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ince the 2020
presidential election I’ve consistently stated that,
while the election
may have experienced fraud, it
would never be
quantified. I still don’t believe it will.
But if I am wrong, I will debunk my
own statement.
One reason I could have to
correct myself is if the U.S. Department of Justice can get its hands on
the state’s complete voters list that
existed during the 2020 election, and
can use its vast resources to see how
many improper voters were on that
list who voted. That would be telling.
I know that issue has allegedly been
debunked but data experts I consider the best in Georgia tell me the list
was full of voters who should not
have been voting!
I asked someone I consider the
absolute best how many votes? The
answer: 80,000. Wow! Did not expect
that answer.
But verifying that is a long shot.
And no need to debunk it because it
is just a theory. November 2020 was
a tsunami of onetime crazy things
which showered the state with
ballots coming from every direction—
along with ballot harvesting whose
legality at that time was less clear.
As someone who has publicly
polled Georgia more than any other
pollster (my good friends at Landmark and Rosetta Stone are close,
but I’m just too damn old for them
to equal my years) I have some
standing on this issue. As a member of the State Bar of Georgia who
tried a few bigtime cases years ago,
I have a decent understanding of
the legal matters. And as a guy who
grew up in Georgia politics, held
office, ran campaigns, participated
in recounts and fought it out in the
trenches for decades, I think I’ve
earned the right to write this.
Very Little Debunked
The media and fact checkers
state as absolute “fact” that all issues
related to the 2020 presidential election in Georgia were decided and all
allegations of fraud, mainly in Fulton
County, have been debunked. While
it’s true expansive fraud may never
be established, let’s be clear: Very
little was ever debunked!
Endless media reports note
that Georgia had several recounts.
But everyone who knows Georgia’s
electronic voting system knows that
recounts are basically “garbage in,
garbage out” efforts. If ballots are
fraudulent, they won’t be picked up
in the recount process. In small races, with few voters, they can make a
difference. But in a statewide presidential race? Give me a break. Using
recounts as a defense just shows
political immaturity.
Let’s also talk about audits.
There was never a full Fulton County
audit that was the source of controversy. In fact, there was never a full
audit of the statewide vote. Period.
Georgia conducted what is known
as an “RLA” audit. (Bet you haven’t
seen that mentioned by the “fact
checkers”?) It was a statistical sampling of the vote that was very small
The professor at the University of
California-Berkeley who invented the
RLA audit said the process in Georgia was fundamentally flawed. Bet
you have not read that by those who
so loudly touted that audit.
Also never refuted was a consent
agreement, entered in a lawsuit between various Democratic interests
against the state in which the state
agreed to allow a third-party handwriting expert, to be chosen by those
Democratic interests, to help various
state counties determine which absentee voter signatures were valid.
Does that mean there was
fraud? No, just one-sided. Yet when
a county like Fulton has to hand
determine the validity of the signatures on envelopes for a flood of
mail in-ballots, there would be a lot
of scrutiny regardless. For those
who have polled and reported on
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