Former President Donald Trump yesterday posted a statement saying: “BREAKING: Alarm Went Off at Secure Building in Fulton County Georgia Where Ballots Are Kept – Building Found Wide Open.” That is accurate in that the entrance was left unlocked and “wide open” as confirmed to this writer by Fulton Sheriff Pat Labat. But the sheriff went to the scene and gave a further reassuring update.
Labat told me that a second door to the room in the downtown Atlanta building where the ballots are actually stored was locked. “The room where they are kept had a locked door … and the ballots are secure,” he said.
Labat further said that more deputies have been assigned for building security and that surveillance cameras were to be installed. He confirmed that no one was initially guarding the front entrance, which was discovered by off-duty state troopers hired by plaintiffs in a court case where a judge ordered an audit of 2020 presidential election absentee ballots in Georgia’s most populous county.
The county is beginning a process to unseal more than 145,000 absentee ballots to be audited for fraud, which stems from a lawsuit filed by election watchdog Garland Favorito and other plaintiffs. Inconsistencies in Fulton County’s November 2020 absentee ballots cast serious doubt on voters’ faith in Georgia’s elections, and remember that now-President Joe Biden only edged incumbent Trump by 11,799 votes.
Trump, in his Sunday statement, said: “Great work is being done in Georgia revealing the election fraud of the 2020 Presidential Election. But, we must not allow ANYONE to compromise these ballots by leaving the building unsecured, which was done late Friday. Republicans and Patriots must protect this site and the absentee ballots. The Left talks about election security but they do not practice what they preach because they are afraid of what might be found. Fulton County leadership— do the right thing and protect these ballots.”
