Ah yes, the legendary 2020 Georgia election: simultaneously the most scrutinized election in American history and, according to some people, the greatest criminal conspiracy ever assembled, somehow capable of fooling Republican election officials, Democratic election officials, multiple recounts, a statewide hand audit, courts, investigators, and years of scrutiny while leaving behind a trail of clues that Facebook commenters are apparently still solving.
Let's go claim by claim.
"It is known that procedures were not followed correctly."
Some procedures were not followed correctly in Fulton County during portions of the audit process. State investigators found errors and reprimanded the county. They also concluded those errors were the result of human mistakes, not intentional fraud, and did not affect the election outcome. The original machine count, hand audit, and recount all reached essentially the same result.
"Thousands of ballots were scanned twice."
This claim mixes together different counting processes. Investigators found double-counting problems in portions of the Fulton County audit, but those were audit errors, not evidence that the certified election results were inflated by thousands of fraudulent votes. Georgia's statewide hand audit and recount still confirmed Biden's victory.
Also, "I found an error in a recount" is not the same thing as "I overturned an election."
"DNA from all workers may determine who did it."
Unless someone is proposing an episode of CSI: Ballot Warehouse, this is a joke.
First, investigators attributed the counting issues they found to human error and training problems, not a secret criminal conspiracy.
Second, let's think this through. The election happened in November 2020. Since then, the ballots and related materials have been handled, stored, audited, recounted, reviewed by investigators, examined by attorneys, and endlessly discussed by people convinced they're one YouTube video away from cracking the case.
So what exactly would a DNA test prove?
That somebody touched a ballot?
Election workers are, rather awkwardly for this theory, supposed to touch ballots.
Finding a worker's DNA on election materials would be about as surprising as finding a chef's fingerprints in a restaurant kitchen or a mechanic's fingerprints under the hood of a car.
More fundamentally, the claim skips past the most important fact: there is no identified crime to solve. Investigations found audit errors, but not evidence that the election result was altered.
And even if someone insists there were paperwork problems, Georgia ultimately conducted a full hand count of roughly 5 million paper ballots. The hand audit and subsequent recount confirmed the same winner.
"It is known the proper zero procedure were not followed. Missing tapes and signatures."
Missing tapes, missing signatures, or failures to follow opening and closing procedures are legitimate process problems. Election officials should absolutely document everything correctly.
But here's the problem with treating this as evidence the 2020 result was wrong: Georgia didn't just rely on the machine records. It conducted a full hand count of roughly 5 million paper ballots in the presidential race. That statewide manual audit reaffirmed that Joe Biden won Georgia, and a subsequent machine recount reached essentially the same conclusion.
So even if some paperwork was sloppy, the existence of the actual paper ballots meant officials could go back and count the votes directly by hand. The hand count was effectively the election equivalent of saying, "Forget arguing over the receipt, let's count the cash in the register."
Missing documentation may show poor administration. It does not show that the reported winner was wrong when the ballots themselves were later manually recounted statewide and produced the same winner.
"It is known that thousand of people who moved out of the county voted in the election."
This is one of those claims that sounds dramatic until someone asks for evidence. Courts, state officials, and multiple reviews did not find enough illegal votes to come anywhere near changing Georgia's margin, which was nearly 12,000 votes. Georgia's results were confirmed through multiple counts.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Not forwarded Facebook posts.
"It is known the election equipment is insecure can be hacked with a ball point pen."
Here there is a kernel of truth being stretched until it squeaks. Security researcher J. Alex Halderman demonstrated vulnerabilities in Georgia's voting equipment in federal court. Those vulnerabilities are real and should be addressed. However, he also stated there is no evidence those vulnerabilities were actually exploited in the 2020 election.
That's the difference between:
- "This bank vault design has a weakness."
- "Therefore someone robbed the bank."
One does prove the other.
"It is known that the QR codes don't necessary match the human readable."
Election security experts have criticized QR-code voting systems because voters cannot independently verify what the QR code contains. That's a real transparency concern. However, concern about system design is not evidence that QR codes actually changed votes in the 2020 election.
Think of it as an argument for better seatbelts, not proof there was a car crash.
"It is known the currently installed operating system is no longer supported and not secure."
Security experts have identified vulnerabilities and recommended updates. That's a legitimate security issue. But "needs patching" is not the same thing as "the election was stolen."
Every IT professional on earth just nodded so hard they strained their neck.
"If liberals insist there are no problem and fight election security, only the worse outcome for the country is possible."
That's a false choice.
You can support stronger election security, better procedures, updated software, improved audits, paper ballots, better chain-of-custody documentation, and rigorous oversight while also rejecting unsupported claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
In fact, some of the most prominent critics of Georgia's voting systems were election-security advocates who were not conservatives at all.
The adult position is:
"Fix vulnerabilities. Improve procedures. Follow the evidence."
Not:
"I found a loose screw in the airplane, therefore the plane definitely crashed."
Bottom line:
Georgia's election process was not perfect. Errors, procedural violations, and security
concerns have been documented and should be addressed. But after a machine count, a statewide hand count of roughly 5 million ballots, a recount, court cases, and years of investigation, no evidence has emerged showing enough fraudulent or illegitimate votes to overturn the result.
Or, to summarize the entire argument:
"We've got audit mistakes, paperwork problems, hypothetical security vulnerabilities, missing signatures, unsupported allegations, and DNA on ballots handled six years ago....therefore Trump won."
That's an impressive collection of complaints.
What's missing is the part where any of it changes the outcome of an election that was counted by machine, counted by hand, recounted by machine, investigated for years, and still produced the same winner every single time. 😏
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