Georgia citizen Joe Rossi finally got the attention of the State Elections Board. His work and persistence dates to after the 2020 Election, when a Risk Limiting Audit (RLA) was carried out by the Secretary of State’s office. Rossi closely examined it and found 36 errors in the Fulton County data in the RLA report posted on the Secretary of State’s website.
After that, Rossi starting pressing authorities to review his data and was at first ignored. Finally, Rossi was able to show the errors to staffers in Gov. Brian Kemp’s office. After a Kemp probe, the State Elections Board initiated an investigation (labelled SEB2021-181) into the data from the RLA report.
Eventually the SEB identified violations and errors in the county’s 2020 election results.
Another complaint related to Fulton County was filed that specifically called out 3,125 duplicate ballot counts, as well as 17,852 votes counted without corresponding ballot images. Roosi contended these ballots should never have been included in the election count— and that’s what triggered the creation of investigation SEB2023-25.
This investigation is now complete, and the results will be presented to the State Elections Board on May 7— all according to a letter from the panel received by Rossi.
This complaint has been categorized by the Board as “violations found.” Isn’t that interesting, since most of the mainstream media has said for several years no violations of the law were found. It now appears that despite numerous issues that should have prevented the 2020 election from being certified, the election was certified anyway by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
By the way, note that these investigations were independent of two court cases that occurred in Georgia after the 2020 election. Also note that Fulton County and others in the state are still preventing access to see these ballot violations even though the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that the plaintiffs have the right to audit allegedly fraudulent ballots.
Since being notified of the second investigation classified as “violations found,” Rossi requested that the No. 2 person in the Secretary of State’s office, Gabriel Sterling, provide an explanation for his comments that there were no issues in the 2020 Election in Georgia. After a long wait, Rossi says he still hasn’t heard back from him.
So the May 7 State Elections Board meeting should be very interesting. Critics are asking that, since the board finally found violations of the law, what will the punishment be? What body will administer it? And who would be punished, if anyone?
