Adding to suspicions, she noticed that all of the ballots were printed on different stock paper than the others she handled as part of a statewide hand\u00a0recount of the razor-thin Nov. 3 presidential election. And none was folded or creased, as she typically observed in mail-in ballots that had been\u00a0removed from envelopes.<\/p>\n In short, the Biden votes looked like they\u2019d been duplicated by a copying machine.<\/p>\n \u201cAll of them were strangely pristine,”\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>said Voyles, who said she\u2019d never seen anything like it in her 20 years monitoring elections in Fulton County,\u00a0which includes much of Atlanta.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n She wasn\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n At least three other poll workers observed the same thing in stacks of absentee ballots for Biden processed by the county, and\u00a0they have joined Voyles in swearing under penalty of perjury that they looked fake.<\/strong><\/p>\n Now\u00a0election watchdogs have used their affidavits to\u00a0help convince a state judge to unseal all of the 147,000 mail-in ballots counted in Fulton and\u00a0allow a closer inspection of the suspicious Biden ballots for evidence of counterfeiting. They argue that potentially tens of thousands may\u00a0have been\u00a0manufactured in a race that Biden won by just 12,000 votes thanks to a late surge of mail-in ballots counted after election monitors were shooed\u00a0from State Farm Arena in Atlanta.<\/p>\n “We have what is almost surely major absentee-ballot fraud in Fulton County involving 10,000 to 20,000 probably false ballots,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>said Garland\u00a0Favorito, the lead petitioner in the case and\u00a0a certified poll watcher who runs\u00a0VoterGa.org<\/a>, one of the leading advocates for election integrity in the state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He said the suspect ballots remain in the custody of the election officials and inaccessible from public view.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have confirmed that there are five pallets of shrink-wrapped ballots in a county warehouse,\u201d Favorito said in an interview with RealClearInvestigations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He and other petitioners were ordered to meet at the warehouse May 28 to settle the terms of the inspection of the absentee ballots. But the day before the scheduled meeting, the county filed a flurry of motions to dismiss the case, delaying the inspection indefinitely.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will be in court on June 21 to resolve these motions,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>said Favorito, calling them another \u201croadblock\u201d the county has tried to throw in their way. He expects talks over the logistics of the inspection to resume after the Fourth of July holiday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As part of his May 21 order, Superior Court Judge Brian Amero requested officials guard the warehouse around the clock until an inspection date can be set. But just eight days later, a breach in security was reported after sheriff\u2019s deputies left their post for a couple of hours.<\/p>\n \u201cThe front door was [found] unlocked and wide open in violation of the court order,\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Favorito said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n County officials\u00a0confirmed<\/a>\u00a0that a motion-detection alarm was triggered Saturday, May 29, shortly after the deputies drove away from the building in\u00a0their patrol cars around 4 p.m. But they said a locked room where the ballots are kept \u201cwas never breached or compromised.\u201d<\/p>\n Favorito is not convinced, and his lawyer is seeking to obtain the video footage from building security cameras. \u201cHow do we know for certain there was no tampering with the ballots?\u201d asked Favorito, who said he did not vote for Trump. News of the security lapse caught the attention of former President Trump, who has claimed his loss to Biden was marred by fraud. In a\u00a0statement<\/a>, he\u00a0implied election officials in the Democratic-controlled county are trying to hide evidence of fraud.<\/p>\n “They are afraid of what might be found,\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0he asserted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Trump is also closely monitoring the ongoing election audit in Arizona, another red state that turned blue in 2020. If evidence of fraud is\u00a0found in these key swing states, it might help confirm suspicions the election was \u201cstolen” from Trump and the 74 million who voted for him — as a\u00a0recent\u00a0poll<\/a>\u00a0found 61% of Republicans believe —\u00a0as well as\u00a0provide the proof of voter fraud that Democrats and major media have long claimed doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n The cases could potentially give other battleground states incentive to take steps to tighten election security and root out fraud, including passing legislation to limit the use of controversial mail-in drop boxes and require the verification of signatures on such ballots. In Georgia, relatively few\u00a0mail-in ballots were rejected for invalid signatures in the November general election, even though several thousand had been disqualified for signature issues in the primary election.<\/p>\n In a move that inspired national boycotts alleging voter “suppression,” Georgia recently passed a law limiting, but not removing, the drop boxes. The state had installed them for the first time in 2020 under pressure from Democratic groups, who argued officials needed to make voting easier for minorities who didn\u2019t trust the mail and feared going to the polls during the COVID scare.<\/p>\n The 38 drop boxes Fulton distributed throughout the county in the November election will be cut to eight in the future. The boxes had\u00a0been largely unregulated and unattended \u2014 located outdoors, open 24 hours a day and available for drop-offs until the evening of Election Day, prompting\u00a0complaints of ballot stuffing and double voting.\u00a0<\/strong>But now they have to be located inside election offices or\u00a0early voting locations, and can only be\u00a0available during the hours when early voting is permitted. The new law also requires ballots be printed on special security paper.<\/p>\n Voting by mail traditionally was limited to voters who had clearly defined and well-documented reasons to be absent from the polls. But Democrats in\u00a0key swing states lobbied to relax the rules in the middle of the election and amid the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n Mail-in or drop-off ballots create opportunities for voter error and fraud. In a typical election, one in 20 mailed ballots are rejected, according to recent studies. More than 534,000 mail-in ballots were rejected during the 2020 Democratic primaries alone.<\/p>\n Still, both Republican and Democratic officials in Georgia say they have found no credible evidence of widespread fraud in the general election. Democrats, as well as many major media outlets, have written off Favorito\u2019s group’s allegations of fraud as \u201cconspiracy theories.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is nothing more than a circus that\u2019s being put on by those who promote the \u2018big lie\u2019 \u201d<\/strong>\u00a0that Trump won the election, said Robb Pitts, the Democratic chairman of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners.<\/p>\n \u201cWhere does it end? The votes have been counted. The elections have been certified. It\u2019s over.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Pitts effectively controls the county elections board through his Democratic appointee Mary Carole Cooney, who runs the board. They are in charge\u00a0of securing the pallets of disputed Biden mail-in ballots awaiting inspection in the county warehouse.<\/p>\n But Judge Amero, who federal elections records show is a Democratic donor, felt compelled to unseal the ballots for a forensics review after reading\u00a0the sworn\u00a0affidavits<\/a>\u00a0submitted by election monitors. Here are key witnesses in the case:<\/strong><\/p>\n Suzi Voyles<\/strong><\/u>, a veteran Fulton poll manager who audited the Nov. 14 recount at Georgia World Congress Center,\u00a0testified<\/a>\u00a0she examined several\u00a0stacks of ballots of about 100 ballots each from a cardboard box marked \u201cBox No. 5 \u2014 Absentee \u2014 Batch Numbers 28-36.\u201d She said these ballots\u00a0\u201ccame from the ballot [drop] boxes that had been placed throughout Fulton County.\u201d<\/p>\n “Most of the ballots had already been handled; they had been written on by people, and the edges were worn. They showed obvious use,\u201d she wrote in her Nov. 17 affidavit. “However, one batch stood out. It was pristine. There was a difference in the texture of the<\/a>\u00a0paper,\u201d and these mail-in ballots\u00a0hadn\u2019t been folded even though they ostensibly had been removed from envelopes.<\/p>\n All but three of the 110 ballots in the bundle \u2014 which had been labeled \u201cState Farm Arena\u201d \u2014 were marked for Biden and appeared to be \u201cidentical\u00a0ballots.”<\/p>\n The most \u201calarming peculiarity\u201d was the identically marked ovals next to Biden\u2019s name. In every ballot, \u201cThe bubble next to \u2018Joseph R. Biden\u2019 had a\u00a0slight white eclipse in the bubble,\u201d she said, leading her to believe that the batch of 107 Biden ballots had been \u201ccopied” from a single ballot.<\/p>\n Voyles speculated that \u201cadditional absentee ballots had been added [for Biden] in a fraudulent manner\u201d at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta on\u00a0election night.<\/p>\n The void she and other auditors witnessed in the exact same spot of the oval filled in on 107 ballots for Biden \u201cwas alarming to us,\u201d Voyles said in an\u00a0RCI interview. \u201cEvery single bubble was precisely alike. I had never seen that before in 20 years\u201d of election monitoring.<\/p>\n But when she and other recount workers raised concerns with county election officials, \u201cwe were told not to worry about it,\u201d she said. \u201cThey seemed\u00a0uninterested in the [integrity of the] ballots.\u201d<\/p>\n After Voyles later blew the whistle in affidavits and state election hearings, she was fired as a poll manager by the Fulton County Department of Elections. \u201cI got the boot for speaking the truth,\u201d she told RCI.<\/p>\n Robin Hall<\/strong><\/u>, a certified Fulton County recount observer, also\u00a0testified<\/a>\u00a0she witnessed a number of boxes of absentee ballots marked \u201c100% for Biden\u201d that appeared to be \u201cperfectly filled out as if they were pre-printed with the presidential candidate selected.\u201d She stated: \u201cThey did not look like a person had filled this out at home. \u00a0All of them looked alike.”<\/p>\n Judy Aube<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0also worked at the World Congress Center on Nov. 14 where she\u00a0observed<\/a>\u00a0the same thing: \u201csuspicious batches” of mail-in ballots for Biden whose markings appeared identical, as if they had been duplicated by a machine and not filled out by a voter at home.<\/p>\n Barbara Hartman<\/strong><\/u>, another election official auditor, also doubted the authenticity of absentee ballots she handled that she said were never folded, as would normally be the case for ballots returned in an envelope by mail or dropped in a box. \u201cThe absentee ballots looked as though they had just come from a fresh stack,\u201d\u00a0she swore in her\u00a0affidavit<\/a>. “I could not observe any creases in the ballots and [it] did not seem like they were folded and put into envelopes or mailed out.\u201d\u00a0 Also, \u201cThe majority of the mail-in ballots that I reviewed contained suspicious black perfectly bubbled markings for Biden,\u201d Hartman stated, adding that \u201cthey looked as if they were stamped.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The veteran poll watchers found no plausible explanation for the anomalies other than possible fraud.<\/strong><\/p>\n However, election officials have offered an explanation for why the mail-in ballots examined in the stacks did not have folds or creases. They say\u00a0ballots are sometimes copied onto other paper when they are too damaged to be fed through one of the scanning machines during tabulation. The\u00a0mailed ballots can be torn or crumpled by postal workers during delivery or by poll workers while opening them and removing them from envelopes,\u00a0which could prevent the machines from reading them.<\/p>\n From controversial video at State Farm Arena, Atlanta, showing ballots being pulled from under tables.\u00a0WSB-TV\/YouTube<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n But Favorito suspects the hundreds, if not thousands, of allegedly duplicate absentee ballots for Biden might be connected to spikes in votes for Biden he observed late on election night in Fulton County after election officials cleared monitors from State Farm Arena and pulled cases full of ballots out from under tables and began scanning them.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s always the chance it was an inside job,\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0said Favorito,\u00a0a career IT professional who’s been a leading advocate for Georgia election integrity\u00a0over the past two decades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n On Nov. 3, Fulton County elections officials informed monitors that they were shutting down the State Farm tabulation center before midnight, only to continue counting throughout the night while no one was watching.<\/p>\n \u201cElection workers don\u2019t bring ballots in after the supervisor has delayed processing\u00a0until\u00a0the morning, hide them under a table and then bring them out\u00a0for scanning and tabulation after the supervisor tells\u00a0[monitors]\u00a0they are done scanning for the evening and they go home,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>Favorito said.<\/p>\n \u201cOnce scanning\u00a0[was]\u00a0completed, an election line feed showed an unprecedented vote spike that turned the election in favor of Biden,\u201d he added. In fact, \u201cjust over a half hour after workers scanned the potentially fraudulent ballots, an election line feed showed a 100,000-plus vote spike for Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhere did those ballots come from and why did they handle them so suspiciously?\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Favorito asked.<\/p>\n Voyles noted that the county elections supervisor who oversaw the secret scanning of the cases full of ballots also helps run the warehouse where the suspect ballots are being stored.<\/p>\n Phone calls and emails to Fulton County went unanswered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Favorito pointed out that the potential for counterfeit ballots exists in other Georgia counties, not just Fulton.<\/p>\n In fact, two Democrat poll workers blew the whistle on similar anomalies they witnessed in\u00a0neighboring DeKalb and Cobb counties, where the election\u00a0process also is controlled by Democrats.<\/strong><\/p>\n Carlos E. Silva, for one, declared in a Nov. 17 affidavit that he observed a similar “perfect black bubble\u201d in absentee ballots for Biden during the recount he worked in DeKalb County. And while overseeing the Cobb County recount, he swore he \u201cobserved absentee ballots being reviewed with the same perfect bubble that I had seen the night before in DeKalb. All of these ballots had the same characteristics: they were all for Biden and had the same perfect bubble.\u201d<\/p>\n Added Silva, a registered Democrat: \u201cThere were thousands of [mail-in] ballots that just had the perfect bubble marked for Biden and no other markings in the rest of the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n Another registered Democrat, Mayra Romera, testified that while monitoring the Cobb County recount, she noticed that \u201chundreds of these ballots\u00a0seemed impeccable, with no folds or creases. The bubble selections were perfectly made … and all happened to be selections for Biden.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/545185_6_.jpg?itok=IQVkzqoj\")
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