The Chairman of Georgia’s Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, Senator William T. Ligon, released the election law study report that saw 15 pages of summary of testimony from the December 3rd hearing. The subcommittee says its responsibility “was to examine the recent election cycle, the recount process, the audit process, the current investigations taking place, the litigation that is moving forward, as well as address issues relating to the upcoming runoffs.”
The report contains an executive summary, a summary of oral testimony from December 3rd, the committee’s findings, and the committee’s recommendations on fixing any issues found.
Disclaimer from the report: “This Report by the Subcommittee Chair has not been formally approved by the Subcommittee or the standing Judiciary Committee. It is submitted for informational purposes to be a part of the record at the request of the Judiciary Chair. It is a summary of testimony given in person and by affidavit.”
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The report calls the 2020 Presidential election “chaotic” and says that “any reported results must be viewed as untrustworthy.” The Subcommittee defends the report saying that all the evidence was “from witnesses” and that the subcommittee “received affidavits sworn under oath.”
The summary claims to have evidence that showed the chain of custody of the ballots was not kept, large numbers of fraudulent ballots “flooded” the counting process, pristine ballots whose origin looked suspicious or which could not be verified, the inability of poll workers to distinguish between test ballots and absentee ballots, and signatures were not consistently verified according to Georgia law.
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None of these allegations have been proven in a court of law and have not changed the 2020 Presidential election results in Georgia.
The Georgia subcommittee says regardless of the many government officials and agencies that claim the election was free of widespread fraud that “a great deal of testimony supported evidence of a coordinated effort to prevent a transparent process of observing the counting of ballots during the absentee ballot opening period and on Election Night.”
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Without the cooperation from the Secretary of State’s Office, “there was a lack of enforcement of the law, sloppy handling of the ballots by those counting, deliberate covering-up of voting numbers by workers, lack of following the process during the recount, unsafe handling of military ballots, and insecure data such as on laptops and flash drives.”
The report hammers the Secretary of State’s Office, saying it was “unresponsive to its hotline.” It says that the Secretary of State’s Office “has been unresponsive to many who wonder if their vote ever really counted. The office has turned a blind eye to fraud to the point that it ought to be considered gross negligence.”
About the Dominion voting machine allegations, the Subcommittee said that it “did not have time to investigate the numerous publicly reported issues with the Dominion voting machines” but that “the subcommittee takes notice of the various publicly reported functions of the machine and heard evidence that the machines can duplicate fraudulent ballots to the point that not even trained personnel can tell the difference between a test ballot and a real ballot.”
The report spoke about other allegations concerning Dominion that claim the machines “respond wirelessly to being reset from an unknown location;” “machines can be programmed with algorithms that reallocate votes between candidates;” “machines are programmed to count votes using percentages of whole numbers rather than actual votes, and the history and control of the company that owns the Dominion voting system is unclear and provides serious implications of foreign interference in the U.S. election.”
Dominion also came out swinging this weekend, sending several reporters and conservative media companies threats of litigation if they don’t stop allowing these allegations against their company to go aired unchecked. Dominion Voting Systems will have a chance to defend their company as their machines and/or software is currently tied up in several lawsuits from American citizens and the Trump campaign legal team.
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The Subcommittee’s recommendations range from requiring photo id and signature matching for absentee ballots to forensic audits of ballots and machines. As far as “rectifying the 2020 General Election results,” the subcommittee says that “the Legislature should carefully consider its obligations under the U.S. Constitution.” It recommends that if a “majority of the General Assembly concurs with the findings in this report, the certification of the Election should be rescinded, and the General Assembly should act to determine the proper Electors to be certified to the Electoral College in the 2020 presidential race.”
Although rare, it is not illegal for a state to send dueling electors like Georgia’s state did this year. The last time a dueling slate of electors was used was in the Kennedy V. Nixon race. After a recount, the original slate of electors for Nixon was cast aside, and only the slate of electors for Kennedy was counted.
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