It is widely reported nationally (although sparingly in most Georgia media) about dead Georgians voting. Consider just this one example of a growing number just discovered: Deborah Jean Christiansen of Roswell was registered to vote on October 5th and voted in the November 3rd general election. Yet she died in May 2019.
No wonder illegal voting is the subject of a healthy Georgia debate, especially since President Donald Trump (so far) is behind Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden by just a thin 14,000-vote margin statewide. And then there’s the announcement by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that there will be a vote recount. But more about that later.
Let’s start with something that political consultant and pollster Mark Rountree addressed before a Buckhead Republicans meeting on Monday night. “There could be as many as 50,000 votes cast that will get a review in an official audit,” he estimated. Rountree continued that the starting place for determining the legality of out-of-state voters is the national change of address list provided by the Postal Service. That should result in the kicking out of illegal voters. He also noted, as InsiderAdvantage has previously, that the Secretary of State’s office has been also pressured to check the state list of felons to see how many voted but have not paid their fines (which would make those votes illegal).
Lists will also be checked and rechecked to make sure voters have not “double voted.” Double voting happens when someone votes from two different addresses, or when they vote by absentee as well as in person. In the June primary, at least 2,000 votes were thrown out for double voting. Of course, the state will now be checking to identify how many dead people like Deborah Jean Christiansen “voted.” And, hopefully, those who who committed the crime will be identified can be prosecuted and convicted to the full extent of the law.
Voter recount problems
As for Secretary Raffensperger’s “statewide hand recount of every ballot,” this will be as time-consuming as it is problematic. Yes, the paper ballots can be used for a recount. However, a full “manual” recount cannot occur for voting machine ballots cast on the ballot marking devices. Why? Because they encode the votes in a QR Code that is not human readable. The scanners are reading the QR code. That can only mean one thing: Those ballots are un-auditable because you have no human readable method of determining whether the voters’ intended votes are accurately reflected in the QR Code. And as has been pointed out in expert federal court testimony involving whether there should be a return to an all-paper-ballot system, the scanners are hackable to flip votes.
One prominent Georgia attorney writes to InsiderAdvantage: “When Rep. Doug Collins goes on TV and says ‘we (the Trump campaign) are demanding a full manual recount’ it’s BS because it’s impossible.”
“Now, maybe he is saying that to prepare the battlefield for a later display of incredulous outrage: What do you mean these ballots cannot be manually recounted?! This election on these un-auditable ballots that cannot be manually recounted cannot be trusted– and must be thrown out.”
