Claim via Social Media (Bongino Inc):
A viral meme claims that because Fulton County admitted more than 315,000 votes were associated with unsigned tabulator tapes, Georgia “admitted” those votes were illegally counted and that the 2020 election result was invalid.
Explanation:
This claim is false. Fulton County acknowledged that more than 130 tabulator tapes from early in-person voting in the 2020 election were unsigned, a violation of Georgia election rules, not statutes. As reported by NewsFactsNetwork and 11Alive, state and county officials stressed this was a procedural documentation error, not evidence of illegal votes, altered totals, or missing ballots.
The unsigned tapes covered more than 315,000 ballots, but tabulator tapes are supplemental records, not the official vote count. Votes were recorded through multiple redundant systems, including encrypted memory cards, centralized tabulation, audits, and recounts. Georgia conducted a full statewide hand recount and subsequent machine recounts, all of which confirmed President Biden’s 11,779-vote victory.
Georgia law requires counties to certify election results even when procedural errors occur, a position upheld by courts and reinforced by the Georgia Court of Appeals, as reported by AP News. The State Election Board referred the matter to the Attorney General for possible administrative sanctions, not to invalidate votes.
Conclusion:
Fact or Fiction? Fiction. Fulton County did not admit to 315,000 illegal votes. The issue involved unsigned paperwork, not unlawful ballots or a changed election outcome.
There were 315k uncertified votes counted in Fulton County. This Democrat propaganda outlet might dance around that fact, but the truth is that absent the required signatures, these votes could have originated anywhere. We need to do away with the secret ballot. Democrats, as with all things they touch, have corrupted and abused a system designed to protect the people from the government to, instead, deceive and defraud to protect the government from the people.
“FUCK” and “YOU” LIAR!!! (Translation….We cheated, and got away with it. So that makes it ok!……Fuck you pond scum!
Wrong. These tapes are backups of already certified votes. This is a procedural issue, not an electoral one. The votes are counted before they get to this storage process. Nice try, though.