Elections official Mariska Bodison of Fulton County, which is Georgia’s most populous county, has admitted that chain of custody documents are missing for 2020 absentee ballots deposited in drop boxes. An open records request from the Georgia Star News showed that 385 transfer forms out of an estimated 1,565 transfer forms are missing. It also says Fulton County has refused to provide digital images of 1,180 transfer forms.
As far as insiderAdvantage can determine, this is the first time an elections official in Georgia has made such a significant admission of electoral malpractice. This revelation is also important because the total number of absentee ballots whose chain of custody was purportedly documented in these 385 missing absentee ballot transfer forms was 18,901– over 6,000 votes greater than the less than 12,000 vote margin of Joe Biden’s certified presidential victory in Georgia.
Furthermore, as this media outlet reminds us, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has taken no action in 156 of Georgia’s 159 counties to secure copies of any absentee ballot drop box transfer forms and review them for accuracy and consistency with reported absentee ballot vote counts. In April his office said it would probe three small counties that “failed to do their absentee ballot transfer forms” in the November 2020 election in compliance with rules and regulations. But so far nothing has apparently occurred.
By the way, these absentee ballots are central to a lawsuit filed by elections watchdog Garland Favorito and other plaintiffs who are suing Fulton County to turn over these ballots for a forensic audit that a judge has allowed. Steve Bannon, one-time advisor to former President Donald Trump, comments that the missing Fulton County paperwork admission demonstrates that they stuffed the ballot box but do not have the receipts to cover the stuffed ballots.
