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The Georgia 2020 election audit continues to play out like a Netflix miniseries, ripe with twists, turns, and a whole lot of fraud. On Friday, Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero ordered the unsealing of 147,000 Fulton County, Georgia, absentee ballots.
“The integrity of future elections is critical, and Judge Amero’s decision is a helpful step in restoring transparency, accountability, and voter confidence,” former Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) told The Hill.
Judge Amero’s announcement “forces Georgia’s largest county to allow a group of Georgia voters and their experts to inspect copies of 147,000 mail-in ballots cast in light of their evidence-challenged claims that the ballots were fraudulent.”
Former President Donald Trump lost the state’s most populated county in November to Democrat Joe Biden by a vote of 381,144 to 137,240, with a 65.57% voter turnout, according to Fulton County’s official results.
Trump lost the state by around 13,000 total votes.
Fulton County includes the city of Atlanta and has an estimated population of just over 1 million, according to the county.
In his one-page order, Amero’s order said the county election officials must allow plaintiff Garland Favorito and his group called Voters Organized for Trusted Election Results in Georgia to review the ballots “at a time and place to be determined later,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
The county said in a statement it would comply with the order. “We will continue to participate the judicial process that will ultimately validate the integrity of the elections process within Fulton County,” the statement said.
Georgia now joins Arizona in having votes audited because of lawsuits following the election.
An audit of the populous Maricopa County is currently underway by a private Florida firm called Cyber Ninjas, hired by Republicans for $150,000.
Like Fulton County in Georgia, Maricopa County in Arizona is the state’s largest county by population and includes the city of Phoenix.
Trump lost that county to Biden 1,040,774-995,665 with 80.5% turnout of its 2,595,272 registered voters, according to the county.
Early voting accounted for 73.81% of the total votes cast in November.
Statewide, Trump lost the election by just over 10,000 votes, 1,672,143-1,661,686, according to the state.
The audit in Arizona is expected to last for another six weeks, as the firm reviews 2.1 million ballots.
The Arizona audit created a firestorm when Cyber Ninjas initially accused the county of “deleting data,” that they later said they found through recovery efforts. Elections officials said the data was never deleted and accused the firm of incompetence if it was unable to find it.
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The Georgia 2020 election audit continues to play out like a Netflix miniseries, ripe with twists, turns, and a whole lot of fraud. On Friday, Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero ordered the unsealing of 147,000 Fulton County, Georgia, absentee ballots.
“The integrity of future elections is critical, and Judge Amero’s decision is a helpful step in restoring transparency, accountability, and voter confidence,” former Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) told The Hill.
Judge Amero’s announcement “forces Georgia’s largest county to allow a group of Georgia voters and their experts to inspect copies of 147,000 mail-in ballots cast in light of their evidence-challenged claims that the ballots were fraudulent.”
Former President Donald Trump lost the state’s most populated county in November to Democrat Joe Biden by a vote of 381,144 to 137,240, with a 65.57% voter turnout, according to Fulton County’s official results.
Trump lost the state by around 13,000 total votes.
Fulton County includes the city of Atlanta and has an estimated population of just over 1 million, according to the county.
In his one-page order, Amero’s order said the county election officials must allow plaintiff Garland Favorito and his group called Voters Organized for Trusted Election Results in Georgia to review the ballots “at a time and place to be determined later,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
The county said in a statement it would comply with the order. “We will continue to participate the judicial process that will ultimately validate the integrity of the elections process within Fulton County,” the statement said.
Georgia now joins Arizona in having votes audited because of lawsuits following the election.
An audit of the populous Maricopa County is currently underway by a private Florida firm called Cyber Ninjas, hired by Republicans for $150,000.
Like Fulton County in Georgia, Maricopa County in Arizona is the state’s largest county by population and includes the city of Phoenix.
Trump lost that county to Biden 1,040,774-995,665 with 80.5% turnout of its 2,595,272 registered voters, according to the county.
Early voting accounted for 73.81% of the total votes cast in November.
Statewide, Trump lost the election by just over 10,000 votes, 1,672,143-1,661,686, according to the state.
The audit in Arizona is expected to last for another six weeks, as the firm reviews 2.1 million ballots.
The Arizona audit created a firestorm when Cyber Ninjas initially accused the county of “deleting data,” that they later said they found through recovery efforts. Elections officials said the data was never deleted and accused the firm of incompetence if it was unable to find it.