The FBI’s Jan. 28 raid on Fulton County, Georgia, election offices was sorely needed. It should have happened in 2020.
Americans should be proud of this country but ashamed of its Fourth World voting system. While Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has modernized Florida’s elections, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has light years to go before Georgians can feel equally confident about its votes.
Greater Atlanta is the black hole in which election integrity goes to die.
“Fulton County’s voter rolls are, have been, and continue to be a complete mess,” Republican state Sen. Greg Dolezal says in a jaw-dropping new video on X. In the Peach State, “it is illegal to be registered to vote from anywhere other than your primary residence.”
As of Jan. 5, “about 70 people are registered to vote right here,” Dolezal marvels at a UPS Store.
Dolezal visits 850 Oak Street. “There are 19 people registered to vote at this abandoned house,” he explains. Its windows are broken or boarded up. A brown and green blob of weeds and ivy slowly devours the front porch. Nineteen people do not live there. Nonetheless, that’s where they are registered to vote.
Next: 1445 Woodmont Lane. Dolezal says that “138 people registered to vote here”—a virtual-mailbox enterprise called PhysicalAddress.com.
“This is 477 Peachtree Street,” Dolezal states. “There are 70 people registered to vote here. It’s a homeless shelter that closed in 2017”—approaching nine years ago.
At 2625 Piedmont Street, Dolezal observes: “Another UPS Store—96 registered voters here, in direct violation of Georgia law.”
Such corruption should be alien to the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. Yet here it is, in a mid-term election year, with Sen. Jon Ossoff’s, D-Ga., seat at stake and the GOP’s emaciated majority in play. Control of Congress could hinge on “voters” enrolled at homes populated solely by termites.
The FBI absolutely should probe the perpetrators behind political lawbreaking. During the 2020 election, Fulton County was a full-blown crime scene.
The Election Oversight Group LLC last month released a shocking document—“Fulton County: Report of Investigation of the 2020 General Election.”
— “According to Fulton County and the State’s own records, 148,319 absentee ballots were counted for the 2020 General Election, but only 125,784 voters were recorded as casting ballots. Therefore, 22,535 more ballots were counted than voters given credit for voting.” That’s right: 22,535 more ballots than voters. That’s called stuffing ballots. If Joe Biden scored just 52.2% of these phony ballots, that would equal his statewide 11,769-vote “margin of victory.”
— “It’s important to note that the number of absentee ballots literally doubled from midnight on Election Day, with 74,024 ballots reported,” the study states. “All 148,318 absentee ballots were accepted and counted without first performing mandatory signature verification.”
— “Of all 376,863 ballots cast in-person (early voting and election day) every corresponding ballot image was willfully destroyed in violation of both state and federal law.”
— “Thousands of ballots appear in the original November 3rd count that were not included in the recount, and thousands of ballots appear in the recount that were not in the original count.”
— “Also, 3,930 ballots were intentionally scanned and counted twice.”
— “Fulton County ordered 1,058,910 absentee ballots at the last minute, without envelopes, without stubs, and after they could have realistically been mailed.” This baffled current Fulton County Commissioner Bridget Thorne. “Why would you order Emergency/Provisional ballots without the tear-off stubs that are needed for record keeping?” she asked via X on Nov. 10, 2021. “Dangerous, no accountability.”
— “According to the Election Assistance Commission (‘EAC’) Fulton County’s total number of registered voters for 2020 was 836,563, or 113.8 percent of the Citizen Voting Age Population (‘CVAP’): 1,058,910 ballots are 126% of the total number of registered voters in Fulton County.”
Why didn’t a court address these outrages? National Review’s John Fund, co-author of “Our Broken Elections” (Encounter Books, 2021), blamed “a successful effort to delay any judge from hearing lawsuits challenging the results until Congress counted the Electoral College votes, and the issue was moot.”
President Donald Trump and the GOP should ignore Democrat screams and battle past, current, and future vote fraud and the putrid conditions in which it festers. They should start by comparing voter rolls with property records, from coast to coast, and purging illegal addresses and corresponding vote registrations.
Fulton County may be the first place the FBI has raided to promote electoral hygiene. It should not be the last.
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