decisions that are "concerning" and said it appears the county wants to make it a "dramatic finish," turning in results just in time for the deadline.

Further raising suspicion, on Monday, news broke that a Dominion voting machine server crashed in the county for an unspecified reason.